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End the war on the planet and its people — Statement of Green-Rainbow Party for October 27, 2007 New England Mobilization to End the Iraq War End the war on the planet and its people What brings us here today is not an isolated war, but a long history of U.S. war-making — at home and abroad, on people and the planet. From the control of the earth’s resources to the control of sovereign nations, U.S. militarism has been a bipartisan pursuit. The Democrats who took back Congress by promising they’d end the Iraq War refuse to cut off its funding, to rule out years of U.S. occupation, and to rule out waging war on Iran. Congress wages a meaningless “war on terror” to justify endless war and criminal abuses of power, establishing the USA PATRIOT ACT and a total-surveillance society. U.S. military dominance in the Middle East is driven by the thirst for oil — the lifeblood of the growth economy and of military power. Bipartisan commitment to unlimited economic growth means unlimited war for control over nature’s resources, for endless production and endless consumption. Bipartisan economic policies favor private interests over the public good, and higher concentrations of wealth in fewer and fewer hands. As a result, they have served to drive our youth into the “poverty draft” or the “prison pipeline.” We must end the political system built on plunder and exploitation if we are to ever truly “bring our troops home.” Build new institutions for justice and peace The Green-Rainbow Party is a values-based party, committed to ecological wisdom, non-violence, grassroots democracy, social justice and equal opportunity. With an ecological view of our place on the planet, we recognize that peace is inseparable from justice, just as there is no separation between U.S. foreign policy and what happens to us at home. Congress commits two-thirds of its discretionary spending to expanding the military-industrial complex — raising the military budget to over $600 billion not including the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars — while Katrina victims wait for the nation to act responsibly and compassionately. Such actions clearly perpetuate a system of injustice. With this understanding, we are working to replace the violence of greed and power with a society founded on real family values — caring for all people with programs for living wage jobs and guaranteed incomes, affordable housing, quality education and healthcare, and access to healthy foods. We are working to build new institutions that can provide real security — where people’s basic needs are met. We are working to create a “green” and “rainbow” society based on justice and peace, on love and respect — for each other and for the earth and all its creatures. Please join us! [ Click here to download the PDF version of this statement ] [ Click here to see photos of the Oct. 27th Green/Green-Rainbow Party contingent ] |
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