We have had multiple attacks on the wealthy and it appears that the masses have decided they have had enough of the bullshit and want the country back.
When I returned from Vietnam I immersed myself in the antiwar movement and political activism that was in 1971 and I have been disappointed in the last few decades at the way people accept war and all its ugliness.
But recently I have become more optimistic about the role of veterans…..
Capitol Police arrested the protesters, who had gathered in the rotunda holding red tulips and signs reading “End the War on Iran” and “We Can’t Afford Another War.” Many had donned t-shirts with the message “Veterans Against Fascism.”
The action was organized by a coalition of groups, including About Face, Veterans For Peace, Common Defense, the Center on Conscience and War, the Fayetteville Resistance Coalition, Military Families Speak Out, and 50501 Veterans.
Video shared by Reuters showed officers handcuffing the demonstrators and leading them out of the building.
Among those arrested was the Center on Conscience and War’s executive director and Iraq war veteran Mike Prysner.
“The war I was sent to senselessly claimed the lives of thousands of Americans and a million Iraqis. Like the other veterans here with me today, I have spent the last two decades wishing I could turn back the hands of time and refuse to go,” Prysner said in a statement before his arrest.
“Service members have that chance right now. Conscientious Objection is your legal right, and we have professional counselors who will fight to ensure you are approved and kept from deployment,” he continued.
“I am getting arrested to raise awareness about that option, because now is the time.”
(tag24.com)
Bravo!
Do not let it stop there….keep up the pressure…..we have a nation to win back.
Now the so-called ‘anarchists’ are calling for mass protests as May Day approaches….
Anarchists have issued a global call to take to the streets and protest on May 1 in the name of anti-authoritarian solidarity for their annual May Day event.
They have called on groups and individuals “to reinvigorate May 1st.”
The radical demonstrators say that for the past decade, uncertainty, poverty and police “democracy” are dominating too many peoples’ lives.
“Austerity for all is now simply just the way things are. Ten years of worsening conditions, now it seems that cracks are beginning to form,” the anonymous writers said in their call for action on the open publishing platform autonomies.net.
The unsigned missive described how for many years, the first day of May was an opportunity to show “global revolutionary solidarity” through anarchist actions, parades, parties and global events that would inspire them to “move forward.”
“This moment in time is not sustainable. Brutal war, climate catastrophe and failing austerity economies are shared realities for a vast majority of people,” they said, asserting that people have “lost all faith in the global social and political order. Everyone is waiting and cheering for its end.”
Anarchist is only a dirt word to those that are not smart enough to grasp what the movement is all about.