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CORRECTION-Berkeley March Against War & Racism - Sept. 18th (photos)
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9-18-01
Berkeley, CA USA
Rally & March against War & Racism
1,000 people rallied at the Berkeley Bart station - hundreds marched through Berkeley.
Larger / higher resolution versions of these photos are available to those working against war & racism. Contact: Brian Marsh at subbrian3 [at] yahoo.com
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I am sure your tune would change if one of the dead was someone you knew and loved dearly. How dare you protest against the most heinous act ever against are home land. If we do not strike back, we will be viewed as COWARDS and PUSHOVERS!!
What should we do? Let these animals scare us and run wild in our streets? If you feel that way, maybe you should move to Afghanistan!!
UNITED WE STAND!!!
It's very easy to call people who do awful things to other people "animals", and it's very easy to assume that because they dislike us, they must be fundamentally different from us, opposed totally and completely to our way of life. This is not to say that we are the same as Islamic fundamentalists, no way! Nevertheless, we must be able to see how easily vilified Americans are to others around the world, when all they see of us are the bullets and bombs we send to kill them. (i.e. the U.S.-financed atrocities in places like Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E., U.S.-trained militias slaughtering Lebanese refugee camps, and the financed abuses all over Central America.) We definitely need to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice, but we also need to put some justice into our foreign policy to prevent some justified anti-U.S. sentiment from balooning into terrorism through the catalyst of religious extremism. Let's have less talk about other people as animals, less talk of outrage over only American deaths, and more outrage about the deaths of innocent people all over the world. Together we can make it so that happenings like September 11th will never be repeated, not just to Americans or Westerners or the "civilized" countries, but to any innocent civilians in any country, Third or First World.