OMNI ANTI-WAR, ANTI-IMPERIALISM,
ANTI-CANT NEWSLETTER #2. January 18,
2013. Compiled by
Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace. (#1 April 2, 2012).
Dick Bennett
My blog:
War Department/Peace Department
My blog:
War Department/Peace Department
Newsletters
Index:
See: Chemical War, “Collateral Damage” (Language
of War), Consequences of War, Costs of War, Genocide, Imperialism, Individual
Wars, Militarism, Military-Industrial Complex, Nuclear Weapons and War, Pentagon
(the War Department), Profits of War, PTSD, Suicide, Torture, War as a Racket, War
Crimes, Wastes of War, and many more topics.
Anti-cant: Cant is a
word with many meanings, including insincere or hypocritical statements, esp.
pious platitudes. Merely verbal
opposition to war and praise of world peace are very often cant. So be cautious about saying you hate war
and are for peace, if you are not prepared to act against war, because people
will measure you by the discrepancy between word and deed.
Contents of #1
Antiwar.com
Amy Goodman
Hochschild on WWI
Hedges, Myth of War
Contents of #2
Dick: North American Directory
5 ANTI-WAR ORGANIZATIONS
HAW Annual Conference
Veterans for Peace
Military Families Speak Out
Citizen Soldier: www.citizen-soldier.org
War Resisters League
INDIVIDUALS
Howard Zinn for Truth, Justice, Peace
Giffey, Veterans’ Paths to Peace in Many Wars
HISTORY
NBC, War as Entertainment
Here is the link to all OMNI
newsletters:
http://www.omnicenter.org/newsletter-archive/ For a knowledge-based peace, justice, and
ecology movement and an informed citizenry as the foundation for change.
DIRECTORY
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5 ORGANIZATIONShaw-info-bounces@stopthewars.org on behalf of Van Gosse
[vgosse@fandm.edu]haw-info@stopthewars.org
December 4, 2012
Dear HAW colleagues,
The dust has settled at last on the 2012 elections, and all
of us focused on stopping war and making peace are back where we
started. The “War on Terror” justifying grossly illegal actions by
our government. The U.S.
military’s umbrella spreading further over the world. Unqualified
support to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and killing of
Palestinian people.
HAW was founded almost ten years ago to oppose the looming
invasion of Iraq , but our
purview has always been larger – the “two, three, many Iraqs ” looming
in the future. We’re still here because we need to be.
Our next project, which we hope you will support, is HAW’s Third National Conference, to be
held April 5-7, 2013, at Towson
State University U.S.
Although months off, the conference is already coming
together very strongly. Featured speakers include Rashid Khalidi (Columbia ), Alfred McCoy (U. of Wisconsin
Roundtables and panels already accepted address topics such
as “Imperial War from Counterinsurgency to Drones,” “The Asia-Pacific Pivot,”
“The New Conscientious Objectors,” “Law and the New Faces of War,” and
“Teaching the War on Terror.” (Proposals
for panels, workshops, and individual papers are still being accepted at conf@historiansagainstwar.org up to December 15.)
It costs real money to put a conference like this—for
facilities, printed materials, travel, all the nitty-gritty. We
again need your financial support. Anything from $25 to $100, or
anything above or below those figures, would be much
appreciated. You can use the PayPal link on our website (at http://www.historiansagainstwar.org/donations.html or
else mail a check to me as HAW Treasurer at the Department of History, Franklin & Marshall
College , Lancaster PA 17604-3003
Thank you, and hope to see you in April,
Van Gosse
VETERANS FOR PEACE
August 10, 2012
Dear Dick ,
The voice of veterans speaking and working for
peace is essential to create the change we need to move our nation from
addiction to war to the use of diplomacy and the pursuit of peace.
“Exposing the
true costs of war and militarism” is indeed what we’ve been doing for over 25
years. Currently, some of the ways we do
that are:
Speaking
everywhere we are invited and inviting ourselves when needed
Establishing
temporary “Arlington ” Memorials that
dramatically demonstrate the cost in U.S.
Increasing
awareness of the more than 700 U.S.
Showing what
military spending costs taxpayers and how changing where we invest our public
wealth will provide a better life and a more sustainable planet
Creating working
links with organizations and individuals committed to creating that better
life.
Your commitment
is invaluable to VFP and to this work.
Right now we are focusing on the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan
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ACTIVIST
PROFILE
Brandywine Peace Community, a long-time WRL affiliate, has
been throwing their support behind the Occupy movement with "Welcome,
Occupy Philly" signs and banners that made the connection between the
corporate control of U.S. democracy and the corporate militarism of such war
profiteers as Lockheed Martin, the world's #1 war profiteer and Pentagon
weapons producer.
IN MEMORIUM
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have experienced tear gas all over the world. By making the links between
these stories we hope to bring those that profit off of tear gas further into
the public consciousness and, along with that, the inspiring movements the
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The issue includes articles on Andean campesino resistance against multinational mining corporations, on the strategic relationship formed between communities organizing in
The issue also features Michael Fiorentino’s thoughtful review of the War Resisters League’s new book, We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in the 21st Century, which makes an urgent plea for why this book is a necessary and timely contribution for reinvigorating the anti-war movement.
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Edited by We Have Not Been Moved looks at the major points of intersection between white supremacy and the war machine through both historic and contemporary articles from a diverse range of scholars and activists. The editors emphasize what needs to be done now to move forward for lasting social change. Produced in collaboration with the War Resisters League, the book also examines the strategic and tactic possibilities of radical transformation through revolutionary nonviolence.
Introduction by Cornel West
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2012 marks the 100th
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and many groups—from the Quaker-based American Friends Service Committee and
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humble beginnings.This slideshow was put together by WRL, for whom Rustin served as Executive Secretary from 1953 to 1965 — including the period when he was chief architect of the historic 1963 March on
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INDIVIDUALS
HOWARD ZINN
Home » Publications » WIN
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Howard Zinn: A
Life on the Left
A Man of Hope by Vijay Prashad
Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left
By Martin Duberman 2012, New Press, 400 pages, $26.95 Howard Zinn (1922–2010) lived through and participated in two of the most important social movements of the 20th century: the Civil Rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement. Born into poverty, Zinn was thrown into radicalism by his reading and his surroundings. The Communist Party emerged in the 1930s as a major force in Martin Duberman’s biography, Howard Zinn: A Life on the Leftdivides Zinn’s life into two: the early years of the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, and then, after 1980, the years ofA People’s History of the SNCC AND Both SNCC and When the Vietnam War ended in 1975, Zinn, then only 53, found himself adrift. His “unchanging focus” in his writings, Duberman notes, meant that Zinn had “little left to add by way of commentary that was fresh.” Zinn’s framework had been set by the categories of class and race, and the new social movements did not immediately make sense to him. Feminism and gay rights — identity politics — did not earn his disfavor, but he could not grasp their significance. There is considerable material in Duberman’s account to show that Zinn’s personal life (his relationship with his wife, in particular) had been shaped by his era and that the critique of social relations in the family (one of the parts of second-wave feminism) had little impact on the Zinn household. If Zinn had taken in hand the vibrancy of these new movements, he might have been less disposed to despondency as Reaganism unfolded. Conservatism seemed to be on the ascendency, but the critiques of family and social relations laid on the dining table of American homes would earn dividends in the decades to come. It was unfathomable that feminism and gay rights would not shift the intolerable suffocation of American life and challenge the bedrock assumptions not only of conservatism but also of liberalism. This is not to say that either feminism or gay rights are inherently progressive, but that the critique of the bourgeois family would certainly enable a richer understanding of social life—one that would perhaps nudge aside the overwhelmingly private character of leisure and home and revive ideas of community and belonging. Searching for a project, Zinn chanced upon something that had first bothered him when he got to graduate school. Why was the story of workers’ struggle erased from People’s History revived Zinn. It was the perfect tonic for the world of Reaganism. A mass audience emerged, and Zinn became a reliable speaker to point out deceit and to encourage struggle. Nothing daunted him. He was optimistic to a fault. After 9/11, Zinn came out strongly against the War on Terror, and against the mechanisms of endless war that it implied. From his perch at The Progressive, Zinn punctured the hypocrisy of the war-makers and suggested always that there were alternatives that had been deliberately sidelined. When he was 87, Zinn was asked how he wanted to be remembered. He answered, as “somebody who gave people a feeling of hope and power that they didn’t have before.”
Vijay Prashad’s The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World bore the imprimatur of Zinn’s series and contained a foreword by him. His most recent books are Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (AK Press, 2012) and Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today (New Press, 2012).
What of the
lessons for activists from the Catonsville Nine and from this book in
particular? What contrasts can we see between resistance then and
resistance now? First the commonalities: A committed, skillful, and
coordinated support community is just as important now as it was when the
Catonsville Nine Defense Committee was writing press releases and Willa
Bickham and Brendan Walsh of Viva House Catholic Worker were feeding
hundreds of supporters every evening. The support group existed
hand-to-mouth but was able to raise the money to publish several nationwide
ads urging people to “come to Agnew Country,” proving that checkbook activism
works. Support communities enthusiastically planned and attended rallies
and vigils and trial- related protests in
MUZZLED These tactics still work in publicizing resistance trials, but defendants today are usually muzzled by judges forbidding defendants from using the prosecutor’s pre-trial list of forbidden terms—terms such as “first strike,” “Geneva Convention,” even the word “children.” In the Catonsville trial, the defendants were relatively more free and were fairly successful in discussing their motives and in putting the war itself on trial. Thirdly, resistance breeds resistance. If people hear about it. People new to activism, with their cell phones and instant access to email and the internet may find it hard to understand how communicating only by phone and post worked. But it did. The late Sixties were a time when thousands of young people were on the move around the country, grouping and regrouping in amorphous configurations. The trial of the Catonsville Nine and the recruiting done by the group took advantage of this movement and served as an impetus to similar actions. It is estimated that upwards of 100 draft board raids followed on the Nine, culminating in the large What is strikingly different about the Catonsville Nine and later resistance work is the lack of mainstream media attention. Civil disobedience today just doesn’t make news unless it’s violent. The media seems bored with trespass, petulant about property destruction, prosaic about prison terms. The rise of social media and alternative internet news sites means that news of resistance actions reaches mainly like-minded people, with correspondingly few avenues to increase their numbers. What non-violent actions can speak to the public as Catonsville did? I wish I knew. Rosalie Riegle is an oral historian and retired professor of English. A resident of
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Facing trial for a sit-in
at the Cedar Rapids office of U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, 11 peace activists vowed at a press
conference on Tuesday to step up their efforts to end the U.S. occupation of
Iraq."I was against this war six months before it started ... Iraq
The protesters include a former Catholic
priest, two UI students who served in Iraq ,
Goodner, five additional UI students, a UI employee, and an Iowa City
Grassley, who was traveling most of that day,
never called. The activists, charged with simple-misdemeanor criminal trespass,
will be tried simultaneously today starting at 9 a.m. in the Linn County
Courthouse. The defendants will enter joint not-guilty pleas.
Their attorney, Iowa City-based lawyer Mary
Wolfe, said in an interview Tuesday that her clients' case rests on the fact
that the Iowa trespassing law they are charged with violating can be defended
affirmatively, meaning the protesters can admit to trespass and still be
acquitted if they can prove the act was justified. They face an uphill battle,
though.
"They were part of the broader occupation
project and felt they needed to get our representatives to listen to them in
hopes that they decide the war is wrong," Wolfe said. "Our hope is
the judge will feel they were justified in doing what they had to do."
Contacted Tuesday afternoon, Grassley
spokeswoman Beth Pellett Levine did not provide a statement regarding the
trial.
Tuesday's press conference, held at the PEACE
center in Old Brick, was headlined by Kathy Kelly, the co-creator of Voices for
Creative Nonviolence. A two-time Noble Peace Prize nominee, Kelly was fined
$200,000 in U.S.
And neither, likely, will Goodner nor fellow
protester and UI student Andrew Alemao, should they be convicted of criminal
trespass. Both said they probably could not, with a clear conscious, submit to
a fine or community service "when I didn't do anything wrong," as
Goodner put it.
"And it's inexcusable that Grassley voted for not discussing the
war," Alemao said. "If he's going to kill free speech in the Senate,
we're going to let him know how we feel."
"We were justified in trying to make him
responsive to the antiwar movement," said Ryan Merz, one of the UI
students arrested. "He's been unresponsive for the last four years."
One of the protesters, former Catholic priest Frank Cordaro, is no stranger to
nonviolent resistance. He has been arrested numerous times for protesting at
military bases in Nebraska
Also arrested Feb. 16 was UI graduate student
and playwright Joshua Casteel, a
former Army interrogator whose recently debuted play Returns details the
horrors of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq
Opposing
Grassley's Iraq Policies The 11 protesters who will stand trial: -
Andrew Alemao, UI student - Joshua Casteel, UI graduate student; *Returns*
author; member, Iraq Veterans Against the War - Frank Cordaro, Des Moines
Catholic Worker, former priest - Megan Felt, UI student - Timothy Gauger, UI
employee - David Goodner, UI student - John Paul Hornbeck, UI graduate student;
member, Iraq Veterans Against the War - Ryan Merz, UI student - Conor Murphy,
UI student - Rosemary Persaud, Iowa City resident - Justin Riley, UI student
HISTORY
American Insurgents: A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism
By Richard Seymour. 2012.
All empires spin self-serving myths, and in the United States the most potent of these is that America Seymour
About the author
Richard Seymour is a socialist writer and columnist
and runs the blog Lenin's Tomb. He is the author of The Liberal Defense of
Murder (Verso, 2008), and The Meaning of David Cameron (Zero
Books, 2010). He has contributed to Christopher Hitchens and His Critics:
Terror, Iraq and the Left , (NYU Press, 2008) and The Ashgate Research
Companion to Political Violence (Ashgate, forthcoming). His articles have
appeared in The Guardian, The New Statesman, Radical
Philosophy and Historical Materialism. Originally from Northern Ireland , he now resides in London
Video
Reviews
Praise for American Insurgents
“American Insurgents presents an indispensable history of anti-imperialist
movements in the United States ,
beginning with the resistance to slavery and moving forward through the various
seasons of U.S. US
wars in the Middle East .”
—Michael Schwartz, author, War Without End
—Michael Schwartz, author, War Without End
“In the tradition of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States
and Joe Allen’s Vietnam, Richard Seymour shows that, from Manifest Destiny and
the ‘White Man’s Burden’ to ‘Humanitarian Intervention and the ‘War on Terror,’
U.S. imperialism has generated significant domestic opposition rooted in
grassroots movements for racial, economic and social justice. Stressing the
trap of Democratic Party co-optation, he offers important lessons about how
today’s movements of the 99 percent can most effectively oppose wars of the 1
percent.”
--Michael Letwin, founding member, New York City Labor Against the War and Labor forPalestine —Michael Letwin, founding
member, New York City Labor Against the War and Labor for Palestine
--Michael Letwin, founding member, New York City Labor Against the War and Labor for
Praise for Liberal Defense of Murder
“Richard Seymour’s obsessively researched, impressive first book holds its
place as the most authoritative historical analysis of its kind”
—Resurgence
—Resurgence
“[T]ruly impressive breadth and depth ... [providing] ... a new European
perspective – and a warning – on the left’s pragmatic and ultimately
shortsighted support for imperialist adventures”
—Journal of American Studies
—Journal of American Studies
“[A] powerful counter-blast against the monstrous regiment of ‘useful
idiots’” who have “contributed in recent decades to the murderous mess of
modern times”
— Times ofLondon
— Times of
“[A]n excellent antidote to the propagandists of the crisis of our times”
—Independent on Sunday
—Independent on Sunday
“[T]imely, provocative and thought-provoking”
—Independent
—Independent
“Among those who share responsibility for the carnage and chaos in the Gulf
are the useful idiots who gave the war intellectual cover and attempted to lend
it a liberal imprimatur. The more belligerent they sounded the more bankrupt
they became; the more strident their voice the more craven their position …
Richard Seymour expertly traces their descent from humanitarian intervention to
blatant Islamophobia.”
—Gary Younge
—Gary Younge
“Indispensable … Seymour
—China
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“[E]ssential reading”
—New Statesman
—New Statesman
News Blast - NBC
War-o-Tainment Show Under
Pressure, Premieres Tonight
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NBC War-o-Tainment Show Under Pressure, Premieres
Tonight
August 13, 2012
RootsAction.org, Just
Foreign Policy, Veterans For Peace, and Military Families Speak Out have
launched a campaign at http://StarsEarnStripes.org targeting NBC's new program,
"Stars Earn Stripes," which the network heavily advertised during
its Olympics telecast. The show will
debut today August 13th.
A protest will be held at 5 p.m. today outside NBC
headquarters, on the North side of West
49th Street , between 5th and 6th Avenues in New York City .
Participating will be Military Families Speak Out, Veterans For Peace, the
Granny Peace Brigade, Peace Action, and other peace groups. Participants will deliver a petition and the
names of thousands who have signed it at http://StarsEarnStripes.org. Contact: Joan Wile, 917-441-0651.
"This is particularly offensive given that six soldiers
were killed in Afghanistan
last week," said Joan Wile, leader of Grandmothers Against the War.
"To feature the hazards of war as a game completely glosses over the
reality of its horrors and is a slap in the face of our armed forces being
killed and maimed on a regular basis in real wars." Contact: Joan Wile,
917-441-0651.
Veterans For Peace President Leah Bolger said, "Retired
General Wesley Clark should be ashamed of himself for his role in promoting
this 'reality' show. He knows better
than most that war is not a game played by contestants. In a promotion for the show, he tries to
impress us with its realism '...live ammo, real explosions and real danger....'
How ironic that PFC Bradley Manning has been in jail for more than two years
for letting the public see the real truth of war, while NBC makes a profit out
of making it into entertainment."
Leah Bolger leahbolger@comcast.net 541-207-7761.
Military Families Speak Out Board Member Sarah Fuhro said,
"Having my son return from two REAL wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan ,
with the cost of war carried in his body and heart, I find this deeply
offensive. Having met wounded children and refugees from these and other wars,
I find this disgusting. I hope NBC will reconsider this form of
entertainment."
Sarah Fuhro sarahbeagl@aol.com 508-652-9880, cell
508-740-7039.
Military Families Speak Out Member Anna Berlinrut said,
"As the mother of a Marine about to deploy to Afghanistan for his 6th mission in
harm's way, I find trivializing war to be horrendous and profit making from war
to be a crime."
Contact via Sarah Fuhro sarahbeagl@aol.com 508-652-9880,
cell 508-740-7039.
Just Foreign Policy's
Robert Naiman said, "It's breathtakingly bizarre that NBC is promoting
a 'reality TV series' glamorizing war at a time when 87,000 American soldiers
are fighting in a real war in Afghanistan that lost the support of the majority
of Americans a long time ago. If NBC wants to show Americans what war is really
like, they should take their TV cameras to a military hospital, and ask the
people they meet there what they think about keeping tens of thousands of
American soldiers in Afghanistan indefinitely, or what they think of the plans
of some people in Washington to start a new war with Iran."
Robert Naiman naiman@justforeignpolicy.org 217-979-2857.
RootsAction's
Campaign Coordinator David Swanson said, "'Stars Earn Stripes' is a
reality show cohosted by retired U.S. General Wesley Clark, co-starring Todd
Palin, and with no apparent role for reality.
The ads brag about the use of real bullets, but depict war as a harmless
sport. Celebrities paired up with
soldiers competing at 'long-range weapons fire' is not a continuation of the
Olympics. It's a normalization of war
that erases the death and suffering."
David Swanson david@davidswanson.org 202-329-7847.
StarsEarnStripes.org is asking NBC to stop treating war as a
sport, and to air an in-depth segment showing the reality of civilian victims
of recent U.S.
wars, on any program, any time in the coming months. RootsAction has provided some resources to
help NBC research and show the reality of war, at http://StarsEarnStripes.org
The words "War Is Fun!" were added by the campaign
into a promotional photo sent out by NBC.
RootsAction is an
online initiative dedicated to galvanizing Americans who are committed to
economic fairness, equal rights, civil liberties, environmental protection --
and defunding endless wars. http://rootsaction.org
Forward to a Friend
Veterans For Peace, 216 S. Meramec, St. Louis , MO 63105
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