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11/15: EMERGENCY MEETING of Bay Area Anti-War Groups
BAUAW (Socialist Action's front group against the war) sent this out on their email list this week. I am posting this cuz it was forwarded to a list that I am on.
EMERGENCY MEETING:
COME TO THE NEXT BAUAW MEETING AND BRING YOUR IDEAS ON HOW TO
ACHIEVE UNITY IN THE MOVEMENT:
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH, 7:00 p.m.
1380 Valencia Street (Between 24th & 25th Streets, SF)
BAUAW: 415-824-8730
---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*
Open letter to Bay Area Activists from Bay Area
United Against War (BAUAW):
Dear friends who organized, participated, and/or spoke in the
demonstrations sponsored by Not in Our Name and ANSWER on
Nov. 3 and Nov. 9.
At the concluding rally of the emergency demonstration ANSWER
called to protest the U.S. assault on Fallujah, Jahahara, of AFSC and
N'COBRA, issued a kind of challenge to all the major antiwar
organizations to make a unified response to the U.S. government's
war against Iraq. He called on the national organizations, of which
we are all affiliated to one or more-ANSWER, UFPJ, NION-to unify
in building a massive antiwar movement.
This call is so timely because the war and occupation continue
unabated, the consequences for the Iraqis are devastating
(over 100,000 civilians killed by U.S. actions) and over 1,110 U.S.
troops are dead and tens of thousands injured.
Those of us who are old enough to have participated in the
movement against the U.S. war on Vietnam know that the most
effective mass actions against that war that called for bringing
all U.S. troops home now [Out Now!] were unified actions where
people of different ideologies were able to come together for
Out Now despite their divergent opinions on other topics. The mass
movement that was built on the streets of the U.S. created
a supportive environment for
U.S. soldiers to resist the war in multiple ways eventually
becoming an unreliable fighting force for U.S. imperialism.
Now, it is very clear from all who spoke at the last two
demonstrations, that we have wide areas of agreement. We
all spoke about the need for the movement to get back into
the streets to protest the war in massive demonstrations. We
all spoke about the need for unity. We all spoke about the way
to bring peace and end the war was for the U.S. government
to get out of
Iraq.
The next step is for all our organizations to meet together
and concretely plan how this unity will be carried out.
Bay Area United Against War is willing to host such a meeting,
or participate in such a meeting called by others. Let's
make it happen.
Bring the Troops Home Now!
Carole Seligman, Bay Area United Against War (BAUAW)
COME TO THE NEXT BAUAW MEETING AND BRING YOUR IDEAS ON HOW TO
ACHIEVE UNITY IN THE MOVEMENT:
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH, 7:00 p.m.
1380 Valencia Street (Between 24th & 25th Streets, SF)
BAUAW: 415-824-8730
---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*
Open letter to Bay Area Activists from Bay Area
United Against War (BAUAW):
Dear friends who organized, participated, and/or spoke in the
demonstrations sponsored by Not in Our Name and ANSWER on
Nov. 3 and Nov. 9.
At the concluding rally of the emergency demonstration ANSWER
called to protest the U.S. assault on Fallujah, Jahahara, of AFSC and
N'COBRA, issued a kind of challenge to all the major antiwar
organizations to make a unified response to the U.S. government's
war against Iraq. He called on the national organizations, of which
we are all affiliated to one or more-ANSWER, UFPJ, NION-to unify
in building a massive antiwar movement.
This call is so timely because the war and occupation continue
unabated, the consequences for the Iraqis are devastating
(over 100,000 civilians killed by U.S. actions) and over 1,110 U.S.
troops are dead and tens of thousands injured.
Those of us who are old enough to have participated in the
movement against the U.S. war on Vietnam know that the most
effective mass actions against that war that called for bringing
all U.S. troops home now [Out Now!] were unified actions where
people of different ideologies were able to come together for
Out Now despite their divergent opinions on other topics. The mass
movement that was built on the streets of the U.S. created
a supportive environment for
U.S. soldiers to resist the war in multiple ways eventually
becoming an unreliable fighting force for U.S. imperialism.
Now, it is very clear from all who spoke at the last two
demonstrations, that we have wide areas of agreement. We
all spoke about the need for the movement to get back into
the streets to protest the war in massive demonstrations. We
all spoke about the need for unity. We all spoke about the way
to bring peace and end the war was for the U.S. government
to get out of
Iraq.
The next step is for all our organizations to meet together
and concretely plan how this unity will be carried out.
Bay Area United Against War is willing to host such a meeting,
or participate in such a meeting called by others. Let's
make it happen.
Bring the Troops Home Now!
Carole Seligman, Bay Area United Against War (BAUAW)
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"BAUAW (Socialist Action's front group against the war)"?
Really? Thanks for warning us.
But wait, the author of this Carole Seligman left Socialist Action some time ago to help start the Workers-Organization -Something-or-other. And Socialist Action doesn't really support BAUAW.
Sure, many people don't care about the differences between Socialist Action and Carole's new group. But the point of this is that maybe folks should actually know something about what they are talking about if they really feel the need to make declarations about the secret underbelly of the movement.
Finally, does Carole's and others participation in BAUAW really make it a "front group?" It seems like they have public meetings and they decide things and do things -- that seems like it should count for something.
Really? Thanks for warning us.
But wait, the author of this Carole Seligman left Socialist Action some time ago to help start the Workers-Organization -Something-or-other. And Socialist Action doesn't really support BAUAW.
Sure, many people don't care about the differences between Socialist Action and Carole's new group. But the point of this is that maybe folks should actually know something about what they are talking about if they really feel the need to make declarations about the secret underbelly of the movement.
Finally, does Carole's and others participation in BAUAW really make it a "front group?" It seems like they have public meetings and they decide things and do things -- that seems like it should count for something.
Dear Iraqis -- we Americans apologize to you for illegally
invading and occupying your country. We need your oil. If we
destroy your houses and kill your children to get the petroleum,
we apologize for any inconvenience.
We have sent our puppet Dr. Quisling Allawi to rule over you.
We will not destroy any city or kill your children without first
asking our puppet Allawi if he wants us to do so. Under our
program of "No Child Left Behind," we will first tell Dr. Allawi
how many Iraqi children we want to kill, and we will instruct Dr.
Allawi to give his permission to kill exactly that many children,
and not one child more. Then we will hold our fire and announce
to the world that we are waiting for Dr. Allawi to ask us to kill
your children, before we kill a single child. Only when our
Number-1 Puppet-Minister of Iraq has asked us to start killing --
and not one day before -- that's when we will kill your children.
We are a civilized country, America. We realize that your children
are a burden to you. We need your oil, and so, in exchange for
looting your second-largest oil reserves in the world, we will
take over from you the job of killing your bothersome,
hard-to-feed-and-clothe children. We have many advanced ways of
infanticide, Arabicide and Iraqicide. Our chief methods of de-
childing your lives will be dropping bombs on the houses where
your children sleep, and shooting up the neighborhoods where your
childen play. We have gotten so good at killing your children that
some of our snipers really enjoy the job and take pleasure in it.
In Najaf, we had snipers that would shoot to kill any Iraqi mother
who walked outside with a child in her arms. As our president Bush
likes to boast, "they are not a problem any more."
You see, to our president, your children are just so much trash.
The God of Christianity has appointed our president to kill your
Iraqi children before they grow up to hate us and fight us. You
don't want trashy children, do you? Our president feels the same
way -- in his eyes, the American soldiers are just so much trash.
They don't deserve decent medical care when they are wounded, and
they don't deserve decent pay. Our Cocainer-in-Chief Bush is an
equal-opportunity trash-destroyer -- Iraqi children, American
working-class soldiers -- it's all disposable trash to him. He
doesn't go to your child's funeral, and he doesn't go to his
soldier's funeral. His idea is, let the trashy parents of the
dead American white-trash and black-trash soldier stage the trashy
funeral for the trashy casualties of a trashy war.
America is getting help in the killing of your children from the
Polish military, who learned it from the German military. There is
no difference between the Polish military in Iraq in 2004 and the
German military in Poland in 1944. Poland = Germany. Polish = Nazi.
Oh, a minor difference may be that the Polish troops are not
directly killing your Iraqi children. Our trashy American troops
do the killing of your trashy children, while the Polish Nazi
troops watch our backs.
Born-again Japanese militarism also helps us kill your baby
boys and girls. The Japanese were really good at killing babies
all over Asia in the nineteen thirties, but recently the Japanese
have been losing such traditional Japanese skills as invading
their neighbors and killing entire populations. Koizumi will
change all that, getting back to the great Japanese military
traditions of Hideki Tojo. Did you know that killing your Iraqi
children will bring honor to His Majesty the Emperor of Japan?
Hai, hai! Ho, ho! Japan will kill again, just as the glorious
Japanese Army killed many Chinese in the Rape of Nanking in 1937.
Japan is back! To whaq Iraq!
invading and occupying your country. We need your oil. If we
destroy your houses and kill your children to get the petroleum,
we apologize for any inconvenience.
We have sent our puppet Dr. Quisling Allawi to rule over you.
We will not destroy any city or kill your children without first
asking our puppet Allawi if he wants us to do so. Under our
program of "No Child Left Behind," we will first tell Dr. Allawi
how many Iraqi children we want to kill, and we will instruct Dr.
Allawi to give his permission to kill exactly that many children,
and not one child more. Then we will hold our fire and announce
to the world that we are waiting for Dr. Allawi to ask us to kill
your children, before we kill a single child. Only when our
Number-1 Puppet-Minister of Iraq has asked us to start killing --
and not one day before -- that's when we will kill your children.
We are a civilized country, America. We realize that your children
are a burden to you. We need your oil, and so, in exchange for
looting your second-largest oil reserves in the world, we will
take over from you the job of killing your bothersome,
hard-to-feed-and-clothe children. We have many advanced ways of
infanticide, Arabicide and Iraqicide. Our chief methods of de-
childing your lives will be dropping bombs on the houses where
your children sleep, and shooting up the neighborhoods where your
childen play. We have gotten so good at killing your children that
some of our snipers really enjoy the job and take pleasure in it.
In Najaf, we had snipers that would shoot to kill any Iraqi mother
who walked outside with a child in her arms. As our president Bush
likes to boast, "they are not a problem any more."
You see, to our president, your children are just so much trash.
The God of Christianity has appointed our president to kill your
Iraqi children before they grow up to hate us and fight us. You
don't want trashy children, do you? Our president feels the same
way -- in his eyes, the American soldiers are just so much trash.
They don't deserve decent medical care when they are wounded, and
they don't deserve decent pay. Our Cocainer-in-Chief Bush is an
equal-opportunity trash-destroyer -- Iraqi children, American
working-class soldiers -- it's all disposable trash to him. He
doesn't go to your child's funeral, and he doesn't go to his
soldier's funeral. His idea is, let the trashy parents of the
dead American white-trash and black-trash soldier stage the trashy
funeral for the trashy casualties of a trashy war.
America is getting help in the killing of your children from the
Polish military, who learned it from the German military. There is
no difference between the Polish military in Iraq in 2004 and the
German military in Poland in 1944. Poland = Germany. Polish = Nazi.
Oh, a minor difference may be that the Polish troops are not
directly killing your Iraqi children. Our trashy American troops
do the killing of your trashy children, while the Polish Nazi
troops watch our backs.
Born-again Japanese militarism also helps us kill your baby
boys and girls. The Japanese were really good at killing babies
all over Asia in the nineteen thirties, but recently the Japanese
have been losing such traditional Japanese skills as invading
their neighbors and killing entire populations. Koizumi will
change all that, getting back to the great Japanese military
traditions of Hideki Tojo. Did you know that killing your Iraqi
children will bring honor to His Majesty the Emperor of Japan?
Hai, hai! Ho, ho! Japan will kill again, just as the glorious
Japanese Army killed many Chinese in the Rape of Nanking in 1937.
Japan is back! To whaq Iraq!
FYI: Out Now! was the slogan of the National Peace Action Coalition - a Sixties anti-war coalition which successfully organized massive demonstrations during the war in Vietnam. - the last major event being a counterinaugural protest against Nixon in Washington DC which was estimated to draw 600,000 people. They were also known for being dominated by the leadership of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party, (SWP) and tended to exclude any other issue than the single demand "Out Now"
A later split in the base of the SWP gave rise to Socialist Action.
A later split in the base of the SWP gave rise to Socialist Action.
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