"Chipani chathu chokhacho chili ndi mapiko awiri akumanja, wina wotchedwa Republican, wina Democratic."
โGore Vidal
Tsiku langa loyamba kubwerera ku NYC nditakhala sabata ku Santa Cruz ndikugwira ntchito ngati MC wa One Dance: The People's Summit inali ina yochokera ku Hollywood script. Pamene ndimayesa kulowa mu Sitima ya N, khamu la okwera lidatsika. Nditakhala mayendedwe asanu kuchokera ku Manhattan, ndinadziwa kuti anthuwo sakutsika kwenikweni. Apa ndipamene munthu wodziwa bwino ntchitoyo akuyang'ana m'sitima kuti ayang'ane ndipo nthawi yomweyo adawona munthu wopanda pokhala atagona pakona. Sindinafunikirenso kuloลตa mโgalimotomo kuti ndilembe zimene zinasowekapo. Munthu wopanda pokhala ayenera kuti anali wonyansa. Ndidathamangira pagalimoto yotsatira (ndi wina aliyense) ndikudzipanikizaโฆ Nditaimirira pafupi ndi anzanga anzanga kuti ndimve fungo loipa, mafuta onunkhira, komanso kununkhira kwa ndudu, ndinayesa kuganizira za California ndi One Dance (http://www.onedancesummit.org).
Okonza Sylvie ndi Richard Oxman anali ndi chidziลตitso chosungira pafupifupi onse otenga nawo mbali pa B&B imodzi. Chifukwa chake, kugawana malo ndi Cynthia McKinney, Michael Parenti, William Blum, Stan Goff, Greg Elich, ndi John Trumpbour zinali zokumana nazo zapadera ... ).
Koma ngakhale kuti zokambiranazo zinali zamoyo komanso zosayembekezereka patebulo la kadzutsa, panali chidziwitso chodziwika pa mkangano womwe unachitika pazochitikazo.
Mauthenga ofunikira adaperekedwa, maulalo atsopano adapangidwa, kuseka kudagawidwa, ndikulonjezansoโฆ Mwachindunji, ndikulankhula za kusamvana kumanzere komwe kudachitika zaka zinayi za Purezidenti (sic) Bush. Poyang'anizana ndi kumenyedwa kosalekeza pankhani yamtendere, chilungamo, komanso kulingalira bwino, ngakhale anthu okhwima maganizo mwadzidzidzi akuwonetsa anthu omwe ali pachiwonetsero cha demokalase ndikuukira mwankhanza aliyense amene akukhulupirira kuti mbali zonse ziwiri zimangopereka mitundu yosiyanasiyana ya poizoni yemweyo.
Chifukwa cha antics a anthu ngati Rumsfeld ndi Ashcroft, chigawenga chankhondo Wesley Clark adatsimikizira Michael Moore za "anti-war" yake.
Dubya ndi gulu lake lojambula zithunzi zachita zomwe Al Gore sakanatha kuzikwanitsa: apangitsa kuti Democratic Party iwonekere yosiyanaโฆngakhale (kunjenjemera) kupita patsogolo.
M'malingaliro anga, liwu lofunikira mu sentensi yomaliza ndi "kuwonekera." Ngakhale kuti maphwando sakhala amodzi (kupatula nthawi ndi Cynthia McKinney kutsimikizira aliyense za izo), pamlingo wapamwamba kwambiri (ie oyimira pulezidenti, mamembala amphamvu a Senate ndi Nyumba), malingaliro amaposa zenizeni. Bush atha kuyankhula zachitetezo cha dziko pomwe Ted Kennedy akubwerezanso ntchito zake zachitetezo cha anthu koma samanenanso za asitikali akumwalira ku Iraq kapena mwana wolumala (wosadziwika?) Akugulitsa chithunzi, phukusiโฆndipo ndife ogula mofunitsitsa kwambiri.
Pa One Dance, membala wa omvera adatikakamiza tonsefe kuganiza zovota Green (kapena ayi). Ananenanso kuti "akudziwa" kuti Purezidenti Gore akanachita mosiyana kwambiri ndi Bush mu dziko la pambuyo pa 9/11. Ngakhale palibe amene anganene motsimikiza zomwe Gore akanachita, ndidapereka kawonedwe kachidule pazaka za Clinton-Goreโฆmalingaliro omwe adasiyana kwambiri ndi masomphenya a wonditsutsa a Gore ngati purezidenti.
Komabe, ndikadabwereransoโฆzambiri: kubwereranso kwa ngwazi ya Democrat: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Nawa mwachidule, mwachidule zaka zomwe si a Republican kuyambira WWII.
FDR
Nditha kupitiliza masamba koma, pakadali pano, kumbukirani kuti FDR's America idamenya nkhondo yabwino yolimbana ndi tsankho ndi gulu lankhondo lopatukana. Inamenyera nkhondo imeneyo kuti ithetse nkhanza mwa kutenga nawo mbali pakuwombera asilikali odzipereka, njala ya POWs, kuphulitsa mabomba mwadala kwa anthu wamba, kuwononga zipatala, kuwotcha mabwato opulumutsa moyo, ndi ku Pacific kuwira nyama kuchokera ku zigaza za adani kupanga zokongoletsa patebulo kwa okoma mtima. Ndipo Roosevelt, mtsogoleri wa gulu lankhondo lodana ndi tsankho, lodana ndi nkhanza, adasaina Executive Order 9066, ndikulowetsa anthu aku Japan aku America opitilira 100,000 popanda chifukwa ... misasa yandende.
Truman
Apanso, ndikadakhala ndi malo ochulukirapo koma tiyeni tivomereze, Truman adachita zomwe Stalin, Reagan, Nixon, ndi Mao sanayerekeze kuchita: Adaponya bomba la nyukiliya pa anthu wamba. โTagwiritsa ntchito [bomba] polimbana ndi anthu amene asiya kunamizira kuti akumvera malamulo a mayiko ankhondo,โ Truman analongosola motero, motero analungamitsa chosankha chake chowononga anthu amene anawatcha โanthu ankhanza, ankhanza, opanda chifundo, ndi otengeka maganizo.โ Iye ananena mwachidule kuti: โNdi bomba la atomiki. Ndicho chinthu chachikulu kwambiri mโmbiri yonse.โ
JFK
Cuba Project (aka "Operation Mongoose") idakhazikitsidwa pansi pa Camelot (olamulira a Kennedy) mu Januware 1962 ndi cholinga cha US chothandizira "anthu aku Cuba kugwetsa boma la Chikomyunizimu ku Cuba ndikukhazikitsa boma latsopano lomwe United States ingachite. khalani mwamtendere.โ
Noam Chomsky akufotokoza za Operation Mongoose kuti: โZomwe zachitika ndi zigawenga zapadziko lonse lapansi zomwe monga ndikudziwira zilibe mnzake, kupatula nkhanza zachindunji. Zimaphatikizanso kuwukira malo omwe anthu wamba, kuphulitsa mahotela, kumiza zombo zasodzi, kuwononga zida zamafuta, kuwononga mbewu ndi ziweto, pamlingo wokulirapo, kuyesa kupha, kupha kwenikweni, kuphulitsa ndege, kuphulitsa mabomba kwa mishoni zaku Cuba kunja, ndi zina zambiri. Ndi zigawenga zazikulu. .โ
LBJ
George Papandreou atasankhidwa kukhala Prime Minister waku Greece mu 1964, mbiri yake yowolowa manja siinakhale bwino ku Washington. Zinthu zidaipiraipira pomwe Greece idakwiyitsanso wopindula ndi mphamvu zake zazikulu pokangana ndi Turkey pa Kupro, kenako ndikutsutsa malingaliro a US ogawa chilumbachi. Lyndon Johnson adayitana kazembe waku Greece kuti aphunzire mwachidule za mfundo zomwe si za Republican: "Pezani nyumba yamalamulo yanu ndi malamulo anu. America ndi njovu, Kupro ndi utitiri. Ntchentche ziwirizi zikapitiriza kuyabwa njovu, zikhoza kungothyoledwa ndi chitamba cha njovu, nโkuthyoledwa bwinoโฆTimapereka ndalama zambiri zabwino zaku America kwa Agiriki, Bambo Ambassador. Ngati Nduna Yanu ingandipatse nkhani yokhudza demokalase, nyumba yamalamulo, ndi malamulo, iye, nyumba yamalamulo yake, ndi malamulo ake sangakhale kwanthawi yayitali.
Carter
Jimmy Carter anali purezidenti yemwe ananena kuti ufulu wachibadwidwe ndi "moyo wa ndondomeko yathu yakunja" ngakhale adapanga mgwirizano ndi Baby Doc Duvalier kuti asavomereze zonena za othawa kwawo aku Haiti. Kubwereza kwake, komabe, sikunali kokha ku dziko lathu lapansi; Carter adalandiranso Mphotho ya Nobel ku Southeast Asia. Ku Cambodia, Jimmy Carter ndi wothandizira chitetezo cha dziko, Zbigniew Brzezinski "anayesetsa mosatopa kuti apeze njira zothetsera mtendere" poyambitsa mgwirizano wa US-Thai mu 1979 wotchedwa Task Force 80 yomwe, kwa zaka khumi, inalimbikitsa gulu lodziwika bwino la Khmer Rouge. pansi pa chikwangwani cha zolinga zonse cha anti-Communism. Mtolankhani wina dzina lake Alexander Cockburn anati: โNkhani zingโonozingโono zimene zili ku United States zokhudza gulu la Khmer Rouge zinatha mwadzidzidzi mu 1979. Chochititsa chidwi nโchakuti, zaka ziลตiri zokha mโmbuyomo, Carter anasonyeza โkulemekeza ufulu wa anthuโ pamene anafotokoza mmene dziko la United States silinabwereke ngongole ku Vietnam. Iye analungamitsa chikhulupiriro chimenechi chifukwa chakuti โchiwonongekocho chinali chofanana.โ
Tikupita chakum'mwera "kupititsa patsogolo demokalase ndi ufulu wa anthu," tili ndi East Timor. Chigawo chakale cha Chipwitikizichi chinali chandamale cha chiwembu cha dziko la Indonesia kuyambira pa Disembala 7, 1975. Maluso a Daniel Patrick Moynihan pakusunga United Nations osakhudzidwa. Atatsitsimula Gerald Ford (koma akusungabe luso la msilikali mnzake wa Nobel Henry Kissinger), Carter anavomereza kuwonjezereka kwa thandizo lankhondo ku Indonesia mu 1977 pamene chiลตerengero cha imfa chinayandikira 100,000. Mwachidule, opitirira gawo limodzi mwa magawo atatu a anthu a East Timorese (anthu oposa 200,000) anataya miyoyo yawo chifukwa cha njala, matenda, kupha anthu, kapena nkhanza. Pafupi ndi kwawo, Carter adapanganso chizindikiro chake ku Central America.
Monga mtolankhani William Blum akufotokozera, mu 1978, wopambana Mphotho ya Mtendere wa Nobel anayesa kupanga njira "yodziletsa" kwa Sandinistas kudzera mu chithandizo chachinsinsi cha CIA cha "mabungwe atolankhani ndi ogwira ntchito ku Nicaragua." A Sandinistas atatenga mphamvu, Blum akufotokoza kuti, "Carter adavomereza CIA kuti ipereke thandizo la ndalama ndi zina kwa otsutsa." Komanso mโchigawo chimenecho, chimodzi mwa zinthu zomalizira zimene Carter anachita monga pulezidenti chinali kuitanitsa ndalama zokwana madola 10 miliyoni kuti zithandize asilikali ndi alangizi ku El Salvador mwina โkuti alimbikitse chitukuko cha zachuma ndi chikhalidwe cha anthu.โ Kuwona komaliza kwa "mgwirizano wapadziko lonse wozikidwa pa malamulo apadziko lonse" panthawi ya Carter Administration imatifikitsa ku Afghanistan, malo omwe Soviet anaukira mu December 1979. Apa ndi pamene Carter ndi Brzezinski adagwirizana ndi otsutsa-Communist ku Saudi Arabia ndi Pakistan kuti igwiritse ntchito Chisilamu ngati njira yodzutsira anthu aku Afghani kuti achitepo kanthu. Ndi CIA yomwe imayang'anira ntchitoyi, ndalama zokwana $40 biliyoni za okhometsa msonkho ku US zidagwiritsidwa ntchito kulembera "omenyera ufulu" ngati Osama bin Laden. Ena onse, monga akunena, ndi mbiri yakale.
Clinton / Gore
Mu 1993 ndi 1994, pamene Clinton anali ndi "ubwino" wa Congress yoyendetsedwa ndi demokalase, Emperor Bill adasiya lonjezo lake loti apereke chitetezo kwa othawa kwawo aku Haiti, adakana lonjezo lake "lochitapo kanthu" motsutsana ndi chiletso cha gulu lankhondo. pa amuna kapena akazi okhaokha komanso akazi okhaokha, ndipo adasiya nkhani yake yodziwika bwino ya kampeni: chisamaliro chaumoyo. Ngakhale "akusangalala" ndi Democratic House ndi Senate, Clinton adasaina NAFTA ndi GATT, adawonjezera bajeti ya Pentagon ndi $ 25 biliyoni, adathamangitsa Jocelyn Elders, adataya Lani Guinier, adaphulitsa Iraq ndi Balkans, adayambitsanso zilango zakupha ku Iraq, ndipo adapereka chigamulo. Zimenezi zinatipatsa apolisi ochuluka, ndende zambiri, ndiponso milandu ina 58 yoti tiziphedwa. Atatsogolera "chisinthiko" chodziwika bwino cha Republican mu 1994, Slick Willie adapitilira kuguba ndi eni ake. Zaka ziwiri zotsatira za ndondomeko yachilendo zinatipatsa mabomba ochulukirapo komanso zilango zambiri ku Iraq; chithandizo chobisika cha zigawenga zankhondo ku Haiti; kukulitsa zilango motsutsana ndi Cuba, Iran, ndi Libya; ndi chithandizo chowonekera cha Boris Yelstin wachinyengo. Kunyumba, Clinton adapitilizabe kuukira ogwira ntchito popereka ndalama zolumikizirana ndi telefoni ndikuchepetsa zomwe zidaseketsa kale zotsutsana ndi anthu. Monga mbama yomaliza pamaso pa mapiko "omasuka" a chipani chake, Clinton adasaina chikalata chochotsa zachitukuko. Komanso pazaka za Clinton / Gore, Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act idasainidwa kukhala lamulo (April 24, 1996). Lingaliro ili la USA PATRIOT Act linali ndi mfundo zomwe Clinton mwiniyo adavomereza kuti "amapanga masinthidwe angapo molakwika pamalamulo athu olowa ndi otuluka, osakhudzana ndi kulimbana ndi uchigawenga." Kutsutsana kosagwirizana ndi malamulo kumeneku sikunachite zochepa kuthana ndi zomwe zimatchedwa uchigawenga koma zambiri zochepetsera ufulu wa aliyense-ochokera kudziko lina kapena wokhalamo-omwe sagwirizana ndi mfundo za US, zakunja kapena zapakhomo.
Nanga bwanji chilengedweโฆakuti dera la Gore? Mu 1996, David Brower, pulezidenti wakale wa Sierra Club, analemba nkhani ya Los Angeles Times ya mutu wakuti, "Chifukwa Chake Sindidzavotera Clinton." Mugawoli, Brower adapereka ziwonetsero zambiri zothandizidwa ndi Clinton, zomwe zidaphwanya chithunzi cha Bill kapena Al Gore ngati "pro-environment." Zina mwa zolakwazi ndi monga kudutsa kwa wokwera mitengo yopulumutsira, kusaina Chikalata cha Panama, kupitiriza kugwiritsa ntchito mankhwala a methyl bromide, kufooketsa lamulo la Endangered Species Act, kutsitsa malipiro odyetsera ziweto pamtunda, kuthandizira makampani a shuga a Florida. kufooketsa lamulo la Safe Drinking Water Act, kubweza chiletso choletsa kupanga ndi kuitanitsa ma PCB ochokera kunja, ndi kulola kutumizidwa kunja kwa mafuta aku Alaska. Izi, ndi zina zonyada zomwe Clinton/Gore adachita, zapangitsa Brower kunena kuti awiriwa a Democratic Democratic "adawononga kwambiri chilengedwe m'zaka zitatu kuposa momwe Purezidenti Bush ndi Reagan adachitira zaka 12."
Monga ndidanenera, zonsezi sizimangoneneratu zamtsogoloโฆkoma ndikudabwa kuti ndi otsatira angati a Dean/Kerry/Clark omwe adavomereza mbiri ya Democratic Party paudindo waukulu. Palibe wina koma George Carlin amene ananena kuti: โMbiri si zinthu zongochitika zokha; ndi zachiwembu, zokonzedwa bwino, ndi kuphedwa ndi anthu olamulira.โ Chifukwa chake, mbiri yaposachedwa ya purezidenti wa demokalase iyenera kudziwitsidwa ndi njira zinaโฆ
Musati mundikhulupirire ine pa izo; fufuzani nokha.
Musandikhulupirire pamene ndikuwonetsa kufanana pakati pa maphwando, funsani munthu wina wa ku America yemwe amangokhalira kukhala opanda pokhala kapena gay kapena odwala popanda inshuwalansi ya umoyo kapena munthu amene wamangidwa m'nyumba yosungirako okalamba motsutsana ndi chifuniro chawo.
Tiye tikumveni mukufotokoza momveka bwino za njira zathu zopeka za zipani ziwiri zomwe zikuchulukirachulukira za akaidi aku US kapena akaidi akale omwe saloledwa kuvota.
Kapena yesani kufunsa, tinene, Mkurd kapena Guatemalan, Tibetan, Mexican, Angolan, kapena Colombian ngati amayamikira njira yanu yosankha Dean kuposa Green.
Fotokozerani mwana wogwira ntchito ku Pakistan kapena womenyera ufulu ku Chechyna kapena banja lomwe lili ndi njala ku Kabul kuti Wesley Clark ndi wosagwirizana ndi Purezidenti-Sankhani Bush.
>Kuchokera ku East Timor kupita ku West Bank kuchokera ku South Central kupita ku Northern Ireland funsani dziko lonse lapansi za demokalase ya zipani ziwiri za America.
Kamodzinso aife tikuyamikira momwe amalekanitsira magawo awiriwa, tifunika kuchitapo kanthu ... mwachindunji, pamodzi, kuchitapo kanthu mwamsanga. Kodi nchifukwa ninji kungongotchulako pang'ono za kuchepa kwa ntchito zachitukuko ku France ndi ku Italy kumapangitsa kuti anthu miliyoni azikhala mumsewu? Ndi liti pamene anthu aku America adzamvanso changu komanso udindo? Kodi tingachite chiyani, tidzachita chiyani tikazindikira kuti changu ndi udindo wathu?
Postscript: Monga wolemba nthawi yayitali wa Street News, ndikufuna kuwonjezera ndemanga za munthu wopanda pokhala pa N Sitima. Ngakhale sindinkafuna kugawana naye malo m'mawa womwewo, ndiyenera kuvomereza kuti kupezeka kwake kunandipangitsa kumwetulira. Ndili ku Santa Cruz, ndinapatsidwa mwayi wopezeka pa msonkhano wa atolankhani ndi msonkhano wolimbikitsa anthu osowa pokhala a mumzindawo. Zikuwoneka kuti "likulu lomwe likupita patsogolo ku California" lakhazikitsa lamulo loletsa kugona m'misewu yake (http://www.huffsantacruz.org kwa zambiri).
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