Climate justice now!
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When you put on that uniform you don’t enter a democratic organization. More than any institution on earth, the military has perfected the art of coer cion. The orders flow from the top on down. And at the top are generals tied to the ruling rich by a thou sand threads. They trust each other with their lives.
This military, the police, other armed forces, and a massive unelected bureaucratic state machine, en ables the rich to maintain an order where you have to work for them in order to live. Where you make them wealthier every day just so you can make it to the next week.
And when you step into that workplace, you do not step into a democratic organization either. There may be a few more smiles, but the orders still come from the top. And if you disobey, or show too little enthu siasm, or work a little too slowly—you’re out on the the police and the courts say everywhere else. Like the generals, they are on the side of money. As are the politicians who make the laws the police and the courts enforce.
We do what they say because they are organized better than we are. We do what they say because we are confused. Confused about our interests and about who the enemy is. And no less confused than I was on the streets of Fallujah.
A few thousand rich people have nearly everyone in the whole world working for them and fighting each other. We will only be able to do something about our situation when we join with working people around the planet to fight our common exploiter.
Everywhere the bosses have power we need to or ganize our own power. And if we are going to crack their hold on this earth, we not only need to organize A teach-in: Hear experts and activists explore some of the toughest questions facing the climate movement.
Elmwood Community Center 106 New Britain Ave.
West Hartford, Conn.
Sponsored by 350 CT, (organizers @350ct. org); Sierra Club of CT (connecticut.chap [email protected].
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Fibonacciblue tice, a new local coalition led by immigrants in the Twin Cities area. Socialist Action participates in the coalition.
The march was attended by a mix of younger and older people—Brown, Black, and white—and was en dorsed by over 30 organizations, including the Wom en’s March, Black Lives Matter St. Paul, the Minnesota Peace Action Coalition, 15 Now Minnesota, Morena Minnesota, Take a Knee Nation, and many other local immigrant and social justice groups.
Immigrant Movement for Justice organizers reported that the march had gained broad support and peaked a lot of interest in the local community as it was being built.
The demands of the march included: Stop all depor tations NOW! Legalization for ALL workers, students and their families NOW! Housing for ALL! Defend Muslims! Stop the Ban! Defend #DACA! Defend #TPS for Salvadorans and Haitians! Raise the Minimum Wage ($15 or More)!
The speakers at the opening and closing rallies re flected these demands and included Latino, Hmong, Haitian, and Filipino immigrants, women, Blacks, so cialists, DACA recipients, and other local activists. Af ter the opening rally, the protesters took to the streets of St. Paul and marched to the Indigenous Roots Cul tural Arts Center for the closing rally to hear more speakers and enjoy traditional Haitian and Mexican