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The Drone Wars Cometh by Mumia Abu-Jamal

by Mumia Abu-Jamal
"In Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in the Federated Territories (bordering both countries), in Yemen, in Somalia the drone wars reign, silent, computerized death from the skies, killing `suspects', their clansmen, families and neighbors."
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The Drone Wars Cometh

[col. writ. 6/1/12] © '12 Mumia Abu-Jamal

For millions of people, who groaned under the gross, lumbering stupidity of the Bush years, the advent of the Obama administration seemed like the rising of a sweet springtime sun after storms of bleak chaos.

Who knew that the rise of Barack H. Obama would echo, in some ways, the Bush years?

Bush reveled in war, and boasted of being a `War President.'

Obama, by contrast, seldom speaks of war, never brags of it, and wages it with an intensity that can only be called chilling.

According to a recent New York Times article, Obama has become a secret warrior, unleashing drone attacks on suspected (!) enemies of the State at a rate that would have dizzied his bellicose predecessor, George W. Bush.

In Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in the Federated Territories (bordering both countries), in Yemen, in Somalia the drone wars reign, silent, computerized death from the skies, killing `suspects', their clansmen, families and neighbors.

The wonder is that anyone could claim surprise, for Obama said exactly what he would do –attack terrorist suspects no matter where they were; and capture or kill Osama bin Laden.

His giddy supporters, so sick of Bush's clumsiness and malapropisms, ignored Obama's promises, or pretended not to hear them.

But Obama at war is more martial that Bush, more technological, more targeted – and less oral.

One wag, offered the view that Obama was Bush on steroids—quieter, more aggressive, more ruthless.

And that – albeit unwittingly—is the world we voted for.

--© '12 maj


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Mumia Abu-Jama is a political prisoner in the United States, for more on his case see:
William Singletary, 65, Courageous Witness of Mumia's Innocence
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/01/12/18704643.php

The Revolutionary Tendency of the Socialist Party (RT-SP) demands freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal and calls for Black Liberation through socialist revolution. For more information on us, see our statement of purpose:
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2012/02/251336.php

Liberation News participated in recent successful demands to move Mumia into the general population. Mumia sent the following message to supporters in call from general population, SCI Mahanoy to his wife, Wadiya Jamal:

My dear friends, brothers and sisters -- I want to thank you for your real hard work and support. I am no longer on death row, no longer in the hole, I'm in population. This is only part one and I thank you all for the work you've done. But the struggle is for freedom! From Mumia and Wadiya, Ona Move. Long Live John Africa! =

For more information on what you can do to work for Mumia’s freedom, see:
http://www.laboractionmumia.org/index.html

For information on Obama's war against Libya, see:
Why We Should Oppose the Imperialist War on Libya
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/03/25/18675579.php?show_comments=1

This article is being distributed by Liberation News, subscribe free:
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by Labor Action Committee
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The Following Forum Is Endorsed By the Revolutionary Tendency of the Socialist Party:

International Labor Defense for Innocent Political Prisoners!

Mumia Abu-Jamal, known as the "voice of the voiceless," was falsely convicted of murder in 1982. Targeted for his anti-racist activities and struggle against police brutality, he is an innocent political prisoner.

Fumiaki Hoshino, an anti-war activist and organizer, was framed because of his activities in the struggle against US bases on Okinawa. Falsely convicted of murder in 1974, he is an innocent political prisoner.

Labor, Mumia, Hoshino and The Lessons For Today

4 pm, Saturday, July 14th, 2012

Sports Basement

1590 Bryant Street, San Francisco

Public transit: exit BART at 16th St, and take the Fillmore 22 bus

Video - West Coast Longshore Workers Shut Down
All West Coast Ports To Free Mumia!
Speakers include:

Jack Heyman,
ILWU (longshore) Local 10 retired, and Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal; a key leader of the 1999 West Coast port shutdown to free Mumia by longshore workers;

Gerald Sanders,
Oscar Grant Committee, former Black Panther, and Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal;

Dan Marlin,
Reprsentative of the Free Hoshino Defense Committee

Shin'ichi Isbii, President Of Japan Railway Union Doro-Mito

Chieko Shinna, Fukushima mother and farmer and founder of Fukushima Committee Against Nuclear Power

Also: Kevin Cooper will deliver a recorded message from San Quentin prison.

This is a free event - donations accepted
Information: 415 282-1908 or 510 763-2347
The growing repression of labor and political activists continues as the “war on terror” is used to silence political dissidents. Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist and former Black Panther, and Fumiaki Hoshino, an anti-war activist, have been jailed for decades in political frame-ups because of their political views and opposition to racism, imperialism, militarization and repression.

This forum will look at both of these cases, the labor movement and the historical role of the International Labor Defense, which was a united front defense committee for working class prisoners in the US. The ILD was set up as a non-partisan body that would defend any member of the working class movement, without regard to personal political views. Any working class activist who came under the thumb of persecution by the capitalist legal system would be supported legally, morally, and financially. It lasted from 1925 to 1946.

Today as legislation is passed that allows the government to arrest even US citizens and to hold them indefinitely without charges and without any constitutional rights the need for a broad working class defense organization is growing.

Sponsors: US Committee To Free Hoshino, and Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu Jamal.
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