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.
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>
> 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