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DESCRIPTION:Protest and Speak Out! \n\nThe first protest of U.S. occupations in the 
 Middle East\nafter the election of president-elect Obama will take 
 place\ntoday in San Francisco.\n\nOnly YOU Can Stop the Crimes of Your 
 Government!\n\nThe crimes of your government are so deeply shocking that 
 huge numbers of people in the U.S. want to put the hated Bush years behind. 
 We must stop these crimes.   \n\nYOUR GOVERNMENT, on the basis of 
 outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in 
 Iraq, with other countries in its sights. \nYOUR GOVERNMENT is openly 
 torturing people, and justifying it. \nYOUR GOVERNMENT puts people in jail 
 on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them 
 indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night. \nYOUR GOVERNMENT is 
 moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of 
 Christian fundamentalism will rule. \nYOUR GOVERNMENT suppresses the 
 science that doesn't fit its religious, political and economic agenda, 
 forcing present and future generations to pay a terrible price. \nYOUR 
 GOVERNMENT is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right 
 to birth control and abortion. \nYOUR GOVERNMENT enforces a culture of 
 greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance.\n\n\nBut we can't vote them 
 away. \n\nObama IS PRO-WAR! He voted, as recently as June 2008, and every 
 time he could, to fund the war in Iraq; 50-80,000 troops there until at 
 least 2013, and plans to increase the size of the U.S. military by 92,000 
 troops. He says "We need more troops, more helicopters, better 
 intelligence-gathering and more nonmilitary assistance to accomplish the 
 mission" in Afghanistan, where the U.S. military has regularly killed 
 scores of civilians.  Obama suggested that Bush launch missile strikes 
 inside Pakistan, which Bush began secretly in July, killing scores of 
 civilians.  Obama threatens Iran with "all options" (including nukes). 
 \n\nIS FOR POLICE STATE SPYING! Voted for Bush's FISA spying bill which 
 gave immunity to those who broke the law, and allows more government spying 
 than Bush even asked for. \n\nIS FOR RESTRICTING, NOT DEFENDING, WOMEN'S 
 RIGHT TO ABORTION! He will expand Bush's faith-based programs. Obama seeks 
 "common ground" with religious fanatics who want to criminalize abortion 
 and birth control.  \n\nOnly you - not your government - can bring any of 
 this to a halt. If you want these crimes to end, don't put your hopes in 
 empty promises of "change." The whole world hopes to see the people in the 
 U.S. break out of the killing confines of official politics and take things 
 in a radically different direction.\n\nWe need an increasingly visible, 
 independent political force of RESISTANCE, PROTEST, and ACTS of CONSCIENCE 
 that people can join with and persevere with until this whole direction is 
 stopped. \n\nThere is such a movement, but it's not big enough. The World 
 Can't Wait! For the past three years, we have been resisting the fascist 
 program of our government, and no matter who wins, we are not going away 
 after the election!\n\nPeople of conscience must take responsibility for 
 what their own governments do.  Step UP as someone who won't allow these 
 crimes.  Stop thinking like an American, and start thinking like a human 
 being!\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/11/05/18549096.php
SUMMARY:"The Day After"
LOCATION:Powell and Market Streets
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/11/05/18549096.php
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