Ray McGovern & Cindy Sheehan to lead March on the White House
World Can’t Wait just announced their next major protest- October. Anyone else think that’s a little funny?
Last year the Downing Street Memo came out on May 1st, soon after UFPJ announced the big rally for Sept 24th. Why do they always skip over the summer months? Because that’s when the weather is nice, and people might actually have the time to camp and stay.
The crooks in power don’t care if we schedule another weekend protest- the one thing they don’t want is an extended protest like the Ukranians had. Several weeks of peaceful demonstration led to their President stepping down. That’s what we need.
We sure as hell don’t need this pathetic Congress to investigate anything else- at this point asking for another committee is just plain insanity.
Let’s think about this- do George Bush and Dick Cheney and the complicit fools in Congress want 500,000 Americans camping out on their front porch? No. So why are we appeasing them? They don’t want us camping on the Capitol mall- so we should do just that.
Thursday May, 18th Cindy Sheehan and Ray McGovern (mp3) are meeting at Lafayette park near the White House, then Marching to Rumsfeld’s personal residence. Wouldn’t it be great if someone brought a video cameda, and it’s thousands of people standing outside Rummy’s house, singing along to #3 from Neil Young’s new album, “Don’t Need- No More Lies!” In fact that ought to be on repeat over at the big protest camp going up on the DC Capitol Mall- with the speakers turned to Congress and cranked to 11.
March on the Capitol,
Stay Until the Nightmare is Over.
The DC Capitol Mall was created as a place for citizens to gather and protest their grievances to the government- that is it’s purpose.
Isn’t it time to use that space for an extended protest?
If not now when?
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May 10th, 2006 at 5:44 pm
Has Cindy realized that UFPJ and ANSWER are cointelpro fronts? I was reading some of your earlier posts about Crawford and couldn’t agree more. The “paid protesters” are the ones who rush to the front. I’d suggest that we all be suspicious of protest leaders with no visible means of support. In my experience this usually means CIA, Sharpton for example. The Left Gatekeepers actually serve the government — mustn’t take NY Central Park, keep protest groups small and separated, offer up the most unappealing roster of speakers as far as middle America is concerned (yet plead purity of cause, rainbow diversity and all that), ridicule all 911 conspiracy theories -can’t have any linkage to anti Iraq war movement (similarly during the Vietnam War, antiwar leaders, such as Kerry, did everything possible to keep any linkage between the war and JFK’s assassination from forming in the public mind), etc.
Actually what do you think happened at the Pentagon on 911.
Regards, MP
May 14th, 2006 at 8:00 am
I fully support this kind of action but isn’t it a bad idea to attack groups with a similar goal ? That is sure way not to get them out and also to fracture the movement. What we need is unity to be effective.
May 15th, 2006 at 11:05 am
Just thought I’d share some thoughts and suggestions on related music (in reference to the role of Neil Young’s new track).
Prostest music, believe it or not, seems to be on the upswing. Neil Young, along with Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Green Day, and even more pop-oriented acts like Pink and Madonna have gotten into the act. Heck, even Eminem has taken shots at Bush.
One of my favorites to emerge, though, is a song called “Girl in the War” by Josh Ritter. He’s an excellent singer-songwriter and any fan of Dylan would be well advised to check out his new CD called “The Animal Years.”
http://www.joshritter.com/album_animal.shtml
The point of all of this, though, is that I think there is a growing sense in this country that things need to change and that music provides an excellent means of mobilizing people.
September 18th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
Perhaps if 500,000 people marching on Washington, D.C. were carrying handcuffs, the government might get the message.