ANSWER and the Answer

Max Sawicky sawicky at bellatlantic.net
Thu Apr 11 14:17:07 PDT 2002


Not bad at all. But the connection between the Israeli campaign and "corporate globalization" is not very well established. Not at all, in fact, except via guilt by association. I also disagree with the implication that this campaign has nothing to do with Israeli security. From the Sharon govt's standpoint this is all about security -- smashing the Palestine Authority's security apparatus and other civil infrastructure, ruining what there is of an economy on the West Bank, scaring the hell out of people, etc.

I'm not just a critic. I do go to these things. Went to the one today, in fact, at the State Dept. I thought it was going to be civil disobedience but it turned into an endless Michael Lerner seminar. I got bored and left.

mbs


>
> Here's the anti-capitalist call to action:
>
> Call for Anti-Capitalist Action
> Against Sharon and Racism
>
> A war is currently being waged against
> the Palestinian people by the state of
> Israel and by the United States. Their
> prime motivation is not to protect Israel,
> but to protect the elite and their agenda
> of corporate globalization. The Israeli
> military is forcing people from their
> homes and killing innocent civilians
> in cold blood, while the people of
> Palestine are fighting to keep their
> homeland. This war is funded by US
> tax dollars, and directed by the war
> criminal Ariel Sharon, who fully
> supports the atrocities committed by
> the Israeli military.
>
> We refuse to support this racist brutality
> which has led to thousands of
> deaths, and left many more people homeless.
> We intend to show our
> resistance to the Israeli occupation
> of Palestine territories, and to the
> capitalist system which perpetuates
> this kind of violence, through
> whatever means are necessary.
>
> On April 22, Ariel Sharon will be arriving
> in Washington, DC, to speak
> at the annual conference of the American
> Israeli Public Affairs
> Committee (AIPAC). The A22 Collective
> is calling for militant,
> anti-capitalist action on that day
> to show our opposition to the war
> criminal Sharon and our solidarity
> with the people of Palestine. We
> cannot support the racist policies
> of Sharon, the state of Israel, and its
> chief supporters in the United States,
> AIPAC.
>
> We invite those who are interested
> to join us in direct action, or to
> create their own affinity groups to
> perform autonomous actions. We
> also call for an anti-capitalist bloc
> to be formed at the protest outside
> the AIPAC conference, as we join with
> many other groups to denounce
> the policies of war criminal Ariel
> Sharon.
>
> We can no longer remain silent. The
> situation in the occupied territories
> worsens every day, and no end is in
> sight. We demand that this
> state-led terrorism be stopped.
>
> While we plan to use militant direct
> action to demonstrate our own
> opposition, we support a diversity
> of tactics, and ask that everyone who
> opposes the war against Palestine show
> their opposition on April 22
> through whatever means they feel are
> effective.
>
> Although we condemn the policies of
> Ariel Sharon and the Israeli
> military, we stress that we are not
> against Judaism or the Jewish
> people. Indeed, we seek a world where
> all religions and cultures are
> given an opportunity to flourish, free
> of oppression from governments
> and institutions that promote fear,
> hate, and war.
>
> The A22 Collective will be holding
> a spokes council meeting the night of
> Saturday, April 20 to plan our actions.
> The location for this meeting will
> be announced at a later date. Affinity
> groups should send a spoke to that
> meeting to discuss several preplanned
> scenarios. Updates and more
> information at http://www.mashriq.org/A22.
> Contact phone number will be posted soon.
>
> http://media.iww.org
> http://www.mashriq.org



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