October2011 - Stop The Machine Protest

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October2011 - Stop The Machine Protest

Background

An amalgamation of communist, marxist, socialist and leftist-liberal organizations has been brought back together to form a protest group tentatively called "Stop The Machine" (STM), for an October 6, 2011 protest in Washington, D.C. It's on-line "call to action" has the themed title of "Stop the Machine! Create a New World!", which is very similar to the Maoist/Marxist World Can't Wait organization which included many of the same people.

They issued an on-line call to action at their website "http://october2011.org/statement" which said the following:

"You Are Here. Stop the Machine! Create a New World!

Stop the Machine! Create a New World!

"A Call to Action - Oct. 6, 2011 and onward"

(The full text of their "call")

October 2011 is the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of the 2012 federal austerity budget. It is time to light the spark that sets off a true democratic, nonviolent transition to a world in which people are freed to create just and sustainable solutions.

We call on people of conscience and courage - all who seek peace, economic justice, human rights and a healthy environment - to join together in Washington, D.C., beginning on Oct. 6, 2011, in nonviolent resistance similar to the Arab Spring and the Midwest awakening.

A concert, rally and protest will kick off a powerful and sustained nonviolent resistance to the corporate criminals that dominate our government.

Forty-seven years ago, Mario Savio, an activist student at Berkeley, said, "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious - makes you so sick at heart - that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."

Those words have an even greater urgency today. We face ongoing wars and massive socio-economic and environmental destruction perpetrated by a corporate empire which is oppressing, occupying and exploiting the world. We are on a fast track to making the planet unlivable while the middle class and poor people of our country are undergoing the most wrenching and profound economic crisis in 80 years.

"Stop the Machine! - Create a New World!" is a clarion call for all who are deeply concerned with injustice, miitarism and environmental destruction to join in ending concentrated corporate power and taking direct control of a real participatory democracy. We will encourage a culture of resistance - using music, art, theater and direct nonviolent action - to take contraol of our country and our lives. It is about courageously resisting and stopping the corporate state from destroying not only our inherent rights and freedoms, but also our children's chance to live, breathe clean air, drink pure water, grow edible natural food and live in peace.

As Mother Jones said, "Someday the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit."

We are the ones who can create a new and just world. Our issues are connected. We are connected. Join us in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 6, 2011, to Stop the Machine.

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Take the pledge and sign up to attend here. Let America know you are coming to make history and a new world!

The Pledge:

"I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, Octboer 6, 2011, as that criminal occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine to demand that our resources are invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning."


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WHO WE ARE: We are supported by organizations that work for peace, justice, civil rights, jobs, green energy, a clean environment, a secure retirement, healthcare, infrastructre, education, joy, and other human needs. The organizers of this event are acting as individuals. This is an action by people, not by organizations.

(To see more organizations) (more appear on the website and change over time)

"It is - finally - the protest I've been hoping/looking for" - Robert Leaver

People Who Have Pledged To be There!

This is one of several such lists, and is a shorter version of one that runs into hundreds of names (which will be entered later)

MORE TO FOLLOW:

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