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DESCRIPTION:Women, including mothers and grandmothers, will continue our protest 
 outside CNN.  The new war depends on the media trumpeting the governments 
 lies and hiding the truth.  We are targeting CNN (Censored News Network) 
 because:\nCNN refused to show images of the dead and wounded victims of the 
 bombing in Afghanistan.  Their lives are dismissed as "collateral damage", 
 but they are no less valuable than those who died on S11.\n\nIt also 
 censors news of the massive opposition to the war in every country -- 
 including in the US.\n\nCNN is the main TV news internationally. 
 \n\nInstead of broadcasting the truth, CNN along with most of the US media, 
 repeat the government's propaganda, which originates from the board rooms 
 of Texas oil companies.  Most of the US remain unintormed and misinformed 
 about the role of the military in enforcing policies which benefit not them 
 but US corporations and have cost the lives of millions around the world.  
 From Afghanistan, where the US funded and backed the Taliban regime it is 
 not attacking , to Palestine, Iraq, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, panama, 
 Indonesia, Turkey, Mozambique...and of course Vietnam and Korea -- the list 
 is endless.  The message the US sends is that the poorest people are 
 disposable. \n\nAnd what is the "american way of life"?  While a tiny 
 minority are obscenely rich, millions of us have no access to health care, 
 inner city communities have infant mortality rates as high as Bangladesh, 
 the prison population is the biggest in the world, there are frequent mass 
 killings from Oklahoma to shooting in schools and other public places, etc. 
 \n\nWomen and children are the majority of those killed and wounded in 
 armed conflicts worldwide and 80% are refugees.  Women invest our lives 
 into children who are used as canon fodder for the military.  In peace and 
 war, women are the ones whose work maintains community and life itself.  We 
 are demanding the government INVEST IN CARING NOT KILLING, and that welfare 
 be funded from the military budget.  While the government lavishes obscene 
 amounts of money to bomb people abroad, it can find no money to feel women 
 and children at home who are going hungry and lack housing.  Welfare 
 "reform" cuts are throwing thousands of welfare moms into destitution, 
 prostitution and homelessness.  This is the american way of life CNN is not 
 showing.  Nor does CNN tell us that poverty in the US forces those with no 
 income into the armed forces, which are now 60% people of color. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/3263.php
SUMMARY:Women's Action & Speakout at CNN against war & war-propaganda
LOCATION:No Life is collateral damage! Invest in Caring Not Killing!\n50 California 
 (near Market)\nSan Francisco\nAll Welcome!!\n\n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/3263.php
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