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Saying No to War and Occupation: Teach-in and Peace March

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rivertext > At the teach-in before the protest marking the 2nd year of the American occupation Mazen Malik spoke about how insulting it is to for Palestinians to hear Pres. Bush brag about bringing democracy to the Middle East. I thought about election night when the voting machines programmed by Bush's backers at the Diebold corporation cranked out the opposite results from the exit polls.

rivertext > That election night I told one of the many young people I had worked with to defeat Bush, "The darkness has fallen and we won't see the end of it in our lifetime." And she said, "In your lifetime, maybe. I'm 24." This photo of the audience at the activism workshop that concluded the teach-in shows Shizuko (on the left), one of my comrades from the struggle to defeat Bush.

rivertext > Nearly twice as many of our soldiers died in the 2nd year of our occupation of Iraq as died in first year of the conflict. The lowest estimate of the cost of the war to U.S. taxpayers is 200 billion dollars. However, the cost of this war is higher than the total of the dead and the dollars we've spent on it.

rivertext > Once only the radicals spoke of a class war. Now mainstream economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman writes about Bush's 2005 budget: "It may sound shrill to describe President Bush as someone who takes food from the mouths of babes and gives the proceeds to his millionaire friends. Yet his latest budget proposal is top-down class warfare in action."

rivertext > "First, the facts: the budget proposal really does take food from the mouths of babes. One of the proposed spending cuts would make it harder for working families with children to receive food stamps, terminating aid for about 300,000 people. Another would deny child care assistance to about 300,000 children, again in low-income working families."

rivertext > "It so happens that the number of taxpayers with more than $1 million in annual income is about the same as the number of people who would have their food stamps cut off under the Bush proposal. But it costs a lot more to give a millionaire a break than to put food on a low-income family's table: eliminating limits on deductions and exemptions would give taxpayers with incomes over $1 million an average tax cut of more than $19,000." - Paul Krugman, NYTimes, 2/11/05

At the teach-in before the protest marking the 2nd year of the American occupation Mazen Malik spoke about how insulting it is to for Palestinians to hear Pres. Bush brag about bringing democracy to the Middle East. I thought about election night when the voting machines programmed by Bush's backers at the Diebold corporation cranked out the opposite results from the exit polls.

> At the teach-in before the protest marking the 2nd year of the American occupation Mazen Malik spoke about how insulting it is to for Palestinians to hear Pres. Bush brag about bringing democracy to the Middle East. I thought about election night when the voting machines programmed by Bush's backers at the Diebold corporation cranked out the opposite results from the exit polls.

At the teach-in before the protest marking the 2nd year of the American occupation Mazen Malik spoke about how insulting it is to for Palestinians to hear Pres. Bush brag about bringing democracy to the Middle East. I thought about election night when the voting machines programmed by Bush's backers at the Diebold corporation cranked out the opposite results from the exit polls.

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