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SOLIDARITY WITH KATRINA SURVIVORS

FEATURED SPEAKER: KALI AKUNO, Executive Director of People's Hurricane Relief Fund

Also:

“Down But Not Out” A Film on the Gulf Coast Resistance

Music by Desert Rat and Spoken Word by Biko and Mission High Artists

April 7th, at 7 pm
Centro del Pueblo, 474 Valencia St., S.F.
(@ 16th Street; near 16th St. Mission BART)

Donation requested at door; No one turned away for lack of funds.

Sponsored by PHRF-OC, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Bay Area Katrina Solidarity Committee,
Revolution Youth, The Organizer Newspaper, Colectivo Media Insurgente, CRUCS,
Mission High Black Student Union, June Jordan SFE Black Student Union
For more information, call 415-646-6469 or 504-301-0215.
labor donated/2007

Oppose Gentrification, Evictions, and the Criminalization of Homelessness!

Support the April 7 Homes Not Jails Rally & Vacant Housing Occupation!

HNJ will be occupying a long-vacant building where all the tenants were
Ellis evicted several years ago. We will be protesting the real estate
speculation which leads to homelessness and will claim the building for
affordable housing (those occupying will be doing civil disobedience and be
subject to arrest).

On Saturday, April 7, at Noon, there will be a rally at 24th and Mission
Streets and supporters will then march to the site of the seized & occupied
housing (people at the rally will not be subject to arrest).

Contact 282-6543 or volunteer@sftu.org for more info about this action, the
first Homes Not Jails takeover in several years!!! www.homesnotjails.org

Finally, save the date: On May 1st, there will be a huge immigrant justice march in conjunction with a national call for folks to stay away from work and to not consume anything all day. There will be a rally at noon at Dolores Park, with a march leaving at 1. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets last year to beat back attacks on immigrant communities, but scapegoating, ICE raids and oppressive legislation continue. Watch for more details!

Washington's Wars and Occupations:
Month in Review #23
March 29, 2007
By Max Elbaum, War Times/Tiempo de Guerras


TODAY'S ANTIWAR DILEMMAS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

In March 1965, before ordering the first deployment of U.S. ground troops to Vietnam (U.S. "advisers" had been there for years) President Lyndon Johnson told Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara: "I don't think anything is gonna be as bad as losing, and I don't see any way of winning."

Johnson had just received a classified briefing saying that the U.S. client regime in South Vietnam was about to collapse. Military experts informed the President that only a huge U.S. military commitment could avert defeat in the short run. They said that looking ahead even "warfare of any design, scale or duration" could not assure lasting success. Maxwell Taylor, then the country's most famous active-duty general and Ambassador to South Vietnam, warned against sending U.S troops, arguing that Vietnamese civilians would turn to patriotic resistance against the "white-faced soldier, armed, equipped and trained as he is" as a successor to the hated French colonialists.

A few days later Johnson commiserated about Vietnam with his old friend Richard
Russell of Georgia, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee. "I guess
we got no choice, but it scares the death out of me," Johnson said. "Those marines, they'll be killing a whole lot of friendly Vietnamese," Russell responded.

"Airplanes ain't worth as damn, Dick," Johnson continued. Bombing only "lets you get your hopes up... A man can fight if he can see daylight down the road somewhere, but there ain't no daylight in Vietnam."
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