Is there a nonviolent response to September 11?

Ian Murray seamus2001 at home.com
Tue Oct 9 17:55:54 PDT 2001


From: "Dennis Robert Redmond" <dredmond at efn.org>
> The cruel, grievous reality is, US policies have wrought exactly
this sort
> of violence on other countries for decades. The Israelis would say
exactly
> the same thing about the Palestinians, who would say exactly the
same
> thing about the Israelis, who would... etc. etc. etc. The terminus
of the
> total system is total destruction. Against this, we have to start
> thinking, strategizing, mourning and resisting on a planetary level.
When
> hundreds of thousands of children die of poverty in some Third World
> country thanks to insane policies cooked up by the IMF, we ought to
be as
> terrified and saddened as watching jets taking out skyscrapers. The
real
> Plague/Jihad/Terror is neoliberalism itself.
>
> -- Dennis
================= Well we were learning how to do that and then 9-11 came along.........

The points coming from the establishment about our lack of coherence and positive alternatives should not fall on deaf ears and pessimism is a luxury we cannot afford.

Ian



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