[Oct. 17 Seattle] Rough draft PSA

Mon Oct 5 20:27:09 EDT 2009

I like the tone of this and it seems sufficiently short to me.
--Ira

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Anton Black <anton666 at oz.net> wrote:

> How about this?--Anton
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> On October 17 there’s going to be a march demanding that the U.S. get out
> of Afghanistan now!
> Meet: 1:00 p.m. at Seattle Central Community College (Broadway & Pine).
> We'll march  through Capitol Hill, the International District, and up 1st
> Ave. to Westlake Center (4th & Pine).
> Stand 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  precisely such a
> movement.
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> protest U.S. war on Afghanistan October 17! Seattle info:
> http://october17antiwarseattle.blogspot.com/ For updates please subscribe
> to our announce list at: https://lists.hcoop.net/listinfo/antiwar-announce
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> --- chr2eemail at comcast.net wrote:
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> From: chr2eemail at comcast.net
> To: anton at vvawai.org
> Cc: antiwar at lists.hcoop.net
> Subject: Re: [Oct. 17 Seattle] Rough draft PSA
> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 03:50:33 +0000 (UTC)
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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 -----
>
> 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)
>
> 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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> On October 7 begins the ninth year of U.S.-sponsored
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> people. The Obama/NATO escalation has
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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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> *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
>
> 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!
>
> Seattle info:
>
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> http://october17antiwarseattle.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> For updates please subscribe to our announce list at:
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