Calll Out for Solidarity:
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“\;We call on the internat ional community to join us on Sunday\, October 7th in our actions across t he globe. If we are not present in your city\, we ask that you or your gro up organize an action to bring an end to not only this war\, but every war . The impending war against Iran and Syria. The war on drugs. The war agai nst women. The war against people of color and the poor. The war against i ndigenous peoples and their lands. The war against our environment. All WA RS.”\;
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\nCall Out –\; Full Te xt :
\nThis Oct 7th marks the 11th anniversary of the US / NATO led War and Occupation of Afghanistan. In these 11 years we’ve seen the US and its allies burn hundreds of copies of the holy Quran\, urinate on the bod ies of dead Afghans and the CIA torture people to death. All of this happe ned with zero accountability and complete impunity. This has been proven b y the US Justice Dept recent decision to not prosecute. The US military ha s shown its racism with “Kill Teams” who ran around killing civilians for sport and then collected body parts as trophies. In a particularly heinous so-called “incident” a soldier by the name of Staff Sgt. Robert Bales wen t house to house in several villages stalking and murdering men\, women an d children and attempted to destroy the evidence by burning the bodies. Th e US was quick to say this was isolated and that the attacker acted alone. The official Afghan investigation however\, determined that up to 20 US m ilitary personnel were involved. Sgt. Bales was brought back to the US alm ost immediately and no Afghan official was ever allowed to interview him. The list of atrocities could go on forever. This is the justice that the U S &\; NATO have given us with their occupation.
\nOver the past y ear\, rumors have been circulating in the media about villagers taking up arms to defend themselves against the Taliban. Not only that\, they have a lso stated that they are ready to fight the US &\; NATO forces. And the y have little to no trust in the corrupt central Afghan government. The re bellion is growing and is said to be active in over 50 villages from recen t reports. And thats only in the east. The facts about these groups are ha rd to find\, but if these rebels are genuine in what they’re saying\, then we support them. It must be said that historically\, various rival politi cal groups have been armed and funded by foreign interests\, one of the wo rst offenders being the CIA. However\, Pakistan\, Saudi Arabia\, Iran\, Ch ina\, Russia\, India and other regional powers are equally guilty of causi ng chaos. These groups were vicious and tore communities apart and that is not what we support. What we need is a true peoples resistance movement i n Afghanistan dedicated to liberation.
\nNow we must ask ourselves “ are we really in solidarity with the people of Afghanistan?”. And “what ar e we doing to support them?”
\nAfghans for Peace has taken the same stance as those who are said to be in rebellion. We are against the US/NAT O occupation. We are against the Taliban and we are certainly opposed to t he wildly corrupt Afghan puppet regime in place right now.
\nWe want to see the resistance flourish! We support the resistance against imperia lism! We support the resistance against Taliban and we want our people fre e from the criminals that comprise the central government! We want our peo ple to have the right to self-determination! We want autonomy for our peop le! They have the right to defend themselves against ALL oppressors!
\nAt this point it has become clear that the US cannot sustain this war. US generals are desperately trying to prop up an Afghan National Army and Afghan National police force. These same security forces have been in wide spread revolt! Attacking their US &\; NATO counterparts at an alarming rate. The most obvious sign of the occupations unsustainability is that t he US is losing more active duty soldiers to suicide than they are in the battlefield.
\nTo the troops we say:
\nGO AWOL!
\nRefuse
to fight!
\nStart a revolt amongst your ranks!
To the Multi N ational Corporations and capitalists that are slowly plotting to rape our lands\; the oil companies\, the mining companies and the thousands upon th ousands of contractors we say:
\nGET OUT NOW!
\nGet out and be
happy you still have your lives!
This message of anger should espe cially be heard by our own people who leave the west only to return to Afg hanistan to be contractors and translators for the occupying forces. These people are a disgrace to us all. This war would be impossible without the m. They may be related to many of us\, but they are still an intricate pie ce in the wests colonial aspirations. They’ve chosen sides already and the refore we’re against them too.
\nWe are fed up with the inaction of US lawmakers in doing next to nothing to end this war. From them\, we’ve c ome to expect this and we have no illusions that the state ever had the in terests of the Afghan people in mind. After all\, the US has been in a sta te of perpetual war since its inception. We are equally fed up with the in action of the people living in west who have also done next to nothing to challenge their governments to end the wars. This includes our own people – the Afghan community and the US antiwar movement which continues with it s played out tactics of singing and permitted marches. We DO NOT need perm ission to express our outrage! These types of demonstrations give people t he illusion they’ve done something for the Afghan people\, but in reality does absolutely nothing to stop the occupation. This cooptation sucks the energy out of any real meaningful actions and pacifies much needed resista nce. To them we say: stop tokenizing us. Stop using us as a way to increas e your membership base and a way to make yourselves relevant.
\nAfgh ans for Peace is launching a new campaign\, ”MISSION: FAILURE – 11 years o f War &\; Occupation”. This international campaign will take up many di fferent forms\; from forums\, conferences and rallies to street demonstrat ions and direct actions. The launch of this latest campaign will start on the anniversary of the war. We call on the international community to join us on Sunday\, October 7th in our actions across the globe. If we are not present in your city\, we ask that you or your group organize an action t o bring an end to not only this war\, but every war. The impending war aga inst Iran and Syria. The war on drugs. The war against women. The war agai nst people of color and the poor. The war against indigenous peoples and t heir lands. The war against our environment. All WARS.
\nThis year w e say NO to ALL WARS\, EXCEPT CLASS WAR!
\n* Afghans for Peace will not be bringing any group identifying banners or signs. We do not want any other group to bring signs identifying their groups either. We encourage everyone to come as individuals. Bring signs and banners with relevant mes saging and lets keep our affiliations out it. We do not want any organizat ions or any endorsements. We want people to participate as individuals. Le ts move forward in Solidarity.
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