The Movement

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Sept.24 anti-war demonstrators ONCE AGAIN take to the streets to exercise the right to dissent that marks our democratic system. Not. Ive been marching since 1969 and it has absolutely no effect on the decision by the ruling class to go to war. Yes, marches help to mobilize and energize and even educate people but it seems to me we need to be organizing to stop the NEXT war and ALL war and that means changing the focus from certain politicians or certain policies to an examination and protest about the system which fosters not only war but poverty, racism and environmental destruction. You guessed it, capitalism.

Martin Luther King was on the right track when he organized the Poor Peoples March. One good that can come of the tragedy on the Gulf Coast is that poverty in the "wealthiest nation in history" is once again in the spotlight. Remember Johnsons War On Poverty ? We lost.

"The dispossed of this nation, the poor, both white and Negro, live in a cruelly unjust society. They must organize a REVOLUTION against that injustice, not against the lives of the persons who are their fellow citizens, but against the STRUCTURES through which the society is refusing to take means which have been called for, and which are at hand, to lift the load of poverty."
Martin Luther King Jr.

Read a thousand conservative blogs, editorials, commentaries etc and tell me if you ever see SYSTEMS or STRUCTURES mentioned once.

MLK again, in 1968 :

"... the crisis we face is international in scope.In fact it is inseperable from an international emergency which involves the poor, the dispossesed, and the exploited of the whole world. We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism. Americans in particular must help their nation repent of her modern economic imperialism."
This is what the demonstrations on the 24th should be calling for. Repentence.