[RSF] FW: [USC4P&J Members] Time to awake!

Frattini: andiamo in guerra per impedire una guerra (??????) ( lets go to war to stop the war......) paci, pilar

Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:51:15 +0100
Subject: Fwd: FW: [USC4P&J Members] Time to awake!
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From: Julia Shaw-Lawrence <jvshawlawrence@???>

Date: 22 March 2011 07:03
Subject: FW: [USC4P&J Members] Time to awake!
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> From: patrick@???
> To: members@???

> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:41:30 +0100
> Subject: [USC4P&J Members] Time to awake!
>
>
> Dear U.S. citizens for peace and justice,
>
> Time to awake!
>
> Under the pretence of saving the Libyan people from their brutal dictator

> Gaddafi, our leaders are taking us straight into another Afghanistan war!
> We must stop this folly!
>
> The official line that our leaders (and the media) are trying to sell us is
> this:

>
> "We must prevent hundreds of Libyan civilians in the city of Bengasi from
> being killed by Gaddafi's troops, by bombing military installations and
> ministries in the capitol, Tripoli, even if that means... killing hundreds

> of Libyan civilians around those sites (collateral damage)."
>
> This is what has been happening for the past two nights! It is as insane
> as it is immoral!
>
> There was another solution, a peaceful one, that the Allies could have

> backed but refused to. The African Union had volunteered to send a "force
> of interposition" between the contending sides, thereby forcing them into
> negotiations. We refused their offer. Instead we insisted that Gaddafi

> stop all air attacks immediately. He did, on the spot. Then we said he
> had to cease fire. He has. Now we're saying he has to withdraw all
> troops. And Obama mentioned during his press conference today that the

> next request will probably be for Gaddafi to exile himself.
>
> Sound familiar? We saw all that before the invasion of Afghanistan. The
> U.S. threatens an attack if the other party does not cede on some point.

> And when that party does cede, the U.S. calls the compliance inadequate and
> ups the ante, again and again, until the other side cedes no more. At that
> point the U.S. invades. Which is what our leaders wanted to do from the

> beginning. In order (in this case) to grab Libya's immense oil and gas
> reserves. That's why the U.S. told the African Union, in no uncertain
> terms, to stay out of Libya and not try to broker peace.

>
> What? An invasion of another sovereign country? More blood for oil? Does
> that sound possible? Haven't we learned our lesson from Iraq and
> Afghanistan? Apparently not, British commandos are reported to have

> already entered Libya.
>
> We must stop this folly. Can you imagine any better gift to Al-Qaeda than
> this -- giving them another country to infiltrate in order to expel Foreign
> Occupiers? And this time we in Italy will have Al-Qaeda at our doorstep,

> just across the Mediterranean, perhaps for years (Libya could easily become
> another quagmire war).
>
> So here we are financing another hugely expensive war, at a time when
> Republicans are demanding cuts to social security, public sector salaries,

> everything they can get their hands on, because we simply don't have any
> more money (or so they claim). So where has this war money come from?
>
> We must say NO to this hypocrisy! We must demand a cease-fire, NOW, on

> BOTH sides, and that means OURS, since Gaddafi has already complied.
>
> This evening an emergency Italian Citizens' Committee for Peace met in Rome
> to organize, as soon as possible, a national demonstration at the U.S.

> Command and Control Center in Naples. It will take a couple of weeks to
> prepare for it, and in the meantime the Committee has proposed that peace
> groups in Rome (and in every city) take to streets as often as possible, to

> awaken public opinion, lulled by the media into thinking that the bombing
> going on in Libya is not a war, it is only a humanitarian peace-keeping
> mission which was absolutely necessary to protect Libyan civilians against

> their dictator.
>
> We have to denounce this lie! so let's join the other peace groups in Rome
> who will be demanding an immediate cease-fire by Allied forces. They will
> be on the streets:

>
> -- today, Tuesday (22.3.2011), 4.30 pm in front of the Italian Senate (the
> sit-in will be on the corner of Corso Rinascimento and a tiny alley called
> Corsia Agonale leading into Piazza Navona; see the map

> www.tinyurl.com/senato-corso-rinascimento -- who's got our flag and
> banner?);
>
> -- Friday (25-3-2011), in front of the Presidential Palace, Quirinale (I'll

> send the specific time and meeting place);
>
> -- Monday (28-3-2011), outside the offices of the two major parties who
> voted for Italian participation in the war (again, specific info will be

> forthcoming);
>
> -- Tuesday (29-3-2011), a march through the center of Rome ending in front
> of the Parliament building.
>
> (Meanwhile back home in the U.S., on Wednesday, March 23, and Saturday,

> March 26, the Answer Coaltion will be holding rallies in 11 major cities.
> For details: www.answercoalition.org )
>
> At that point we hope to have punctured the Big Lie and to have attracted

> enough attention to guarantee a good turnout for the major event, the
> demonstration outside the U.S. Naval Headquarters in Naples, which will be
> scheduled by then.
>
> ......................................

>
> This is an awful lot of preparatory work, I know. But when the media, most
> political parties, and even the major unions are all supporting the bombing
> going on in Libya, we have to resort to good old-fashioned word of mouth.

>
> It would be nice to have a meeting to discuss all this among ourselves and
> decide which events (if not all) we want to participate in, or what else we
> want to do.
>
> Above I gave the map where I'll be tomorrow from 4:30 pm to 6 pm (outside

> the Senate building) -- if any of you can make it, we can hold an informal
> meeting then. Please try to come! Otherwise I propose holding an official
> meeting on Friday afternoon, during the sit-in outside the Quirinale

> building. In other words, instead of holding a meeting at Café de la
> Pace, let's hold the meeting where the next sit-in will be taking place.
>
> Feedback, ideas, comments to: info@???

>
> In peace (but only if we work for it),
>
> Patrick
>
>
>
>
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