S29: GLOBAL ACTION DAY AGAINST WAR

Rumours abound that the anti-IMF protests are now ANTI-WAR protests.

The Taliban regime has been given 72 hours
to hand over Osama Bin Laden. Thus war
may be imminent.

The Afghan Ambassador in Pakistan, interviewed on Canadian Television, said the Afghan Courts would have to decide whether the evidence presented by the US regarding Bin Laden's alledge guilty was sufficient.

Many Americans might like to see the evidence themselves. However, the current dictatorial government in Washington, with its newly acquired War Powers, is unlikely to tell anyone what evidence it has.

"We cannot compromise our security," they
will say. Bush said, "I cannot, I will not, say what information we have," in answer to
a reporter's question yesterday. He then
ended the brief press conference, lasting
a little over three minutes.

It appears that without evidence, without
a meaningful debate on the issue in the
corporate controlled press, and without
any critical discussion in our legislative
bodies, we will go to war with whomever
Bush chooses to send us to war, whenever
he chooses, and however he chooses.

Canadian television reports that the European support for the US apparent determination to go to war is weak, even among heads of state.

The political climates in France, Germany,
and Italy is not favorable to US moves
to go on the warpath.


The invocation
of the Nato treaty is widely believed by
the European press to be PR, and only Tony
Blair expresses enthusiasm for joining in a
widespread war.

If the war is wide or prolonged (as Bush seems to imply it will be) support in Europe will dissolve overnight. Those who protest
in the US will be supported from abroad.

The Anti-IMF, anti-World Bank protests
will go forward as anti-War protests,
which may still have the support of
tens of thousands of demonstrators, if
the networks which are already in place
stay active, and continue to organize.

People are on the move, and the pressure
is coming from the bottom up on the leadership of some groups which are still in shock about the bombings. Some hesitate going forward, feeling that the public feeling will not tolerate anti-War demonstrations. But the vast majority
of anti-IMF protestors, on the grassroots level, appear to be committed to preventing another meaningless war, which may be more devastating than Vietnam, especially if , as Powell and Rumsfeld keep saying it is, a sustained all out war on all terrorists and states which support terrorists.

More breaking news:

Demonstrations in all the main cities of
Pakistan against the government's decision
to "cooperate with the US." One US military
intelligence expert, interviewed on Canada's
NWI, said that Pakistan is on the knife's edge.
The US intelligence community worries that if the US pushes Pakistan too hard, the Islamic fundamentalists in the Pakistani military may wrest control from the currrent leadership, and convert the Pakistant into the first Muslim Fundamentalist state with nuclear weapons, "a truly appalling prospect," the expert said.

Neighboring Tajikistan, which has a strong
Russian military presence, announced it would NOT allow US forces to make any moves on Afghanistan from their territory.

Bush tells America "To get back to work . . ."

The capitalist machine must keep churning,
and people should not have time to reflect on the future.

As history teaches, when the people reflect
on their anger and their desire for vengeance, they vote for leniency [Thucydides tells how in Democratic Athens, the Assembly of the People voted to slaughter to entire population of the city of Mytilene, which had betrayed them during the war with Sparta. However, a second debate was held, and speakers argued that
anger and the desire for vengeance should
not serve as the basis of policy. Those
who were guilty should be punished, but the
innocent should be spared. After the debate,
the People's Assembly voted to show mercy
to the innocent inhabitants of Mytilene]

Of course we do not have an Assembly which'
will vote on our future course of action, because all war making powers have been delegated to our unelected and unaccountable executive, who, like the Dictators of Roman days, appointed during emergencies, received full carte blanche to act as they saw fit.

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weltweite infos und termine gegen den krieg:  http://peace.protest.net

infos zum S29 in Washington:  http://www.abolishthebank.org
 http://www.iacenter.org
 http://www.americas.org/lasc/

infos zum S29 in Los Angeles:
 http://www.sep29.org/

...auch in Montreal, Kanada ist für den S29 bereits was geplant...

-------------> MOVE ON !!