President
Obama will give his final State of the Union address on January 12, 2016 and
the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance is calling on people to join us
in speaking out and delivering our State of the Union petition to
President Obama and the US Congress.
Mark your calendars and join us: January 12,
2016 at 1:30PM in front of the US Supreme Court on First Street, NE across from
the US Capitol
CALL TO ACTION TO DECLARE THE REAL STATE
OF THE UNION – JAN. 12, 2016
Guided by conscience, reason, and deeply held convictions, the
National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance calls upon all people of good
will to come to Washington, DC on Tuesday January 12, 2016 to actively
participate in a witness of nonviolent civil resistance, challenging President
Barack Obama and the United States Congress to address the real state of the
union, to immediately stop all U.S. acts of war, and to make significant
changes that will put the people of the United States on the path to acting
cooperatively with all in the world so that we can all live together in a world
of peace, sharing our resources fairly.
The president will deliver his State of the Union speech to the
U.S. Congress on that day and tragically for the world, without a doubt, his
presentation will once again be a threadbare act of political theatre with no
relevance to the masses of people here in the United States or around the
world. The escalating violence and tyranny of an expanding American empire
abroad is destabilizing the world. The US Congress is bought and paid for by
corporations and a wealthy minority who believe that assertion of global
military control is the only way to ensure their corporate success. Congress
willingly rubber stamps empire’s ongoing wars, with U.S. citizens footing the
bill, paying the trillions of dollars in military costs benefiting only the 1
percent while causing crippling injuries, deaths, extreme hardship and
suffering for so much of the world. Congress is nothing more than a bipartisan
betrayer of the people. The ongoing wars for empire must end if humanity is to
survive.
To be more specific, the perpetual wars waged by the U.S. are
illegal, immoral, and enriching the wealthy financial corporate elites as
millions within the U.S. lack basic needs, and billions around the world live
in extreme poverty. We see how the wars and occupations abroad, fueled by fear
and profit, have literally and figuratively turned inwards against the American
people, impoverishing and imprisoning us. The US drone wars are directed at the
poorest and least powerful in places like Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan,
Afghanistan, Iraq, and other countries around the world. The people of Syria
are now experiencing the US neocon strategy to "redraw the map of the Middle
East", greatly exacerbating the international refugee crisis. The region
is further threatened by the continued oppression and persecution of the
Palestinians with US consent and complicity. The ultimate weapon in the U.S.
arsenal still poses a serious danger to all on this planet and all these
weapons must be eliminated by all countries which control them.
Furthermore, the racist nature of empire with its structures of
violence and oppression are directed at all of us. Islamophobia, racism, police
violence, and the growing security surveillance state must be resisted to
protect the liberty of all. From schools to the prison industrial complex with
mass incarceration and solitary confinement at home, to Guantanamo and other
sites of indefinite detention and torture abroad, we are all caught up in the
empire’s systemic violence threatening the freedom of all. Undocumented people,
victims of US economic trade deals and support of oppressive governments, are
rounded up, held in for-profit jails for extended periods of time before
deportation. The empire’s short-sighted thirst for profit, strategic
domination, control of fossil fuels and other natural resources are leading us
to more war and destruction of earth’s habitat and climate. We must actively
resist and oppose the racism and violence of empire! We must save Mother Earth!
Our resources must be directed away from the war machine and used for peaceful
purposes, placing people over profit, with the goal as nothing less than saving
of all life on our planet.
We urge those who are not able to be in Washington on January 12
to organize actions locally. We especially encourage those who are already
speaking out against drones across the country to consider a simultaneous
action. We support our friends in California who are already working on an
action there. For information on the actions at Creech and Beale, contact mailto:smallworldradio@outlook.com.
Join us in the streets of Washington, D.C., on January 12, 2016 as
we all present our message on the real State of the Union to President Obama
and the Congress.
For more information or to get involved contact: malachykilbride@yahoo.com joyfirst5@gmail.com or mobuszewski at Verizon dot net.
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