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June 18, 2005
Pledge Of Resistance
-- by Gary Boatwright
"No election, whether fair or fraudulent, can legitimize criminal wars on foreign countries, torture, the wholesale violation of human rights, and the end of science and reason."
Visit Not In Our Name and read the original NION pledge. Listen to Ossie Davis read the original pledge.
Sign the New NION pledge.
My favorite is the Pledge Of Resistance:
We believe that as people living in the United States it is our responsibility to resist the injustices done by our government, in our namesNot in our name
will you wage endless war
there can be no more deaths
no more transfusions
of blood for oilNot in our name
will you invade countries
bomb civilians, kill more children
letting history take its course
over the graves of the namelessNot in our name
will you erode the very freedoms
you have claimed to fight forNot by our hands
will we supply weapons and funding
for the annihilation of families
on foreign soilNot by our mouths
will we let fear silence usNot by our hearts
will we allow whole peoples
or countries to be deemed evilNot by our will
and Not in our nameWe pledge resistance
We pledge alliance with those
who have come under attack
for voicing opposition to the war
or for their religion or ethnicityWe pledge to make common cause
with the people of the world
to bring about justice,
freedom and peaceAnother world is possible
and we pledge to make it real.
I blogged the Military Voices Against Endless War teach in that was held in Los Angeles. I reproduced their program guide with activist links to Iraq war resistance. They filmed and are coming out with a DVD of the event that will be available soon at Justice Vision for $3. I tried to pre-order 20 copies, but I'm not sure how to pay for the darn things.
This was prior to the Downing Street Memo blogswarm, but they were talking about taking this on a nation wide tour. Keep an eye on Not In Our Name and join their email list to see if they bring it to a city near you. It's a powerful presentation.
Order and read War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges.
Peace out,
Gary
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