Demonstration Today In San Francisco

1. Demonstration in SF today; demonstrations in 29 cities on Saturday! 2. Demonstration at Times Square NYC 3. Report: Obama Poised to Announce 45,000 Troop Escalation in Afghanistan 4. Trolley Update and Details 1. Emergency Protest in San Francisco Today! Protesters will march from Union Square to the front of the St. Francis Hotel where Obama is staying to protest Obama's rebranding of the Bush/Cheney program of endless war, preventive detention, and legalized torture. World Can't Wait will award him with a newly-created, George Orwell "War is Peace" Prize. Watch for news! There will be actions in at least 49 cities on Saturday! You can be one of thousands who are breaking the silence around Obama's trajectory of war, occupations and torture! Join us on Saturday at 3pm at Ala Moana Park (look for the blue earth flags at the Diamond Head end of the park). Call 534-2255 for details. 2. Don't miss the testimony of Staff Sgt. Sandra Lee, who spoke at last week's anti-recruitment demonstration in front of the Times Square Recruitment Station in NYC. How can the US military save Afghan women, when 1 in 3 of its own female members are raped by their fellow soldiers and Marines? Here's the link: Times Square Protest 3. The Obama Administration has reportedly told the British government that it intends to announce an escalation of another 45,000 troops in Afghanistan, potentially as soon as next week. Read more at: 45,000 troops. 4. Important update on trolley! The trolley company just informed us that they cannot provide the trolley. Several are out of commission, and other companies who regularly contract with them and have priority. We have reserved a flatbed truck and will have chairs and mats attached. The truck has a lift and we'll have steps to make it easier to get on the truck as well. We'll try to make it as comfortable as possible. On the positive side, the truck will have a sound system, your signs will be highly visible, and you'll definitely be heard and seen! 5. Check out the Afghanistan Fact Sheet at: Afghanistan Fact Sheet.

"He accepted, as thinkers for the next two hundred years were to accept, that European society was orgnized in a system of states in which war was an inescapable process for the settlement of differences in the absence of any higher common jurisdiction. That being the case, it was a requiremnt of humanity, of religion and of common sense alike that those wars should be fought in such a manner as to cause as little damage as possible.... For better or worse war was an instittution which could not be eliminated from the international system. All that could be done about it was, so far as possible, to codify its rationale and to civilize its means." (Zinn 232)

Albert Einstein, observing the effects of attempts to "humanize" wars, became more and more anguished." (Zinn 232)

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Tane October 15, 2009 at 11:05pm

A point that most miss is that the U.S. military is not fighting for our democracy and freedom; it is fighting for the supposed rights, freedom and liberty of corporations to do business throughout the world and have a free-reign in its process. it has nothing to do with the people's rights, freedom, and democracy.

I find it laughable when those use the arguments that they are fighting for our freedoms and because of that; we have been allowed free speech, etc. Anyone with common sense can tell you that this is NOT true. The majority of the governments are controlled by an oligarchy of financial and corporate powers that control the whole economic policy and conduct.

The U.S. is made up of what it made up.

Tane
- Pomaikaiokalani > Tane October 16, 2009 at 10:40am
  
  Maikai no oe, e Tane. United States today is at WAR to keep their "Oligarchy of Financial and Corportate Powers" in Total Control around the World. How many American Companies have Closed Down around the World compared to how many American Companies have Closed Down in United States? Like Humbdy Dumpdy, United States is Falling.
  Long Live The Hawaiian Kingdom, o Pomai
Kaohi October 15, 2009 at 6:05pm

"He accepted, as thinkers for the next two hundred years were to accept, that European society was orgnized in a system of states in which war was an inescapable process for the settlement of differences in the absence of any higher common jurisdiction. That being the case, it was a requiremnt of humanity, of religion and of common sense alike that those wars should be fought in such a manner as to cause as little damage as possible.... For better or worse war was an instittution which could not be eliminated from the international system. All that could be done about it was, so far as possible, to codify its rationale and to civilize its means." (Zinn 232)

Albert Einstein, observing the effects of attempts to "humanize" wars, became more and more anguished." (Zinn 232)

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