[Oct. 17 Seattle] Rough draft PSA

Mon Oct 5 00:53:30 EDT 2009

I agree.  A short, informational announcement, that does not get into 
any political analysis, would be the best form for a PSA.

Phil

chr2eemail at comcast.net wrote:
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> It seems that we want to mainly use this radio announcement to inform 
> people who would normally go to such a demonstration---or who are on 
> the verge of going to a demonstration for the first time---but haven’t 
> otherwise heard about this one, that it’s going to happen. Actual 
> political mobilization has to be done somewhere other than in an 
> announcement.
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> So I think what we want (and what will get on the air), is something 
> very short and simple, i.e., on October 17 there’s going to be a march 
> demanding that the U.S. get out of Afghanistan now, followed by 
> details. (Thus, I’m “overthrowing” my previous suggestion.) Of course 
> one should spiff this up a little, but not much.
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> (Sorry to be so general, but maybe if we first agree on the general, 
> then the particular will be easier.)
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: Anton Black
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> To: antiwar at lists.hcoop.net
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> Sent: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 03:36:33 +0000 (UTC)
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> Subject: Re: [Oct. 17 Seattle] Rough draft PSA
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> How about this?  Or we could just use the short demo leaflet
> --Anton
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> As of October 7 the war in Afghanistan enters its ninth year. // With 
> tens of thousands of innocent Afghans and over 1400 U.S./NATO soldiers 
> already dead, the Obama Administration and generals are  sending still 
> more troops and further expanding the war into Pakistan. To sell the 
> war to the public, Obama is using the same scare tactics as Bush: 
> “This is a war of necessity”…it’s “fundamental to the defense of our 
> people."
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> The Seattle October 17 Anti-War Mobilization says enough of this! It 
> calls for standing with the millions of Afghan people who oppose the 
> U.S./NATO occupation.  The past eight years have shown to millions 
> that both the Republicans and Democrats are war parties, and that the 
> anti-war movement must be built independent of and against both of 
> them. Let us use the Saturday, October 17 demonstration as part of 
> building up precisely such an independent movement. Our uniting slogan is…
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> U.S. out of Afghanistan now!
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> March details
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: Anton Black
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> To: antiwar at lists.hcoop.net
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> Sent: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 23:04:20 +0000 (UTC)
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> Subject: [Oct. 17 Seattle] Rough draft PSA
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> Please check out and help make it better--
> I borrowed/stole language from Frank's letter to ETS! combined with 
> our short leaflet , tweaked, added Pakistan.  I think it will need to 
> be shorter and clearer.
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> --Anton
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> /U.S. imperialism, get the Hell out of Afghanistan
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> and Pakistan!/
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> On October 7 begins the ninth year of U.S.-sponsored
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> war and ruin for the Afghan
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> people. The Obama/NATO escalation has
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> only escalated this great crime, while generals
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> officials talk of sending still more troops, and of being in
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> Afghanistan
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> for many years, if not decades.
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> /After already being devastated by more than 30
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> years of almost continual wars, the Afghan people are today
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> constantly threatened by death from the U.S.-NATO controlled skies,
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> death from the warlord-dominated government, and death from the
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> ultra-fundamentalist Taliban. But they’re not just passive victims.
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> In fact, the Revolutionary Organization of Women of Afghanistan’s
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> slogan “Neither the occupiers nor the bestial Taliban and the
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> criminal Northern Alliance; long live a free and democratic
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> Afghanistan!” represents a broad sentiment that periodically erupts
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> into protests and clashes with the U.S.-NATO troops and Kabul
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> authorities/
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> Step up struggle to build the anti-
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> war movement!
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> /The justifiably angry Afghan and Pakistani people
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> want and deserve our help in getting U.S.-NATO monster off their
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> backs. But to have a movement that can drive the U.S. out of
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> Afghanistan requires building up the political trend in society that
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> grasps that the bloody injustices in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan,
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> Palestine, and elsewhere are the inevitable product of the capitalist
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> system, and that to end them this system must be overthrown. A large
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> step in this direction is taken when large numbers of people in the
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> anti-war movement realize that they must organize on their own, and
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> fight against both parties in Washington. /
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> We
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> say no to U.S. occupation! With tens of thousands of innocent Afghans
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> already dead, no more U.S. war! With
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> /nearly 1300 U.S.-NATO soldiers already dead, U.S.
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> get the hell out! /
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> Demonstrate Saturday, October 17
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> Meet: 1:00 p.m. at Seattle Central Community College
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> (Broadway & Pine).
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> March through south Capitol Hill, the International
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> District, and up 1st Ave. End at Westlake Center (4th & Pine).
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> http://october17antiwarseattle.blogspot.com
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> protest U.S. war on Afghanistan October 17!
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> Seattle info:
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> http://october17antiwarseattle.blogspot.com/
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