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challenging European male patriarchy

by moth
From Cristobal Columbus's genocide against North America's First People to Dictator GW Bush/Cheney's slaughter of Iraqi people and young American soldiers for theft of Iraqi oil, wealthy European male patriarchs are still oppressing people and life on Earth..
When we combine the current abuses against people and ecosystems on a global basis, we need not look far to find a wealthy European white male at the helm steering everyone into war/genocide. From Cristobal Columbus and his massacre of North America's First People to GW Bush and his massacre via military of Iraqi/Afgan and others, the wealthy European male seems bent on destruction/enslavement of others..

We need to look at class also, many footsoldiers of the military are lower income Europeans, Africans and Latinos who are coerced to die for their imperialist masters. Many are in difficult financial/legal situations and given false promises of rewards/forgiveness of debt. Young people just out of high school are influenced to die for their country by mass media propaganda. Racism continues in the military as the front line soldiers die for master GW Bush..

During colonial slavery (Howard Zinn, People's History of U.S.), the European (Irish) indentured servants joined forces with African indentured servants to free themselves from the plantation owner's tyranny. The people were then separated on the basis of race to prevent workers solidarity. Racial segregation is used today against unions and prisoners. Enforced racial segregation in the prison system keeps the population fighting one another in racial gangs while the guards and wardens sit back and laugh..

While so many people are locked up for petty drug offenses, the war criminal GW Bush is still at the helm, steering America into another genocidal nightmare, this time against Arab people, but not limited only to Arabs. The soldiers on the front lines are lower income and predominantly African/Latino/"poor white". The lower the economic/social status of the European, the closer they are put to the front lines. The educated European Americans from good family lineage sit back and make plans. The wealthy Europeans encourage others to fight their battles for them..

..and their shiny SUVs keep burning Iraqi oil..

Africa is still being raped of her diamonds, forests and oil. This is not the USA alone, but France, England, Germany and other EU powerhouses. The former colonizers of Africa have not stopped exploiting her people and environment. The WTO encourages the continuing rape and plunder of Africa under the guise of "free trade". The WTO leaders and DeBeers diamond execs met with CA dictator Arnold Schwarzenegger to discuss their plans. All good Europeans are expected to fall in line and not question the orders from above. To do so would be unpatriotic and risk rejection from the comfortable social circles of Euro-Americans..

..and Israel's apartheid wall around the Palestinian people grows higher with barbed wire..

GW Bush is another replaceable puppet. The oil war under Gore would have taken place in Columbia instead of Iraq as Gore's family fortune is connected to Occidental Petroleum. While Monsanto supplies the Columbian Army (filled by School of the Americas) with glyphosate "Round-up" pesticides to spray over the Putamayo rainforest, they coerce African farmers to give up their organic farms and move to the cities so biotech GMO crops can replace traditional indigenous African farming. With support of WTO and GW Bush's standing US army of global liberation of course..

..monoculture biotech GMO crops replace biodiversity of traditional indigenous farming and lead to famine. When a new mutated plant virus destroys the monoculture GMO crop, all the ex-farmers trapped in the cities will starve along with everyone else when the food runs out. Controlling a population's food source could lead to famine, willful ignorance by Monsanto/biotech of famine risk conditions from GMO crops is GENOCIDE..

..Monsanto's GMO "Bt corn" contains toxins from bacteria Bacillus thuringensis, in the same genus as Bacillus anthracis, commonly known as anthrax. The Bt toxin engineered in the corn is lethal to insects such as the Monarch butterfly larvae who eats the milkweed that the Bt corn pollen lands on..

Monsanto claims "Of course the toxin from Bacillus thuringiensis is not harmful to people."

..well YOU ARE THE EXPERIMENT!!

More prisons in California to house the growing population of American people of all races/nationalities who choose to stand up against the fourth reich dictator team Bush/Schwartzenegger. Can we talk about forced experiments on prisoners of the latest psychiatric chemicals? Fear, surviellence cameras and propaganda are always good tools to keep the population in line..

Genocide against Africans numbered 20 million during the slave trade, and now many descendants are in the military front lines facing ever growing Iraqi anger, not to mention US depleted uranium left in the warzone of Iraq. Those not in the military are sent off to prison for trying to survive in the "drug war". Merrily humming Wagner as he cruises down the I-5 freeway in his HUMvee, Arnold Schwarzenegger is glad that the Iraqi oil is still flowing through the Halliburton pipeline..

..another oil spill kills thousands of sea animals and fossil fuel smog causes children in LA to develop asthma/lung cancer..

..forests are being clearcut by multinational timber corporations and the Earth becomes drier everyday..

..as a European/American male i am sick of my people's continuing racism/classism/genocide and i want to learn how to live on Earth without being oppressive. That comes with recognition that i am living on stolen land called "America" and profiting from African slavery and stolen Iraqi oil. Please join up to end this ongoing oppression of people and life on Earth..

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by J.L.
Well, my opinion is that in this particular moment of the history, we have to do with NOT A PUPPET president of America [Bush] .

Europeans and Gore are OUTSIDE of the game - for the moment.

Bush is the great problem and HE KNEW IT FROM THE FIRST MOMENT he wanted to be president. HE PLANNED all these games with his election and he had the help of his family...

Europe, these days SHOWED and TOLD who is the real terror of the world [in its opinion of course].
ISRAEL and U.S.A.
not
IRAQ

If somebody wants to stop this bad game of wars and deaths, HAS TO STOP BUYING OIL, and all of its products. Can we do it?
Or we like to have some 'bad peple' who do the bad thing in our place?
We can sit at our homes, watch tv and read books, do our works and of course we can complain about the bad situation of Iraq, its people and bad leaders.
Then, tomorrow, we will go to buy oil and IF there is not plenty of it in the market we can complain again for our leaders. Because they HAVE NOT DO THEIR WORK IN THE RIGHT WAY.

This example suits to all the other products.

So, our 'leaders' will do THEIR BEST for us to live in a wonderful world...
by peer review
...is that it's really superficial. until you understand how and why the european discovery happened *as it did*, you're going to keep replicating spectacular misunderstandings like differentiating "latino" from "european" and treating them like races &c. this discredits the point you're trying to make even more than the tired identity-based stuff does.

a modest little example: columbus wasn't rich, that's what he was doing under the spanish flag!!!! go learn some history on your subject... which takes more than reading howard zinn, all due respect-- the euro conquest of the americas wasn't really a people's history now was it? it was a monarchial and church history. it was a *military* history. maybe that's what makes it a people's history? but not to digress.

some more clues: look at the *ethnic cleansing* in spain in the 1400s, and the *inquisition* used to enforce ideological hegemony, especially as precursors to what happened here. then, look at local (to europe) resistances, and cultures that were at odds to that (like, i dunno, say, islam, and jewish scholarship). then you can start seeing even the people you identify as your own, as allies rather than as the enemies you've internalized.

as far as that goes... even the spanish, for all their horrors, did some really cool things-- like declaring indians humans, i.e. as possessing souls to save, and thus rights to uphold (like to land), that the english didn't burden themselves with. it might have something to do with millions of mayans alive today, if not quite well, as opposed to the pitiful few in america.

i would also mention melungeon history. now there's a can of worms for you to go eat.

and why did the locals help the spanish against the aztecs? why oh why oh why?

special ps (cuz i love em thass why): your theory entirely fails to explain "security moms," a post-9/11 phenom in the US in which it's the soccer-mom crowd who want all sorts of intrusive anti-civil-liberties stuff and are demanding war &c. sure, many women march against war, and men do too. but the isssue isn't a gender polemic, and your treatment of it as such is a major flaw in your reasoning.

maybe it's just propaganda, but maybe it's true. say it out loud: women vote for bush. smart ones too. if it is just propaganda, then shouldn't womens' suffrage have ended the election of warmongers, because women are a majority of the population?

i'm not even going to go through and correct your paper, this is snippy enough as it is. please think more, and do keep at it, okay moth?
by Burningman
the person who posted this article is the infamous "moth" echo-terrorist, connected to earth first and earth liberation front. this person usually spends the days defending the arson attacks in southern California that earth liberation front has carried out.
TELL US MOTH WHEN WILL ELF BE ADMITTING IT'S
INVOLVEMENT WITH THE CURRENT ACTIONS?
by Zionists are RACISTS
Stop allowing Zionists to post on this website that is generally pro-justice for the Palestinian but allows hateful posts by ZioNazis like gehrig and a few others.

At least Indymedia should be Zionist-free.

Lord knows the Zionists dominate all the other media, and they make no apologies for it. They flaunt it!

All other racists' remarks are deleted about any ethnic group, in general, at Indymedia. But master obfuscationists like Zionist gehrig are allowed to post as much as they want, no matter how offensive which is almost always.
by Scottie
> ZaR

-The dividing line that you use to declare the fair balance of representation is one that is defined by your own political opinion.

For example you would probably consider it fair to have as many people to the left of you as to the right of you in the media. but at the same time Sharon would see it as fair if there were the same amount of people to the left and right of him in the media.

If both of you are using arbitrary beliefs to define who should get more representation and who should get less then you are both part of the problem.
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