VVAW/OSS Launches Amnesty For Resisters Campaign

Vietnam Veterans Against The War

Old School Sapper Caucus

Honor The warrior ~ Not The War

Photo: Marcia Milam Westbrook

PLEASE ALLOW US TO INTRODUCE OURSELVES…

Who We Are

VVAW/OSS is a 41 member strong caucus of Old School VVAW types, most of whom, following the VVAW 40^th Reunion in 2007, were listed as VVAW Regional Contacts in the VVAW‘s “The Veteran” newspaper. Many were members of the Veterans Advisory & Resource Group, a committee appointed by the VVAW National Steering Committee to review organizational policy and operations and make recommendations for reform. 

We came together as an active caucus of VVAW at the Kent State 40^th anniversary because we believed that after a yearlong review, and input from VVAW members past and present and who hailed from throughout the U.S., that VVAW needed to be more focused on an anti-war agenda, and more actively outspoken regarding U.S. involvement in the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan, and in the affairs of other nations, under the guise of “building democracy”.  A concept and policy which our caucus believes is simply continuing U.S. and multi-national corporate imperialism, and must be brought to an end, just as we brought the war in Vietnam to an end; by taking our Truth, to the streets and winning the hearts and minds of the American people. 

What We Do

Since May of 2010, we have been active in two national gatherings at the White House, we held a caucus at the 2011 VFP convention in Portland,, Ore., we have been active with IVAW, attending two South East Regional Retreats regarding movement building,  and participating with IVAW in the recent March for Justice and Reconciliation during the NATO Summit, where VVAW/OSS represented the Toronto Resisters and one of our OSS members who had tossed his medals at Dewey Canyon III, stood in for the Toronto Resisters and tossed their medals back to NATO, for them.

In that same and continuing spirit of activism, and again initially on behalf of the Toronto Resisters, we have as a caucus set out for ourselves the task of initiating a grass-roots campaign for Amnesty for Resisters.   VVAW/OSS has developed this initiative from working with the current Toronto Resisters, upon hearing that they wanted to come home. We believe that they never should have had to leave in the first place.  In 1973, VVAW, after attending an International Amnesty Conference in Toronto, initiated its original Amnesty  for Vietnam Resisters that same year.  Amnesty was enacted incrementally, but successfully by both President Ford, 1974, and President Carter, 1977.  Carter’s Amnesty went further than did Ford’s, and met more of the demands of the Left, regarding the topic. We wish to do the same for today’s Resisters…we hope y’all will join with us in this important effort.

We will be attending the 2012 Veterans For Peace  Convention in Miami, where will launch our Amnesty initiative by presenting our case to VFP for support for our Amnesty for our campaign.  We will be seeking not only the support of  VFP as an national organization, but of its chapters and individual members from out in the grass-roots as well, as we begin to build a coalition of organizations and individuals who wish to actively work with us in bringing about Amnesty for the current generation of Resisters living abroad.

How You Can Help 

In support of furthering our initiative, we are attempting to raise the funds to bring our Toronto VVAW/OSS member, who many of you on FB know as Nick Velvet, down to Miami to speak for the Resisters. Nick knows these folks personally and works closely with them there in Toronto. Nick, who returned his own medals to the government at Operation Dewey Canyon III in 1971, represented the Toronto Resisters at the IVAW March for Justice & Reconciliation during the NATO Summit held there 20 May 2012.  Nick marched with the IVAW troops who were to return their medals to NATO, and at the medal toss he threw back the Toronto Resisters’ medals to NATO on their behalf, becoming the only two time medal toss Veteran in history. 

Photo: Ward Reilly

If you would  like to join us in launching the VVAW/OSS Amnesty for Resisters campaign, and get Nick to Miami, please donate whatever you are able to; no donation is too small…we will need at least $500.00…your donation is tax deductible, so print and save your receipt with Purpose annotated…if you are unable to donate, at least please share this letter with a friend…

If you able to donate, please simply click on the DONATE button located under "Join The Fight..." in left side bar of this page.

Unity - Struggle - Victory

Willie Hager

Operations Coordinator

VVAW/OSS

willie.hager@vetspeak.org

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NATO Summit, Chicago, 05/20/2012 - IVAW Medal and Awards Return

MARCH FOR JUSTICE AND RECONCILIATION
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Sunday May 20th supported by thousands of people Afghanistan and Iraq veterans will march to NATO Summit to ceremoniously return their military service medals.
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10AM - Music at Petrillo Music Shell (E. Jackson Dr. & S Columbus Dr.)
1030AM - Musical Guest Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman
2PM - Step off from Petrillo Music Shell (E. Jackson Dr. & S. Columbus Dr.)
3PM - Ceremony to return military service medals (Michigan Ave. & E. Cermak Rd.)
5PM - Post event hang out with musical guest Watermellon Slim at Simones 960 W. 18th St.
IVAW Members register today to March and return your medals.

We, Afghanistan and Iraq veterans, from around the country have united with CANG8 Coalition aginst NATO/G8 war and poverty agenda  to converge in Chicago on May 20th for a unity march to the NATO summit and ceremoniously return our service medals to NATO generals. We were awarded these medals for serving in the Global War on Terror, a war based on lies and failed polices. This endless war has killed hundreds of thousands, stripped the humanity of all involved, and drained our communities of trillions of dollars, diverting funds from schools, clinics, libraries, and other public goods.

Iraq Veterans Against the War calls on fellow service members, veterans, Chicagoans, and everyone who believes in justice, dignity, and respect for all peoples to join us in the streets on May 20th. On this day, we will hold a nonviolent march to the site of the NATO summit where we will ceremoniously return our military service medals. We will demand that NATO immediately end the occupation of Afghanistan and relating economic and social injustices, bring U.S. war dollars home to fund our communities, and acknowledge the rights and humanity of all who are affected by these wars. We wish to begin a process of justice and reconciliation with the people of Afghanistan and other affected nations, fellow service members, veterans, and the American people.

The city of Chicago will host the NATO summit from May 20th-21st. NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is an organization of western military superpowers whose combined military might is the world's largest and most powerful military force. The NATO mission in Afghanistan has dragged on for over a decade, to the detriment of the people of Afghanistan, military service members and their families, and our communities.

The recent news that the G8 summit, originally set to take place in Chicago this May, has been moved to Camp David shows that the world's large economies fear the mass mobilization and collective organizing of the people of Chicago. NATO should also be advised that the world's military superpowers, responsible for unjust wars, occupations, and militarism, are also not welcome in our hometown. We are emboldened by the knowledge that Chicagoans' call for popular mobilizations was enough to move the G8 out of our city. We must now harness this same people power to send the message loud and clear to NATO that they too will be met with resistance. Furthermore, even though the G8 and NATO will now be held apart from each other, we know that these two summits, and the interests they represent, are linked. War, austerity, poverty, and economic exploitation by the 1% go hand in hand.

It is time for us to take a stand and make our voices heard. We stand in international solidarity with the people of Afghanistan and all the people of the world who are demanding their right to self-determination, their human rights, and economic justice.

To cosponsor the march or for more information contact chicago@ivaw.org             217-898-9083    

Sponsors:

ADAPT

American Friends Service Committee

CANG8

Chicago Democratic Socialists of America

Chicago Jobs With Justice

Civilian Soldier Alliance

Delaware Valley Veterans for America

Grassroutes Caravan

Michael Moore

Military Families Speak Out

Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild,

Move the Money

National Nurses United

Network for a NATO Free Future

Occupy Chicago

Peace Action

Protest Chaplains of Chicago

Rogers Park Food Not Bombs

Social Justice Council of the First UU Church of Chicago

STOP

UE Western Region

UIUC GEO's Solidarity Committee

United for Peace and Justice

US Labor Against the War

Veterans for Peace

Vietnam Veterans Against the War

Vietnam Veterans Against the War/Old School Sappers

Voices for Creative Nonviolence

WI Network for Peace and Justice


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IN MEMORIAM

Marv Davidov: My Friend, My Inspiration

Michael Orange, 3/21/12

Ed Note: Michael is a personal friend, fellow Marine and a regular VetSpeak.org contributor. We have been friends since we met at the IVAW Winter Soldier investigation in 2008, at the US Labor College in Silver Spring, Maryland.  He and his wife Cynthia have appeared on our pages numerous times since then. Even with his passing we, as a leaderless  Occupy Movement, have a lot to learn from Marv Davidov, as we all try and shake off our winter doldrums, and mount our Occupy Spring Offensive; and that lesson is Leadership by Example & ORGANIZE!. WH

Marv Davidov, the man the noted historian, Howard Zinn, called “the apostle of nonviolent direct action,” died on January 14 at 80 years of age. The litany of Davidov’s life as a devoted advocate matches the turbulent history of the peace, justice, labor, and environmental movements over the last six decades. He was a Freedom Rider and protester on the Peoples March on Washington, a hunger striker in several Southern jails, a union organizer, a protector of family farms and Native American rights, an anti-war activist, and a riveting speaker and teacher.

Best known for founding the Honeywell Project in 1968, a worldwide movement to stop the production of indiscriminate weapons of war, Marv also founded the Minnesota chapter of the War Resisters League and helped found the Minnesota Campaign to Ban Land Mines, which was part of the international organization that was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.

With Marv’s life of dedication and unflagging work across the country, it would be hard to find a famous peace and justice worker who didn’t know Marv. He was admired and embraced by the likes of Phil Berrigan, Fr. Daniel Berrigan, Dave Dellinger, and Noam Chomsky, to name a few. In fact, the Justice Studies Association chose Marv for its 2007 Noam Chomsky Award. To honor Marv and his contributions, the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and the Minnesota House of Representatives proclaimed March 10 as Marv Davidov Day.

Soon after he died, I was in Marv’s room at a local nursing home helping his closest friend, Barbara Mishler, and my wife, Cynthia, with his possessions. We stepped out of the room when the man from the Cremation Society arrived so he could do his job. A few minutes later, he told us he would now bring out Marv's body. He slowly wheeled the blanket-draped gurney out of the room and paused where the three of us had lined up to offer our deep respect and love for this giant of the peace and justice community. We said our last goodbyes and stood there for a few moments more, almost at attention, as one would do when the body of a dignitary or national hero passes for military review.

Marv and I were both in the service, and I thought of saluting but dismissed the idea even though it always struck me that the story I heard Marv tell repeatedly was about the incident while in the Army that launched his activist vocation. He refused to participate in the brutal beating of another soldier and that act of courage resulted in his own beating. If it wasn’t his Greek fisherman’s cap that covered his head, it was his faded Veterans for Peace hat, and as a fellow member of the organization, I wanted to pay tribute to his bravery.

Although acquaintances for two decades, Marv and I became good friends after he agreed to address the students in a class I co-taught in 2007 about Vietnam and the 60s. Wearing his Honeywell Project T-shirt (as did I), his bushy white hair exploded from under his Vets for Peace cap. “Mine was a breach birth,” he began. “I came out feet first kicking and then screaming and I’ve been doing it ever since.” Then he recounted his Army story, fresh as if it was the first time, complete with his characteristic drawn-out vowels and no-holds-barred-expletives. He finished an hour and a half later only pausing occasionally to breathe. He so transfixed the students that they ranked his presentation as the highlight of the course.

On that Saturday morning with Marv, January 14, Cynthia and I joined Barbara and two other close friends of Marv at his bedside as he lay dying. His breathing was somewhat labored and, for a time, he seemed to try to speak to Barbara who sat close to him on his bed.

Earlier, Barbara described some of the last words Marv spoke the night before he died. “I said to him, ‘Marv, what should I do with the rest of my life?’ He thought for a long, long time; so long that I thought he forgot the question. Finally, he turned to me and said: ‘You must locate your deepest private feelings—philosophical, religious and spiritual—and then decide to live out these beliefs in a commensurate way, in public, as much as possible without compromise.’ It’s no surprise I loved and admired him immensely.”

As we gathered close around Marv, Cynthia sang him the Beetles’ lullaby, Goodnight. He reached up to touch Barbara and she held his hand gently. He relaxed and his breathing grew softer. At about 1:15 p.m., he turned his face and gaze towards the ceiling as if he recognized something (or someone), then shut his eyes and died peacefully moments later.

Over the last months of his life, we started a little ritual when I visited him. I always gave him a little kiss on the top of his bald head as he laid in his bed and we both said I love you. Just before the tall man in the long black-leather coat took Marv for his last trip, I completed my role in our ritual one last time.

About the Author:

Michael Orange, a member of VFP Chapter 27 since 1991, served as a Marine in Vietnam and experienced combat in numerous search-and-destroy missions and patrols during his one-year tour of duty. Afterwards, he returned to his former university campus, Kent State, in May 1970, just before Ohio National Guardsmen shot thirteen of his fellow students, killing four. In 2001, he published a memoir of his service, Fire in the Hole: A Mortarman in Vietnam. Michael teaches a class on the history of the Vietnam War at venues including the University of Minnesota’s Compleat Scholar Program.

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IVAW Official Statement on Occupy Movement

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 28, 2011 9:07 AM

CONTACT: Iraq Veterans Against the War Joseph Carter, Iraq Veterans Against the War 646-723-0989 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            646-723-0989      end_of_the_skype_highlighting, josephcarter@ivaw.org

Iraq Veterans Against the War Board of Directors Releases Official Statement on Occupy Movement

We are the 99%, organization says

NATIONWIDE - November 28 - Veterans are a part of the 99%.  

Most of our military is made up of the 99%.  We join the military for many reasons.  Some join because of family tradition or a sense of patriotism.  Others join for citizenship, education or to escape poverty or violence in our homes and neighborhoods. Many service members realize the wars we fight contribute to poverty and violence in Iraq and Afghanistan communities. We are coming home to a broken economy where veterans have higher unemployment, incarceration, suicide and homelessness than the national average.

The 1% is profiting from of our sacrifices.  

Our nation’s leaders have betrayed us. We have been asked to risk our lives and mental health for the defense of our country and the well being of foreign allies. The causes for military conflict have proven false while corporations profit. The military industrial complex continues to grow in wealth while the rest of the world pays for it in dollars and blood.  Instead of increasing programs to attempt to repair damages, many schools, hospitals, and social services are shutting down.  Programs for veterans are inadequate and are leaving us physically, mentally, and emotionally bankrupt.

Veterans have a history of effective grassroots organizing.  

IVAW has been a voice for veterans and their grievances since our founding in 2004.  We understand that change comes about when people speak up, organize, and demand justice. Veterans and active-duty service members have a history of organizing, from the Bonus March to the Vietnam War. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have an important contribution to make to this movement. 

As veterans and members of the 99% we stand in solidarity with the Occupy Movement.  

As service members we are told that we fight for human rights and democratic freedoms. However, these rights seem to be continually denied at protests across the nation, often times by police using excessive force and violent tactics.  We support our members, fellow veterans and members of this movement who have been subjected to this gross contradiction, and who have refused to remain silent.

We are the 99%.

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Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) was founded by Iraq war veterans in July 2004 at the annual convention of Veterans for Peace (VFP) in Boston to give a voice to the large number of active duty service people and veterans who are against this war, but are under various pressures to remain silent.

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After Action Report: Freedom Plaza and Beyond...

By Willie Hager

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VVAW/OSS

When the Occupation of Freedom Plaza was first brought to our attention in September of this year, it came in the form of a press release, from a group calling itself the October2011 Coalition.  It also came on the heels of an article that I had posted on these pages on September 25th entitled "Ten Years and Counting in Afghanistan", which in part questioned the effectiveness of a continuation of mass demonstrations, as they were organized and carried out, prior to Oct 6th, 2011, when the people's Occupation of Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. began.

I was wary of the cost and commitment of time that these types of demonstrations in D.C. required, given that our repeated visits had become routine in nature, and that once we left D.C., there never seemed to be an organized effort to capture the spirit and momentum of the occasion, and to take it back and share it at the grass-roots with those who were unable to attend. Those who were unaware that it was even happening, and educate and inform those folks as to the issues that were relevant to their daily lives and to demonstrate to them, that by simply coordinating their talents and resources that they could do something about their circumstances, and could involve themselves in the process of confronting those issues (and those responsible for them), right there at home.  I need not have been wary; that was not to be the case this time.  This time, all the forces came together and a prairie fire was lit.

My initial purpose for going to D.C. for the October2011 Freedom Plaza Occupation was because the tenth anniversary of involvement in Afghanistan was one of the core issues of the Occupation. Also, I wanted to do a piece for VetSpeak on the Occupation of Freedom Plaza, and the subsequent downline dynamics resulting from it and it's impact on bringing about awareness out where it needs to be; out in the heartland, rather than on the doorsteps of the institutions of government.

VetSpeak Photo-journalist Sarah Wilder

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I even recruited my daughter Sarah to accompany me, as the VetSpeak photo-journalist for the piece. While we were preparing for the journey, some critical VVAW business arose that needed to be attended to. The result was that a delegation was formed to go D.C. to meet and resolve the issues, and at the same time to represent VVAW at the Freedom Plaza Occupation and any subsequent actions that might spontaneously occur.
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At about the same time as these events were developing, a Canadian consumer Activist group, Adbusters Media Foundation, called for the Occupation of Wall Street, coinciding with the already planned Freedom Plaza Occupation. Fact is, Occupy Wall Street came to D.C. while we were there and began yet another Occupation there in the city, and made an alliance with the Freedom Plaza Occupation.  Turns out, occupations were now springing up in cities all over the US, in rapid order.  A perfect storm was brewing.
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Our VVAW group was headquartered at the at the Harrington Hotel, in D.C.  We arrived on Wednesday, the 5th.  We had scheduled our meeting for the afternoon of the 6th, the first day of the Plaza Occupation. We were booked in through Sunday the 9th, which gave us several days following our meeting in which to participate in Occupation activities and actions.  This was a prime opportunity for us to spend a few days together getting to re-know one another personally and to work together democratically to achieve our stated objectives.x 

The purpose of our meeting was to demonstrate our nationally resolved organizational unity around stopping the war in Afghanistan and it's negative impact on our economy and society, given Obama's assertions that we were to be there at least until 2015, and to tighten up our network of still active VVAW members and Regional Contacts for the long fight ahead. 

We were also there to develop an ad-hoc infrastructure, one designed for the purpose of presenting a visible and effective public face of unified VVAW activists with-in the movement, and to discuss strategy and tactics, and how we could become an active arm of VVAW in interfacing with other anti-war organizations and Veterans groups and thereby,  share our history, talent, and resources, in any future movement planning, with an emphasis on the power of grass-roots messaging and the power of the networking aspects of organizing, and the empowerment of democratic decision making, incorporating the spirit of one of the slogans/chants of the Freedom Plaza Occupation: 

"This Is What Democracy Looks Like!"

 

Messaging, networking, and democratic decision making were the three critical elements that enabled VVAW to be successful historically, and at the forefront of the movement which  back in the day brought about the end of the war in Vietnam, and was  instrumental in bringing about the downfall of the Nixon creature's police state. And yet, here we were again, 40 years later, right back on square one; meeting as VVAW to try and bring a halt to another war of corporate, capital, and political imperialism, in an increasingly militaristic America. We had to do something different in order for our efforts to ring about permanent change, this time around.

Those of us who met in D.C. believe that our old school formula for organizing can be a powerful tool in today's anti-war movement, in order to get main-stream America into the fight.  We also believe that it is our jobs, as ones who have "been there", to demonstrate how the current wars, just as with Vietnam, break down our families and our society, and is tied directly to the failing economy, and to the cuts to education, health, and mobility of the 99% of us who do not share in the corporate billions in profit being made at the expense of American blood and treasure, by the remaining wealthy 1%. 
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But, as stated earlier, we were also there to support and participate in Occupy Freedom Plaza. So, on the evening of the 6th, we went down to the Plaza to participate in the general assembly, and to listen to movement folks giving speeches and playing music.  We wanted to hear what folks had to say at open mike at the general assembly. One of our own, Watermelon Slim was on the venue and played some movement blues for the occupiers.

Others who played that evening were a troop of Afghanistan Veterans and supporters from the Southeast who were bicycling the eastern seaboard bringing and singing messages of peace, and some local talent who helped to get the crowd revved up and in the mood for some serious protestin'.  
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The most notable thing about the events in the park, was the lack of ideological sloganeering and dogmatic rhetoric. There was an air of hippie festivity mixed with pragmatic determination.  What appeared to be gathered here, judging from the speeches and people in close proximity to us in the park, were folks who recognized that as we harnessed the energy this time around, we needed to so in a pragmatic way, rather than in a knee jerk reactive way. That, in order to win hearts and minds to the cause; it was understood that we needed to inspire, rather than cajole those who weren't standing there in D.C. with us...this was new, and refreshing.  
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What else was new was the all out effort to make sure that all who wished to speak could be heard, bolstered with a new phenomena called "Mike Check!".  When shouted out, it required all hands to stop talking and to listen, and to repeat after every five words or so whatever the speaker was saying...it worked really well and no one missed out on the message or necessary information with this form of 21st century public speech.  All decisions were being put to the crowd for affirmation, through what we in VVAW came to refer to as "twinkling"; extending both hands in the air, and wiggling your fingers.  This was now the universal sign of consensus or approval.

Our opportunity to march came the next day,  in the form of a march to,  and a rally at, the MLK Memorial, where there was to be a press conference with Iraq Veterans Against The War (IVAW) & Veterans For Peace (VFP),  linking MLK's opposition to the Vietnam War to the premise that he would also be outspoken about our current involvement in the middle-east, and in the world wide War on Terror. In the end, VVAW, and a Veterans group named March Forward also participated in the press conference supporting the Occupation, and all gave a united message of discontinuance in our current wars, full health care for Veterans, and support of IVAW's Operation Recovery, which addresses the topic of re-deployments of service personnel identified as exhibiting symptoms of PTSD following previous deployments.

We finished the rally with a gathering under the MLK quote station addressing Vietnam, that starts "I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger, but with sorrow in my heart." We can relate, Martin...same goes for the current wars...

Our last action in D.C., was to join with Military Families Speak Out (MFSO), VFP, and March Forward, in a march on the White House on Sunday the 9th. The purpose was to demand a Beer Summit with President Obama. We wanted to have a beer and discuss the war and the economy with the Commander in Chief.  Of course, like so many other times that we had come to the gates of the White House, no one was home...they never are when we get there, but we rallied anyway and a representative from each Veterans group delivered a personal message to the crowd, and a personal invitation, relayed through the gate guard, that we wished to have a beer with Obama, and discuss the state of the nation. 

  

By the time that we were ready to roll back to Florida on Sunday, Occupations had sprung up in 103 cities, with more to come as of this writing. There was already an Occupy Jacksonville, back home; This, in a town where if it can happen, it can happen anywhere. The Occupy movement, with the advent of the joining in unity of purpose of the Wall Street and Freedom Plaza Occupations, has been the spark that has lit the prairie fire that has now become the Occupy movement.  
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This time, the message and energy from mass demonstrations held in far cities was getting back out to the grass-roots, and people are becoming aware, and are coordinating their talents and their resources, and starting to do something about their circumstances. They are beginning to confront the issues of corporate domination of our lives, politics, and economy, and bringing to an end wars of corporate and political imperialism, and abandoning the lock step mentality of the two main political party's who no longer speak for the people, but instead for the corporations and the global economy, rather than your's and your  family's economy. 
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If nothing else comes of all of this, I would like to see all involved re-register as Independent voters, so that the parties and politicians could no longer lump us all into defined groups of voters, i.e., Democrats, Republican, latino voters, black voters, veteran voters, women voters, and tell us we should vote as such. As Independents, they couldn't stereotype us as voters who all vote the same way as identity groups, as they do now. The current practice of two party politics is racist in nature, and disrespectful of the fact that as Americans, we are capable of thinking of ourselves.  
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As Independents, the power brokers couldn't categorize and predict our votes by our demographic grouping and as a whole and united people, we could win our Constitution back from the corporate power brokers and politicians who are only in this for political, personal, or capital gain, and replace them with those who desire to serve the people in accordance with our hard fought for and hard won Constitution and Bill of Rights, forged in blood, way back in 1776.  We could go back to electing folks who would work for us, rather than for the money men and corporate power brokers.  
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Think about it; as I see it that is the power of the Occupy movement...all of us, despite all of our differences...standing together and speaking as one against the political tyranny that has become our current manner of governance.  For a short week, that spirit was alive in Freedom Plaza, and it is now spilling over into plazas and parks all over our great nation. See you at Occupy Jacksonville, this Saturday. Power to the People.

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