NO MATTER WHO IS ELECTED -- WE SAY "NO" TO WAR AND REPRESSION!
We cannot allow a break in the resistance against the war, and we believe that possibilities for our future exist outside of the two options that we are being given during this presidential election. Those of you living in the NYC area, mark your calendars. Bring friends and join "Not In Our Name" group for a community gathering of opposition to the war and repression! When? November 2nd at 5pm on Election Day in Union Square [NYC]. Check out their website at:
http://www.notinourname.net

THE "NOT IN OUR NAME" PLEDGE OF RESISTANCE
We believe that as people living
in the United States it is our
responsibility to resist the injustices
done by our government, in our names

Not in our name
will you wage endless war
there can be no more deaths
no more transfusions of blood for oil

Not in our name
will you invade countries
bomb civilians, kill more children
letting history take its course
over the graves of the nameless

Not in our name
will you erode the very freedoms
you hav eclaimed to fight for

Not by our hands
will we supply weapons and funding
for the annihilation of families on foreign soil

Not by our mouths
will we let fear silence us

Not by our hearts
will we allow whole peoples
or countries to be deemed evil

Not by our will and Not in our name
We pledge resistance

We pledge alliance with those
who have come under attack
for voicing opposition to the war
or for their religion or ethnicity

We pledge to make common cause
with the people of the world
to bring about justice, freedom and peace

Another world is possible and we pledge to make it real!

FASCISM, ANYONE?
Dr Lawrence Britt, a political scientist, wrote an article about fascism which appeared in Free Inquiry magazine, a journal of humanist thought. Dr Britt studied the fascist regimes of Hitler [Germany], Mussolini [Italy], Franco [Spain], Suharto [Indonesia] and Pinochet [Chile]. He found the regimes all had 14 things in common, and he calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. The article is "Fascism Anyone?", Lawrence Britt, Free Inquiry, Spring 2003 on page 20. [Once you get to the bottom of those 14 characteristics you'll find yourself saying ... this sounds very familiar. Maybe a chill will run down your spine. Hum ... mon dieu ... sounds like King George II current regime in Washington DC.] Check it out here:
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~mckoskey/miscellaneous/facism.html