I am totally fed up with the flood of recent articles all over the mainstream media and some misbegotten but popular blogs, bemoaning the lack of any mass antiwar demonstrations. Not one of them ever dare mention the latest upcoming blow-out demonstration in DC this very next Saturday: January 27th, at the Mall! I'll be there and the WP, NYT and all those weepy bloggers blubbering about the lack of demonstrators better be there or else. Heh. I'll write nasty stuff about them.
By John McMillian
Saturday, January 20, 2007; 12:00 AMRecently I finished teaching a freshman seminar at Harvard called "From Reform to Revolution: Youth Culture in the 1960s." When I built the syllabus, I asked students to ponder a single, overarching question: "How did the youth rebellion of the 1960s happen?" That is, what caused millions of young people to pierce the bland and platitudinous din that characterized the early Cold War years? Why did so many youths -- many of them affluent and college-educated -- suddenly decide that American society needed to be radically overhauled?
Um, it truly pisses me off the fact that this smarmy professor doesn't mention the upcoming January 27th antiwar demonstration in DC. I am going to be there and reporting about how the media will not cover it just like the refused the last times we had identical demonstrations! It is getting absurd, these attacks on those of us who desperately try to do something while the WP refuses to mention an obvious event that is upcoming and very, very important.
Shall we run cars into the lobby of their headquarters and tie up the editors and scream at them? Most of the time when Cindy Sheehan bravely pushes the war protests right in the face of DC, the media sneers at her, ignores her or brutalizes her even more than the cops. Her profound bravery and siingle-minded valor is historic and on the level of Joan d'Arc. But does the WP give her precious editorial space to ask for us to join her on January 27th? No? NO!!!
This crappy paper prefers to hand over the ink to this bubbling bastard. On the brink of WWIII, this is the discourse. It infuriates me. Gah. I will visit them on the 27th. Drag them into the demonstration.
In the sixties, getting together demonstrations was hard work! I did it! I drew leaflets which had to be done on a primitive machine called 'mimeographs' that needed a carbon copy that had to be drawn by hand if I wanted illustrations. I discovered if we didn't illustrate a leaflet, no one would accept them. My first art commissions were doing these leaflets!
Then we had to pass them out and plaster them about town. Lots of work there, hard to find volunteers. We had to train people in crowd control, we had to have medics...I was one for years! Dangerous job, too.
Then we had to have good speakers and banners...I painted hundreds of those! And then we had to actually demonstrate and since people wanted to kill us, this was no small matter: it was very dangerous even in strongholds like Berkeley! They shot guns at us! They killed us! They beat us unmercifully!
The anti-WTO demonstrators were beaten and shot and abused. They don't bother now, it is deadly. This doesn't mean no one cares! Our country is going down the drain because the people struggling to stop the betrayal of Americans failed thanks to the WP and its minions and the ruling elites it serves.
I will definitely let these clowns at the WP know about Saturday's demonstration. I know where they are hiding. They will see me soon! Miz Liberty will shine the light of truth on them no matter how hard they try to lie or cover up reality. I intend to take lots and lots of pictures.
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Hey, Mrs. Braveass:
Better beam those pictures up to a geosynchronous satellite!!! Those assholes will bop the shit out of you. They will 'confiscate' your video! Think the Wapo didn't censor our demonstrations during 'Nam? Think again!!! I've played this game before, honey!!! They will say 10 of us showed up. And got Tasered®! Don't 'demand' solutions!!! Just provide solutions!!! That will really kick their asses!
Posted by: blues | January 20, 2007 at 03:20 PM
Better yet, I will publish them here, heh.
Posted by: Elaine Meinel Supkis | January 20, 2007 at 05:36 PM
Veterans for Peace is planning a good turnout on the 27th.
At the Aug. 2006 convention of the Vets for Peace, John Perkins (author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman) gave the keynote address. A video of his speech can be viewed here. It's an hour long but well worth watching. He explains, in eloquently simple terms, the corporate control of our wars in the Middle East, our empire's deals with the Saudis and with Hussein, the rise of the left in Central and South America, and the need to alter the fundamental economic premises of corporate America. I disagree with a few of his comments, but he is on the mark most of the time. An inspring talk--I said Amen! to my computer screen several times.
Posted by: DaliWood | January 20, 2007 at 06:03 PM
I expect many vets. In 2003 there were MANY vets, not just Vietnam but WWII and Korean war vets. They were all for the war in Afghanistan (which back then I called a fool's errand) but they knew the horror of what was coming in Iraq. As I kept telling people, they fought Iran and took half a MILLION dead.
Which, incidentally, is how many are dead thanks to us today.
Posted by: Elaine Meinel Supkis | January 21, 2007 at 06:25 AM