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View events for the week of 10/8/2007

East Bay Anti-War

CodePINK Action: "War is NO Picnic", Marine Recruiting Station

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Date:

Monday, October 08, 2007

Time:

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Event Type:

Other

Organizer/Author:

zanne joi

Email:

mzsam [at] bayareacodepink.org

Phone:

510-524-2776

Location Details:

Marine Recruiting Station
64 Shattuck Square
Berkeley

"War is NO Picnic" Action today, Indigenous People's Day and CodePINK's 5th bitter-sweet Birthday. Bring a basket with toy soldiers, body parts, blood (tomato juice); How many slaughters are we willing to accept for GREED?

Bring visuals/pictures of the Real Face of War - or just BE THERE~!

Join CodePINK, Grandmothers Against War, Graypanthers, and many others as we continue our protest against this military presence in Berkeley.

Help protect our youth - Congress refuses to & Bush certainly is not going to - BUT WE the Mothers, the Fathers, the concerned citizens, must protect them!

BE THERE 11:30a.m. until 1:30p.m. 64 Shattuck Square just south of University Ave on Shattuck, where Shattuck becomes one way & runs north

For more information: http://www.bayareacodepink.org

Added to the calendar on Fri, Oct 5, 2007 7:24PM

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§I just have one question.....

by EOD Marine

Fri, Oct 5, 2007 11:27PM

Here is a thought, if Code Pink knows so much about our economy and oil why haven't you come up with a feasible plan to end our addition of oil? For instance, use you energy to create a working business model that grows, creates, and distrubutes a renewable fuel source. Think nationally, not locally. Then raise the money to implement your plan and watch your business grow. If you have done all this and we still fight for oil/our economy I would consider listening to your rants. Until that time comes, you are background noise on the TV that is forgotten as soon I turn off the TV.

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§"EOD Marine" is as dumb and corrupt as his Commander-in-Chief!

by anti-imperialist

Sun, Oct 7, 2007 1:58AM

I suppose that EOD Marine would respond to a prosecution for rape by demanding that the prosecutor come up with a business plan to satisfy the sexual desires of rapists by other means. (It's been tried, actually, and has led to many lucrative businesses, but it hasn't stopped rape. Nor would what EOD Marine suggests here stop the U.S. rape of Planet Earth and its peoples.)

Leaving analogies aside, EOD Marine seems to think it's OK for the U.S. to keep on killing people around the world for their oil (and, presumably, other resources) as long as it's the only way for the U.S. to maintain its gluttonous capitalist way of life. May those, like EOD Marine, who live by the sword of oppression die by the sword of resistance!

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§Still confused

by Mike

Sun, Oct 7, 2007 9:13PM

Why exactly are you protesting outside an Officer-producing office? Seems to me that since Officer Candidates must have a Bachelors degree or higher they are entirely capable of thinking and making decisions for themselves.

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§I have a hunch ...

by Aaron Aarons (indybay [at] aarons.f-m.fm)

Mon, Oct 8, 2007 3:04AM

I have a hunch that if there were an office recruiting college graduates to join the FARC (of Colombia) or the New People's Army (of the Philippines) -- organizations which, very unlike the United States Marine Corps, fight for social justice -- they'd have a lot more to worry about than some peaceful protesters, and "Mike" would not be supporting the right of their potential recruits to think and make decisions for themselves!

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§Am I to understand

by Mike

Mon, Oct 8, 2007 12:16PM

That your definition of "social justice" is communist revolution?

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§Mike ignores my main point

by Aaron Aarons

Tue, Oct 9, 2007 6:21PM

I know that this event listing is stale, but, for the sake of whoever might come across this page in a web search:

My main point was that people like Mike don't support the right of people who "are entirely capable of thinking and making decisions for themselves" to make a decision to join an armed group that they (Mike, et al.) consider to be the enemy. I, and other anti-imperialists, don't support the "right" of such people to join the United States military. Mike, and other supporters of U.S. imperialism, don't support the right of such people to join the armed resistance to imperialism, be it communist, Islamist or something else.

The difference is that I don't pretend that my position is based on support for the right of people who "are entirely capable of thinking and making decisions for themselves" to make any decision they choose, when that decision affects other people.

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