[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: [usgp-dx] FW: Jan. 20th Protest - Please Join Us!

[Paul Etxeberri]

>
>----------
>From: "CyberShaman" <drei23 at comcast.net>
>Reply-To: "CyberShaman" <drei23 at comcast.net>
>Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:26:03 -0800
>To: <info at greenpartyus.org>
>Subject: Jan. 20th Protest - Please Join Us!
>
>We desperately need the help of groups like yours to help spread this oh so
>important message.  PLEASE, won't you lend us your list?
>
>There's going to be massive nation-wide Protest on Jan. 20th - People are
>urged not to spend a single Dime or Dollar the day our (once again)
>un-elected president is sworn (once again) into office.  Something's going
>on - we ALL know that - but only by banding together can we have any chance
>of finding out.  Let's send a message in a manner the Corporate and
>Tax-dependant Powers that be will understand.  We desperately need change
>and answers on the following 5 issues:
>
>1)  Elections: The truth about Ohio, and Paper-trials or no more Machines!
>The (true) voice of the people must be heard!!  While we have one, that is.
>Please have no doubt - we are witnessing the steady erosion of our rights!
>
>2)  The steady Corporate buy-out of Government must stop.  Reform is needed
>in both Corporate and Equities reporting and control, and in our campaign
>Contribution system.  Only then can we begin to have a government which
>serves it's people, like the Declaration founded it to be.
>
>3)  Our Product-producing Corporations must find a way to serve Consumers
>without destroying our Environment in the process.  They, all with Polluters
>must come clean... with information at first, so we can ALL work on finding
>a solution.
>
>4)  The Oppression of Native and Indigenous peoples the world over must stop
>immediately!!  They are the oldest silent political prisoners, yet may hold
>the last key to our Future, to restoring balance with our Mother Earth.
>Before it is too late.  (Notice the weather lately?)
>
>5)  We want our media to start educating us - not playing us for fools and
>catering to the lowest mindless denominator.  Let's use all the powers of
>broadcast to start a dialog - worldwide - so be can begin to heal.  Together
>Today.
>
>As you can guess, an economic-based internet-originating pretest can send a
>powerful message in all 5 areas almost immediately.  Let's notify the press.
>Let's make this public.  People feel powerless and need to see their power.
>You know what's at stake - I don't need to tell you.
>
>Previous attempts have fizzled out - this time we need solidarity.  This
>government MUST start serving it's citizens, or if treated like terrorists
>they shall indeed eventually become revolutionaries.  Not threatening
>violence - we would be no better then them otherwise - we seek a peaceful
>solution.  Remember... Gandhi took on an Empire peacefully, too.
>
>Here is what has been said before - please feel free to reproduce or edit,
>as may serve your cause.  And, please keep in mind, your group can always
>claim credit, energize it's membership - and you'll have help behind you
>while you do it.  This helps us all, it really does.
>
>And this is but the start.
>
>My group is called "Sacred Trust" - referring to the trust between the
>Government, and that of the Governed, between all the People of this Earth,
>and their Mother.  You will hear from us again - more is planned.
>
>These are indeed dark times, but it is not yet too late.  Not if we unite.
>
>I thank you,
>
>-=A
>
>The CyberShaman
>
>P.S.  I'm a writer, photographer video jock, graphic designer, and network
>admin desperately seeking a job in the LA area (and willing to relocate,
>too).  If you have any leads on how I can pay my rent and still help "the
>cause", you will not only earn my eternal gratitude, but will add a fire of
>determined passion in everyone's time of need.  I can help, but I also need
>help.  Thanks again.
>
>
>Does our Democracy Matter Anymore?
>
>If you have a short attention span, I'll save you the trouble and get to the
>point... please don't spend a Dime on the 20th - we're trying to send a
>strong, yet peaceful message to our elected leaders that we're just not
>quite happy with the elections and how they came out.  And that's just
>the tip of the iceberg.  From the environment to the steady loss of our
>rights, and all the other important issues in-between (feel free to add
>your thoughts to this list before passing it on).
>
>As a fun side-project, we also want to fairly evaluate whether they're
>even willing to listen to us anymore.
>
>A test, if you will.
>
>Got your attention?  I really do hope so.  This is really important stuff.
>I wouldn't waste my time, and especially yours, if I didn't consider us to
>currently be living through THE single most important moment that I -
>no, we - have faced since I first drew a breath.
>
>The rest down below is just my personal take on things, more details,
>for those who like to think...  (and still have the time and/or attention
>span left to read - though our lack of both, and I surely do feel it too,
>oh'
>brother and sistah, is one of the many things I hope to address for your
>intellectual indulging here).
>
>I'm liberal, very liberal, bordering on Socialist even, I'm starting to
>think.
>Does that make me so strange?  I like clean air, having enough room left
>to go for walks, fair work - for fair pay - and a fair chance of landing it,
>and NO one stealing my rights, land,  or hard-earned cash out of my back
>pocket while at the same time smiling and lying to me on mass media.
>
>My dad will likely say, "Shhh, son, you'll get yourself shot."  Father, I
>deeply honor the life you lovingly bestowed upon me, but can no longer
>remain silent as I see what goes on.  Besides my own, I also value the life
>of any children I may one day bring into this world, as well as the lives of
>those my friends and cousins already have.  They deserve a world to live
>in as well, they really do.  For unfortunately I still remember "Shhh, son,
>Brezhnev might hear you" - I thought that's why we left.
>
>It didn't happen overnight there either, and I am not blind.
>
>Che was shot by the CIA for daring to say that the Indigenous peoples
>of South America shouldn't be separated into competing Nation/States just so
>that America could send their economies into ruin on a Holy quest for
>cheaper
>corporate sourcing, nor should they be sold into slavery to pay rent for
>living,
>simply existing upon the land stolen from their own families not just 100
>years
>prior.  Today civil wars are started, so that Starbucks can maintain the
>price
>of beans.
>
>Joe Hill, gunned down on an American factory floor for daring to try and
>organize
>workers to collectively ask for better working conditions; back then they
>were
>really were life-threatening, you know.  His last message home?  "Don't
>mourn.
>Organize."
>
>Leonard Peltier, a Native American, and a Political Prisoner celebrating his
>27th year without freedom for daring defend land granted him by treaty with
>the invading U.S. Army when his family surrendered at Wounded Knee (not
>that it wasn't his family's land to begin with) from the FBI.  No eye
>witnesses
>were allowed at his trial.  No appeals.  No Parole.  Not Yet.  One of
>Amnesty
>International's original clients!
>
>Think it can't all happen again?  Think those like me, standing  there
>watching us
>steadily lose all that was so dearly fought for are just alarmists?  Well
>then I guess
>the last wars were just too long ago, and on too foreign shores - I guess
>our
>spoiled generation just wouldn't know.  Would we?  Ah, sweet apathy.
>
>Funny how now we live to see yet the third set of elections stolen right
>out
>from under us, despite the clear voice of the popular vote on all three
>counts.
>I won't go into the details of Ohio, thanks to Google you can look it up
>yourself.
>Going into the details of Iraq two years prior didn't help as well.
>
>Funny how Alberto Gonzales, Bush's pick for our next Attorney General
>(that's the man in charge of labeling both myself, and eventually you too,
>dear
>friend, as terrorists, then sending us away to the Gulags of the Department
>of
>Homeland Security) was also one of the ones responsible for those poor Iraqi
>Prisoners of War we all shook our heads in front of photos of.  Can't wait
>to
>see the Constitution-amending Supreme Court Judges this man will soon
>suggest.  Did you know that grandpa banker Preston Bush helped fund dear
>Mr. Hitler, by the way, back in the good old days?
>
>No, I cannot stand by and watch this alliance of Government and Corporation,
>this shift of balance in Power, drive us all towards repeating all those
>same
>gigantic mistakes.  I cannot stand by until the last voices of reason are
>carefully and selectively silenced.
>
>We not only stand to repeat history, but on a much more tragic scale.  Has
>anyone noticed the weather lately?  Has anyone seen "Day After Tomorrow"?
>
>Funny how we now have the worst environmental policy, water, and air since
>before the 1970's.  The last of our precious desert and plague-preventing
>forests (and the animals and people who still happen live in them) are
>quickly
>disappearing.  The Hopi, it is estimated, have just under 8 years left!
>We've
>lost over 500 magnificently diverse species within our own borders since
>Columbus first encroached to rape and search for Gold in 1492.  That's
>roughly
>one each and every year.
>
>Still think I'm wrong?  When was the last time you tried and return
>something,
>or call your local phone company to argue a bill.  Funny how we're gradually
>and
>steadily losing our rights as consumers, and at the same time prices
>continue to go
>up and up, while our wages and free time continue to go ever down.  Some
>work
>three jobs now, some can't find one at all.  Someone you know?  Same loving
>corporations, folks.  See the film "The Corporation", read the public
>records
>of  their Articles of Incorporation.  Their Allegiance is to Profit, it
>never was to
>you, or even Country.
>
>Then visit TrueMajority.org, or other sites whose message you particularly
>like.
>You can do this while you sit at home on Thursday the 20th, not spending a
>dime.
>Visit VoteNader.org - even if you didn't vote for him - there are good ideas
>there,
>just waiting to be read.
>
>Love your country?  So do I.  Love your troops?  Bring them back home to the
>families who love and miss them so.  Love your god?  I'm open-minded, and
>open
>to a meeting (well, with you too).
>
>But, face it - love me or hate me, agree or think me just crazy... I think
>we ALL can
>agree on one simple fact (and it really doesn't matter one damn which god
>you do
>believe in the end, nor how you choose to worship her)... it's getting
>weird around
>here.  The weather, the economy, and especially the politics.
>
>The dime you save sends a message to our leaders about our political
>questions, and
>doubly about the pollution many of our consumable products generate and our
>growing environmental concerns.  Two for the price of one!
>
>No, not calling for revolution here... but some answers both from
>Corporation and
>from Country would be nice.  And the best way to get their attention is to
>hit 'em
>where it hurts (or where they watch).
>
>Some answers, please, and I promise I'll shut up.
>
>None, and -well- someone needs to get all this shit down.  Even if we don't
>have the
>attention span, someone 300 years or so down the road (if any of us survive
>the
>coming Ice Age we brought upon ourselves) might be curious to read, study
>history,
>the way it read before it was rewritten, again by the victors.  Save a copy
>for your kids.
>You might at least get nostalgic one day for souvenirs from the last of your
>youth.
>(You spent it all away working, remember?)
>
>In the meantime, the Religion of Dollar is killing our Planet, our Mother,
>one culture at
>a time.  I am not the first writer or poet or bard to say such things.  Take
>a break from
>TV and shopping, read what others have written in the past.  Educate
>yourself.  Ask
>questions.  Demand answers.
>
>No, not calling for revolution here.  I've got no desire to get shot.  Just
>curious if many
>voices can still make a dent.  Just want to see, find out for myself.  Care
>to find our for
>yourself?
>
>Please re-read these wise words, I beg of you:
>
>"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to
>dissolve
>the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume
>among the
>powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of
>Nature and of
>Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind
>requires that
>they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
>
>We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
>that they are
>endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these
>are Life,
>Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights,
>Governments are
>instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
>governed, --
>That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it
>is the
>Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
>Government."
>
>-- The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
>                                                             In Congress,
>July 4th, 1776.
>
>No, not calling for revolution here.  Gandhi, John Lennon, and Martin Luther
>King all
>did it without a single shot fired.  Except those that later hit them.  Just
>urging us all to
>"be the example we want to see in the world".
>
>But I'd rather not get shot, personally.  Not for writing.  But - then
>again - if Cat Stevens,
>the man who wrote "Peace Train" can get arrested in this modern day and age
>for being
>a "terrorist", then maybe why not?  Let's hang yet another man with ideas up
>on our cross.
>Ideas are dangerous,  please don't dare think.  And if you do, please don't
>say it was
>because of me.  I'd rather not get shot.
>
>Or, of course you still do have the option of reporting my treacherous
>document to
>Homeland Security yourself.  Be a good citizen.  They love the sort who
>don't ask
>questions themselves, who believe everything they hear on TV.  (Yes, I'm
>actually
>attempting to rile you up here.. in-action since the 70's is precisely how
>our generation
>got here to begin with).  But... guess what... when I'm gone you'll know I
>was right.
>But by then it might just be too late.
>
>For sooner or later, when they run out of guys like me, they'll come for
>guys like you.
>And your sons.
>
>In this desperate time, I challenge you not to judge, not to divide (again),
>but to
>unite.  Unite and organize we must... the other side has had decade to do
>likewise.  We have something magickal in this sacred land, something truly
>worth
>hanging onto.  And that's our Democracy.  Our ability to express ideas.  And
>also
>Our Land.
>
>These are indeed difficult times, but it's not yet too late - and it's
>exactly those times
>when we need one another the most.  Don't mourn.  Don't squabble.  Don't
>ignore.
>Organize.
>
>"United We Stand" - I think I remember reading that somewhere.
>We should all re-read it again.
>
>And then we should send them a message in a language that they'll
>understand.
>
>Thanks for reading,
>
>-=A
>
>
>>>  And so it goes without saying,
>>>  that I was very disheartened to see that man be re-elected.  His
>>>  systematic
>>>  deconstruction of every clean air and water law since the 1960's, as well
>>>  attacks on natural preserves, parklands and other endangered habitats and
>>>  his love affair with corporations and greed incarnate, have left my heart
>>>  full of sadness whenever I think of my government.  I won't even go into
>>  the
>>>  War-in-Iraq thing but needless to say it has divided our country.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  On January 20, that man will be sworn in again and again I will be
>>  reminded
>>>  of how much my government saddens me.  So it was with interest when I
>>>  read
>>>  this e-mail urging people like myself to make no purchases on this day.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Yes, previous internet spawned boycotts of gasoline on particular days
>>  have
>>>  met with little success and yes people are merely making their purchases
>>  one
>>>  day earlier or latter, thus a one day boycott has little or no effect on
>>  it
>>>  but I cannot help but feel this little bit of solidarity can make a
>>>  statement those in power can hear.  Perhaps, they will take note and
>>>  recognize that we are not all in agreement.  Perhaps, it will fizzle out
>>>  like other internet inspired boycotts and no one will notice.   If this
>  >> is
>>>  the case, SO BE IT.  At the very least, on the day the Republicans
>>>  rejoice
>>>  in their victory, I will be making a small personal gesture with my
>>  friends,
>>>  that we do not all agree with the way things are being done.  We are not
>>  all
>>>  blindfolded.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  I will not spend ONE DAMN DIME ON JANUARY 20TH.  If, I'm out and I'm
>>  hungry,
>>>  I'll wait till I get home.  If I forget to fill up, I'll bicycle.  If my
>>>  cupboards are bare, I'll visit a friend.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Please join me, JANUARY 20th, and leave your money at home.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  May the powers that be, be with thee,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  J.M.S.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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-- 
Paul Etxeberri

"Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow"   ---Chateaubriand