Fwd: John Ashcroft & Tom Ridge Reading in Seattle
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They hang the man and flog the woman
That steal the goose from off the common,
But let the greater villain loose
That steals the common from the goose.
Constant apprehension of war has the same tendency
to render the head too large for the body. A standing military
force with an overgrown executive will not long be safe.
companions to liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson
"America is a quarter of a billion people totally misinformed and disinformed
by their government. This is tragic but our media is -- I wouldn't even say
corrupt -- it's just beyond telling us anything that the government doesn't
want us to know."
Gore Vidal
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From: Aaron Vidaver <vid@RUNCIBLE.ORG>
Subject: John Ashcroft & Tom Ridge Reading in Seattle
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A CALL TO ACTION: PLEASE DISSEMINATE WIDELY
Fight the Consolidation of Police Terrorism in the US:
A call to Action in Seattle, June 2 to 6th, 2003
We, the committee to form a Northwest Federation of
Anarchist Communists, call for a convergence in Seattle,
Washington, home of the WTO protests, to strike at the
heart of the forces whose goals are to undermine all human
rights, criminalize dissent, jail, harass and torture
activists, and
even commit legal murder of people of color and dissidents
alike, in the name of "Homeland Security", "Fighting
Terrorism" and "Criminal Intelligence". We call for all
that have been victimized, or feel that they will become
victimized, by this unprecedented consolidation of police
power to join in solidarity and return to Seattle.
The Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit (LEIU) is holding
its annual conference in Seattle, on June 2,3,4,5 and 6th.
(see
http://www.leiu2003seattle.org/) The organizers of this
conference have invited Attorney General John Ashcroft,
Director of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge (who conspired to
imprison and murder journalist Mumia Abu- Jamal),
Portland Joint Terrorism Task Force member John Cooney;
FBI Assistant Director John Pistole, New York City Police
Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence, and Former CIA agent
David Cohen will attend. The purpose of this conference is
for law enforcement, from local police to the FBI to the
CIA and military, to further consolidate their power and
organization, and to improve "the current state of
intelligence sharing/processing among local and federal
law enforcement agencies; and [to discuss] specifics as
to what local law enforcement can do to better support the
war on terrorism". We all know that the war on terrorism
is a pretext for the war of the State against the
population: people of color, immigrants, and political
activists inside as well as outside the United States.
The topic of their conference include such things as
"Criminal Protest Groups" and "left wing" terrorism. We
all know that people committing such acts as stepping off
of the curb at a demonstration, organizing against the
war, organizing against the rape of our planet, occupying
buildings and workplaces, and destroying capitalism are
considered terrorists by our government. When the
government loses its legitimacy with the people the
response has been to build a system to monitor,
criminalize, imprison, and
murder its subjects, and to remove the line between the
military and the domestic police. We have seen the massive
consolidation of police power after the rise of the
anti-globalization and anti-capitalist movements, the
resurgence in anarchist organization, and the call of the
government to seize Iraqi oil under the pretext of
avenging the horrible tragedy of 9-11.
We have seen the steady rise of the abuse of the police,
from the tear gassing and beatings at WTO, to the murder
of an activist in Genoa. The history is merely being
repeated, since the organization of slave patrols in New
York in 1830's and the centuries of genocide against
native people;
J. Edgar Hoover's repression of Wobblies, anarchists and
socialists during World War 1; the Palmer raids of the
20's; persecution of communists in the 1930's and 1950's;
the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti; The destruction
of the Black Panther Party and the murder of its leaders
in the 1960's; the repression of the American Indian
Movement and frame up of Leonard Peltier; the disruption
of the anti-apartied movement of the 1980's; and now, the
criminalization of Muslims, immigrants, people of color,
native peoples, and activists in the 1990's and to date.
Our resistance to the police state in the US is the
uniting of all people of all color, of all struggles for
self determination, of all defenses against the rape of
Mother Earth, and the struggle against the employing
class.
We call upon all to converge upon Seattle, using whatever
tactics they feel are necessary and prudent to carry out
the goals of their respective organizations and
constituencies; we call all upon all to organize in
affinity groups and coalitions as necessary to resist the
legalized planning for the criminalization of dissent; and
we leave up to
individuals and groups to choose whatever tactics they
deem appropriate to their cause, and that such tactics be
carried out independent of one another when necessary. We
call upon the defense of non-violent activists against the
likely abuse by the police who will likely rise to the
occasion; and we call for this to be the first action of
many to dismantle
the institution of Police Terrorism, disguised as Homeland
Security and its regional manifestations of FBI/law
enforcement partnerships. We must expose this legal crime
network to the people of this country, and destroy any and
all legitimacy they made have.
Corporate America is funding this conference. Starbucks,
7-11 stores, and Microsoft are listed as sponsors.
Microsoft develops the computer infrastructure for citizen
data collection (see http://jps.directtaps.net/) Corporate
America has declared us the enemy, and they are raising
their army of soldiers and intelligence alike to defeat
our resistance to their tyranny. This already happened
last year on the docks on the West Coast of the US, where
the White House called the
leadership of the International Longshore and Warehouse
Union (ILWU) to warn then against striking against the
waterfront employers (the PMA) to protect "national
security", while the employers in an allinace with the
Bush White House and corporate retailers used Taft-Hartley
to fight the
union. This will likely happen with the ILA on the east
coast when their contract expires. Corporate America wants
the cops and military involved in our workplace disputes,
so that they can make us their unquestioning servants
paralyzed by fear.
Our struggle against the proponents of "Homeland Security"
and the emerging police state is our struggle for our
survival, and for the survival of our planet.
In Revolutionary Struggle and Solidarity,
Coordinating Committee for the formation of a Northwest
Federation of Anarchist Communists.
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