Meet Up 10:15 AM Tuesday at NW Corner of 3rd & Mission!
Occupy 3rd & Howard: Say NO! to Endless Wars for Empire!
"YOUR GOVERNMENT enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance"
-from the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime (2005).
OBAMA'S COMING TO TOWN!
Occupy… Bring the Noise… Represent!
EXCLUSIVE SAN FRANCISCO LUNCHEON AT THE "W" HOTEL
$7500/plate fundraiser closed to the public
PROTEST ALL THE CRIMES THIS MONEY WILL BUY!
Meet up at 3rd & Howard Streets at 11:00 AM
Tens of thousands of people in the U.S., taking the lead from millions in the
Middle East, are "occupying" public spaces, seeking change in the world as it
is, standing up to authority, power, and blowing the ceiling off expectations
that the vast disparity in global income "has to" be as it is. We've got to
spread these occupations!
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of U.S. military, support staff and private
contractors are "occupying" two countries in the Middle East, in a mission to
enforce, with a vengeance, U.S. domination over the region, employing night
raids, torture, and terror towards the civilian population. We've got to end
those occupations!
FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS:
U.S. OCCUPATIONS, bombs, and secret operations have wreaked havoc in the Middle
East since 2001, sold to the public on the basis of being in the "United States'
national interest." As just one example of the type of war being fought, in 2010
it was revealed the 5th Stryker Brigade's "Kill Team" went on a shooting spree,
hunting down and murdering unarmed Afghan civilians at random and mutilating
corpses for fun. U.S. / NATO bombing raids kill even more civilians this year
than last. The U.S. detains hundreds in Bagram prison in Afghanistan, without
charges, lawyers, or rights… and Guantánamo remains open, in spite of Obama's
declaration almost three years ago that he would close it as a stain on
America's conscience.
THE U.S. OCCUPATION of Iraq caused the worst humanitarian crisis of our time:
over 4.1 million refugees over the last 8 years; 1.2 million killed; the
wholesale destruction of the infrastructure, agriculture, electrical, and
educational systems. Still in Iraq are 50,000 troops re-branded from "combat" to
"advisers" and tens of thousands of private mercenaries at 17 permanent bases.
The very soonest the troops could be pulled out of Afghanistan isn't until 2024,
according to the Obama administration's pact with Karzai.
OBAMA HAS INCREASED unmanned drone attacks and secret operations in Pakistan and
Yemen, killing hundreds of civilians. The administration of the Nobel Peace
Laureate continues to support repressive regimes in Yemen and Bahrain, against
the demands of their people, but mounted a $1 billion bombing and secret
operation in Libya, under cover of "humanitarianism" and with the collusion of
the former colonial powers France and Britain, using the same weapons that could
be used in an often-threatened attack on Iran. It's an outrage that this
government spent $2 trillion on military aggression, more than all the other
countries combined while, officially, one in seven, live in poverty and the
richest 1% increased their income during this recession.
Homelessness, criminal lack of healthcare, and 2.4 million poor people
imprisoned are the "American way" as much as U.S. domination of other countries
and the wanton exploitation of the earth's resources. But, if the richest
country in the world provided jobs, education, healthcare for all the people
living here, would it be OK to kill people indiscriminately and in protracted
occupations for empire?
It is right and just to occupy town squares across the country to declare we are
the 99% who are NOT represented by this government and the culture of greed that
surrounds us. Find an occupation near you at occupytogether.org and raise your
voice in resistance against the most powerful empire in world history – and do
it for the people of the world!
The future is unwritten. Which one we get is up to us.
Find out more at worldcantwait.net.
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