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DESCRIPTION:The new war depends on the media trumpeting the government's lies and 
 hiding the truth.  We are targeting CNN because:\n-CNN has refused to show 
 images of the dead and wounded, victims of the bombing in Afghanistan.  
 Their lives are dismiss3ed as "collateral damage", but they are no less 
 valuable than those who died on Sept 11.  Their mothers and other loved 
 ones also grieve and seek justice.  \n\n-It also censors news of the 
 massive opposition to the war in every country --including in the 
 US.\n\n-CNN is the main TV news internationally.\n\nCNN has marketed the 
 government's response to September 11th as "America's new war" as though we 
 should be proud of it.  While the people of Afghanistan are bombarded with 
 missiles, we are bombarded with figures that supposedly prove the US 
 supports the war.  In fact, many of us, including relatives of those who 
 died on Sept 11th, have been saying "Not in Our Name!.  But our protests 
 are given no coverage.  \n\nInstead of broadcasting the truth, CNN along 
 with most of the uS media, repeated the governments propaganda, which 
 originates from the board rooms of Texas oil companies.  Most of the US 
 remain uninformed 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 now 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 poorest peple are disposable. \n\nAnd what is 
 this "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 killiings from Oklahoma to 
 shootings in schools and other public places,etc. \n\nWhy women are 
 protesting: Women 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.  
 \n\nWhile the government lavishes obscene amounts of money to bomb people 
 abroad, it can find no money to feed women and children at home who are 
 going hungry and lack housing.  Welfare "reform" cuts are throwing thousand 
 os welfare moms into destitution, prostitution and homelesness.  This is 
 the American way of life CNN in not showing.  Nor does CNN tell us that 
 poverty in the US foirces those with no income into the army, which is now 
 60% people of color.   \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/963.php
SUMMARY:Invest in Caring, Not Killing
LOCATION:No life is "collateral damage"\nAnti-war picket outside CNN\n50 California 
 (nr Market)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/963.php
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