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Congress was wrong in voting 1st strike authority to Bush, we must oppose the exercise of that authority. We must put pressure on Bush and Congress against 1st strike. I think we should continue with our open letter/petition effort by making it simpler and sending it to the president and Congress. I think the slogans on our petition to Congress are sufficient. No 1st Strike on Iraq or Any place else. Funds For Peace Not For War. Raza Humana Si Guerra No. We should address it to the President and Congress, with cc's to the United Nations and the Supreme Court.
Much more is needed of course, this petitioning should be seen as a step towards more. We must find ways to express opposition to the war in the elections that create the potential for reversing the war policies democratically. We should participate in demonstrations opposing war when they are called, and call our own. Who wants to do something at the Placita or downtown federal building? [In every city and state] ASAP!
No Latino Democrat representative voted war authority; all voted against save Ortiz who was not in attendance. This reflects our communities especially strong opposition to war and desire for peace. We have paid too high a price in unjust wars of the past, we can see through the prejudice, lies and yes racism of the war mongerers more easily, we have greater need for spending for peace on health, jobs, education, etc. Our community is in a position to play a very strong role in the peace movement so desperately needed by our nation and world; we have started doing that. Let's continue. Rosalio Munoz
Women at War: Backgrounds For A Chicana Vietnam War Novel by Michael Sedano, Ph.D
Book groups deserve entertaining titles, and enjoy them all the better when the work not only offers pleasurable reading but also informs important issues in the group's daily experience. For such groups, I recommend Stella Pope Duarte's Let Their Spirits Dance. The novel introduces a new author whose entertaining style and intensely moving emotional experience offers a reward in itself. But here is an important novel for teachers with Chicana and Chicano students because Duarte's novel informs these kids' oft-neglected and mistold history through an historically accurate portrait of anti-war organizing in the Chicana Chicano movement. Readers with a personal commitment to peace and justice will find this a work to urge upon young people to read. The President-select's wanton urgency to make war brings youth into the administration's cross hairs. Youth--particularly the poor and non-white kids who will die as sacrificial proxies to feed the ambition of undeserving politicians--need to know about peace organizing, need to give humane consideration to the cost of war on themselves, their families, and the nation's values. Let Their Spirits Dance opens doors to these vitally important considerations.
AZTLANNET_ACTION ANTI-WAR PETITION Latinos Speak Out Against War: An Action for Peace and Social Justice. We do not want the Bush administration to carry out a "1st strike" attack on Iraq or any other nation. We have seen no evidence to support the administration's allegations that Iraq constitutes a threat to U.S. national security. We believe that military escalation is not the road to lessening tensions in the Middle East nor will it reduce the threat of terrorism.
As a community that has sacrificed many of its young in U.S. wars, we resent the campaign of fear and prejudice being waged by the Bush administration to justify militaristic foreign and domestic policies and so we must speak out. We do NOT believe in this war. We will not ACCEPT the Bush Administration’s predetermination of war. Therefore the Bush administration's predetermination of war must be opposed. Bush's campaign of fear and prejudice is a corruption of our nation's pledge of liberty and justice for all.
Latinos Take a Stand Against the War in Iraq.
We demand that our country and Latino representatives reject the administration's unjust war against Iraq and anywhere else. We will not be silenced & let Bush and his extreme right wing administration slaughter innocent Iraqi People…Not In Our Name!
Petition Closed
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Chicano Moratorium CALL FOR LETTERS PG 1 Amigos of Aztlannet.com
Moratorium History
PG 2 Remembering August 29, 1970
From Saigon to Laguna Park
PG 3 There Was a Time of Chicano
Commentary About "Let's Not Forget"
PG 4 Transcript of Tape 231
We Were All Victims of the War
PG 5 Chicano Moratorium Struggle
I congradulations you on your effort to archive this mementous and historical critical time in Chicano history /
PG 6 The Day The Police Rioted!
"Silver Medals" Maria Herrera Sobek Face Of Silver-Cara De Bronce and GLOPE
PG 7 Chicano Moratorium Aug. 29, 1970
To Build An Anti-War Movement
PG 8 Brown Berets National Organization
Fighting Injustice
PG 9 What I Saw at Laguna Park
A Re-Demonstration of the Chicano Movement
PG 10 Women of the Chicano Moratorium
"My Quick Thoughts"
The Chicano Moratorium "2002"
PG 11 He Taught Us All
Peace The Fruit of Justice
PG 12 Letters to Aztlannet@Yahoo!Group
PG 13 Photos/Graphics Memorabilia
http://www.geocities.com/mvsedano/pg1.htm http://members.aol.com/msedano/marcha.mov The linkss above takes you a slide show and movie to view committee meetings and activities of the recently engaged "2002" Chicano Moratorium/Aztlannet events. The movie will take a lot time to download-It's 3 megs, Be Patient, it's worth your time to see.
Resistance Click! HERE
Rosalio Munoz Speech Refusing Induction Sept. 16, 1969
Baghdad by Reyes Cárdenas
Chale Guerra by Gregg Barrios
Un recuerdo by Ralph Molina
Litany 2003, Coda
A time to raise questions by Trinidad Sánchez
The War by Eduardo Galeano
CounterPunch
Poetry No First Strike in Iraq or Anywhere Else the bush league team wants a world series with a first strike on Iraq, the first strike is the last strike, is a strikeout, their bats are boomerangs that will return with full force and added vengeance, they pitch reasons for war, the catcher has a broken hand, they search for a blind receiver, the outfield is far from home, where collateral damage is acceptable, the warning track silent, the bull pen talks to the press, throws them a wicked curve masked as truth, there are double plays, double dealing, a lot of stolen bases, errors disappear from the box score, our gente disappear from familias, generals pin medals on veiled lagrimas, we never hear the score, just see long open wounds, the world's children boxed for burial, we once were connected, back in the day, way back, now we could be splintered, shattered, by the first strike, the last strike, the strikeout. Phil Goldvarg 9/6/02 --Inspired by the No First Strike draft of Rosalio Munoz y Jorge Mariscal [ Para Los Signers ] Los nombres stretch along air, curve under old dreams, demand a hearing, there is no covering of faces, disguise for safety, pretending to be warrior, los nombres carry the heart, tradition of familia, sangre de abuelitos, they are filled con luchas, survival among oppression, circle of loving arms, los nombres are lines of letters, joined by la historia, breath of hope, they are painted in murales, printed in poesia, scrolled en cuentos, los nombres are voices, gritos por el mundo, hermanas y hermanos on the edge of death, for los ninos, hungry and cold, in the ice night of vengeance, los nombres are us, our dancing ancestors, futuro de cantos, they are los otros, sin voz, one foot in a mass grave, los nombres are our youth, sacrificed at the throne of greed, exchange of sangre for oil, lagrimas is the ink of grief that will not fade under an oppressors hand, los nombres are rivers flow, sun's rise, sonrisa de la luna, they are us in resistencia, ofrenda de nosotros. By Phil Goldvarg 10/6/02 Not In Our Name Not in our name will you murder this world, disappear our children, cremate our future, pit sisters and brothers against each other, not in our name will you sign death warrants to mother earth, while you mass weapons in greedy hands, finger on the trigger, eye on multiple targets, not in our name will you dismiss collateral damage, result of smart bombs that are dumb, will you drink innocent blood, evaporate fleshless evidence into nameless mass graves, not in our name will you make midnight arrests, hold secret trials in dark shadows, take our rights without a thought, stop dissenting voices that question your self indulgent motives, not in our name will you embargo children and elders into a grave of hunger, will you speak with two tongues, cover homicide and genocide with a self proclaimed king's mask, not in our name will you feed ghost corporations that claim earth, water and sky for themselves, will you silently swallow our Arab and immigrant sisters and brothers, not in our name will you consume La Nena, Isla de Vieques, will you push plan Panama across a Mayan dream, a child's breath, not in our name will you stop resistance to this abusive regime, will you profit by treason that bargains away all human life, not in our name, not in our name, not in our name. Phil Goldvarg 3/11/02 © | ||||
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