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Not In Our Name, Mr. Bush!
Oct. 6th, 2002 09:00 pmToday, people from all over and all walks of life gathered all across the nation to protest (among other things) the current administration's plans to go to war with Iraq. We were fortunate enough to be able to join 
C-ko and thousands of other Seattleites in what has to be one of the most orderly protests i've seen- as well as one of the largest.
I think the organizational Pledge of Resistance is worth reproducing here:
As people living in the United States, we believe
it is our responsibility to resist the injustices
done by our government in our name.
Not in our name
will you wage "endless war."
There can be no more deaths,
No more transfusions of blood for oil.
Not in our name
will you invade countries,
bomb civilians, kill more children,
letting history take its course
over the graves of the nameless.
Not in our name
will you erode the very freedoms
you've claimed to fight for.
Not by our hands
will we supply weapons and funding
for the annihilation of families
on foreign soil.
Not by our mouths
will we let fear silence us.
Not by our hands
will we allow whole peoples or countries
to be deemed evil.
Not by our will,
and not in our name.
We pledge resistance.
We pledge alliance with those
who have come under attack
for voicing opposition to the war
or for their religion or ethnicity.
We pledge to make common cause
with the people of the world
to bring about justice, freedom and peace.
Another world is possible
and we pledge to make it real.
This should NOT be taken as an endorsement of the policies of the Hussein government, just a clear statement that regardless of what's happening in Iraq, it's not in the best interests of the US at large. With the sagging economy and unemployment approaching post-Depression highs in many parts of the country, there is no reason for the warmongers Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield et al. to be trying to trump up a war in Iraq while ignoring the problems here. Whatever is going on in Iraq isn't clearly threatening national interests, and trying to create ties to al-Qaeda and justify war as a continuation of the "war on terrorism" is just patently ridiculous. IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!
C-ko and thousands of other Seattleites in what has to be one of the most orderly protests i've seen- as well as one of the largest.I think the organizational Pledge of Resistance is worth reproducing here:
As people living in the United States, we believe
it is our responsibility to resist the injustices
done by our government in our name.
Not in our name
will you wage "endless war."
There can be no more deaths,
No more transfusions of blood for oil.
Not in our name
will you invade countries,
bomb civilians, kill more children,
letting history take its course
over the graves of the nameless.
Not in our name
will you erode the very freedoms
you've claimed to fight for.
Not by our hands
will we supply weapons and funding
for the annihilation of families
on foreign soil.
Not by our mouths
will we let fear silence us.
Not by our hands
will we allow whole peoples or countries
to be deemed evil.
Not by our will,
and not in our name.
We pledge resistance.
We pledge alliance with those
who have come under attack
for voicing opposition to the war
or for their religion or ethnicity.
We pledge to make common cause
with the people of the world
to bring about justice, freedom and peace.
Another world is possible
and we pledge to make it real.
This should NOT be taken as an endorsement of the policies of the Hussein government, just a clear statement that regardless of what's happening in Iraq, it's not in the best interests of the US at large. With the sagging economy and unemployment approaching post-Depression highs in many parts of the country, there is no reason for the warmongers Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield et al. to be trying to trump up a war in Iraq while ignoring the problems here. Whatever is going on in Iraq isn't clearly threatening national interests, and trying to create ties to al-Qaeda and justify war as a continuation of the "war on terrorism" is just patently ridiculous. IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!
