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Oakland Youth Against Iraq War and Police at Home
Hundreds of youth from the Bay Area will gather to speak out against sending troops to Iraq and adding 100 more cops to the Oakland police force.
Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland City Hall, September 14, 1-5pm
Hundreds of youth from the Bay Area will gather to speak out against sending troops to Iraq and adding 100 more cops to the Oakland police force.
The war abroad has brought direct consequences on youth of color at home, one of them being the dramatic upsurge in violence and death in the community. With $400 billion spent nationally on the military and only $45 billion spent on education, the message being sent by policymakers is that violence is a more preferred tool of getting things done. Cutbacks in education spending, unemployment, and the focus on policies that endorse violence have been devastating on cities like Oakland, which has suffered its 78th+ homicide of the year.
To many youth, spending more on a new war in Iraq and on increasing police at home is not the right solution to the threat of terrorism or more violence at home. Policies of violence and repression do not work. Having been the primary targets and victims of such policies, especially with the increase in incarceration, monitoring in schools, and police brutality, youth of color are advocating for policies that promote peace and understanding both at home and abroad.
Killing innocent people in Iraq will not solve terrorism.
Neither will sending 100 more cops out into the streets to profile, monitor, harass, and brutalize youth of color solve what's going on in Oakland. Instead of war, we want more money for education so we can learn how to get to the root of the crises like terrorism.
"Instead of more police, we want programs that will help us get more jobs and really stop the violence with more opportunities."
- AYPAL, youth organizer
The event on the 14th, entitled "Silence is Violence; Get Loud, Stand Proud," will include a mix of cultural and hip hop dance performances, youth speakers, poets, and vocalists, as young as elementary school age. Other special performers include Deuce Eclipse and Company of Prophets. Participating and supporting organizations include Global Exchange, Park Sessions, Youth Space, Youth Speaks, Not In Our Name, Mandela Arts, Jewish Youth For Community Action, Dancers Without Borders, United Playaz, Colored Ink, True-skool.org, Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center, Diversity Works, and Asian Pacific Islander Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership, among others.
Contact: Alicia Yang
September 12, 2002
(408) 656-2198
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plain and simple. if Iraq Doesnt want us to fight them let the inspectors back in. if they dont it looks like you are hiding something. And since all thouse darn inspectors are looking for is wepons of mass destruction. we have to assume thats what the are hidding. simple eh?
Or maybe Iraq is tired of U.S. spies who masquerade as weapon inspectors as admitted by former U.N. chief weapons inspector (and former Marine nad registered Republican) Scott Ritter in a speech before the Iraqi parliament. But then again a war to steal oil, distract the public from economic and ecological problems, and the problems of nations that actually have WMD like Israel, India, and Pakistan, serves your neo-conservative/fascist agenda, eh Kris?
Or maybe Iraq is tired of U.S. spies who masquerade as weapon inspectors as admitted by former U.N. chief weapons inspector (and former Marine nad registered Republican) Scott Ritter in a speech before the Iraqi parliament. But then again a war to steal oil, distract the public from economic and ecological problems, and the problems of nations that actually have WMD like Israel, India, and Pakistan, serves your neo-conservative/fascist agenda, eh Kris?
Or maybe Iraq is tired of U.S. spies who masquerade as weapon inspectors as admitted by former U.N. chief weapons inspector (and former Marine nad registered Republican) Scott Ritter in a speech before the Iraqi parliament. But then again a war to steal oil, distract the public from economic and ecological problems, and the problems of nations that actually have WMD like Israel, India, and Pakistan, serves your neo-conservative/fascist agenda, eh Kris?
Or maybe Iraq is tired of U.S. spies who masquerade as weapon inspectors as admitted by former U.N. chief weapons inspector (and former Marine nad registered Republican) Scott Ritter in a speech before the Iraqi parliament. But then again a war to steal oil, distract the public from economic and ecological problems, and the problems of nations that actually have WMD like Israel, India, and Pakistan, serves your neo-conservative/fascist agenda, eh Kris?
Spending more money on education will not stop black on black violence in Oakland. That's a tired left wing solution. There is a lack of morals and an abundance of hatred in that community. They have only themselves to blame fro their violent ways. When will people like you stop blaming the government for everything and take responsibility? I do agree though that hiring 100 more cops won't solve anything, if people in communities of color are determined to kill each other , the cops won;t be able to stop it.
Spending more money on education will not stop black on black violence in Oakland. That's a tired left wing solution. There is a lack of morals and an abundance of hatred in that community. They have only themselves to blame fro their violent ways. When will people like you stop blaming the government for everything and take responsibility? I do agree though that hiring 100 more cops won't solve anything, if people in communities of color are determined to kill each other , the cops won;t be able to stop it.
thats an old load of racist rubbish. People are people, the same everywhere, and when there is violence there are causes beyond the colour of their skin. It's ridiculous to assume otherwise.
Many, many more people have died at white hands than at Black hands. Whites are a blood thirsty people. Read their history. The only thing they like to do more than rob, rape, murder and enslave the rest of the world's people, is to kill each other wholesale.
"whites are bloodthirsty"
nuff said
nuff said
"whites are bloodthirsty"
nuff said, mr provocateur. anyone and everyone is equally capable of violence.
nuff said, mr provocateur. anyone and everyone is equally capable of violence.
How many Black people have bombed and burned entire cities to the ground, run networks of death camps, stolen entire continents and enslaved entire races?
ever hear of Rwanda?
now they never stole entire continents but it's not to say they wouldn't be capable of doing so if they were in a position to do so.
But everything else you say has been done by blacks. And whites. And asians.
now they never stole entire continents but it's not to say they wouldn't be capable of doing so if they were in a position to do so.
But everything else you say has been done by blacks. And whites. And asians.
Rwanda = half a million dead
WWII - fifty million dead
WWII - fifty million dead
oh its a numbers game we're playing at is it? Rwanda was just one of dozens of conflicts in Africa. Sudan, Congo, Nigeria, etc etc. Sudan alone 2 million. These are only in recent memory. What about the war between Ethiopa and Somalia. I don't know alot of the history but there is more than enough bloodshed in Africa to go around. White people are not "bloodthirsty" and neither are black people. This is just childish demonization. There are reasons behind these things that happen. Human weaknesses of greed, lust pride anger and revenge.
Bloosthirst is a feature of power, not skin colour. Trying to polarize debate like this is foolish. The greatest genocide in history was committed by Genghis Khan, with a record 30 million killed. http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.CHAP3.HTM
So lets not be distracted. It is not colour of skin that is bloodthirsty. It is the lies and madness of power.
Bloosthirst is a feature of power, not skin colour. Trying to polarize debate like this is foolish. The greatest genocide in history was committed by Genghis Khan, with a record 30 million killed. http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.CHAP3.HTM
So lets not be distracted. It is not colour of skin that is bloodthirsty. It is the lies and madness of power.
ever notice how these folks, one alleging blacks are bloodthirsty and one alleging whites are bloodthirsty, don't challenge each other but instead go for the moderate? Kinda funny, hey? AND MORE THAN A BIT SUSPICIOUS
Israeli Mossad planted bombs in Bali nightclub and killed hundreds in an effort to blame Islamic freedom fighters. Proof here:
http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=34611&group=webcast
http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=34611&group=webcast
You apparently don't know what the word means.
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