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DESCRIPTION:Stop the Machine! Create a New World!\n\nA Call to Action - Oct. 6, 2011 
 and onward\n\nOctober 2011 is the 10th anniversary of the invasion of 
 Afghanistan and the beginning of the 2012 federal austerity budget. It is 
 time to light the spark that sets off a true democratic, nonviolent 
 transition to a world in which people are freed to create just and 
 sustainable solutions.\n\nWe call on people of conscience and courage—all 
 who seek peace, economic justice, human rights and a healthy 
 environment—to join together in Washington, D.C., beginning on Oct. 6, 
 2011, in nonviolent resistance similar to the Arab Spring and the Midwest 
 awakening.\n\nA concert, rally and protest will kick off a powerful and 
 sustained nonviolent resistance to the corporate criminals that dominate 
 our government.\n\nForty-seven years ago, Mario Savio, an activist student 
 at Berkeley, said, "There's a time when the operation of the machine 
 becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. 
 You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon 
 the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and 
 you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who 
 run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will 
 be prevented from working at all."\n\nThose words have an even greater 
 urgency today. We face ongoing wars and massive socio-economic and 
 environmental destruction perpetrated by a corporate empire which is 
 oppressing, occupying and exploiting the world. We are on a fast track to 
 making the planet unlivable while the middle class and poor people of our 
 country are undergoing the most wrenching and profound economic crisis in 
 80 years.\n\n"Stop the Machine! • Create a New World!" is a clarion call 
 for all who are deeply concerned with injustice, militarism and 
 environmental destruction to join in ending concentrated corporate power 
 and taking direct control of a real participatory democracy. We will 
 encourage a culture of resistance—using music, art, theater and direct 
 nonviolent action—to take control of our country and our lives. It is 
 about courageously resisting and stopping the corporate state from 
 destroying not only our inherent rights and freedoms, but also our 
 children’s chance to live, breathe clean air, drink pure water, grow 
 edible natural food and live in peace.\n\nAs Mother Jones said, "Someday 
 the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no 
 child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!"\n\nWe are the ones who 
 can create a new and just world. Our issues are connected. We are 
 connected. Join us in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 6, 2011, to Stop the 
 Machine.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/09/09/18689820.php
SUMMARY:HUMAN NEEDS, NOT CORPORATE GREED - month-long protest encampment in D.C.
LOCATION:Freedom Plaza\n13th St and Pennsylvania Ave., NW\nWashington, D.C.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/09/09/18689820.php
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