America Arms Israel

This is just a little bit of the impacts created on the Palestinians. Both Hilary and Barack support Israeli occupation. Many Americans, myself included, do not know or understand the history of the two groups. However, our ignorance doesn't make the atrocities less true or unreal. The negligence of our government extends far beyond our borders and causes hardships for millions of people around the world. Most of us already know this, but most of us never hear about it. So, this is me sharing a not so pretty story.

My May Day Speech

I wrote this and wanted to share:

Is it true that America is at war? Yes. Although it’s buried under political rhetoric and ignored by the now corporately owned media. America has declared war on just about anyone. And this is only the begging. Non American news outlets report nearly 1M Iraqi deaths and over 4,000 American deaths. Not only are Americans and the Iraqi people dying, one major fact is constantly overlooked. This is a rich man’s war fought by poor people of all skin color: white, black, brown everyone is a target. This occupation of Iraq isn’t about democracy, it is about the control of the world’s depleting resources and corporate exploitation for profiteering. George Bush’s version of democracy isn’t fair elections or sustainable energy, no, for the neo-cons in the Whitehouse’s their version of democracy is a Walmart and McDonalds on every street corner of the world. This war profiteering is brought to you by your own political, media, oil and military industry representatives. All of them –in bed together, raping us of our human right and our civil liberties. We can thanks people like media mogul Rupert Murdoch whom owns MySpace, the chairman and CEO of boeing Philip M. Condit whom builds smart bombs that are sold to the government to kill Iraqis for a profit, Attorney General John Ashcroft for his hard work of building the police state, the chair and CEO of Exxon mobile Lee Raymond who just this morning cleared 11 Billion dollars in oil profits from Jan to March of this year alone, the director of Haliburton and Citigroup and former CEO of Cheveron Ken Derr whom is invested in the prisons built along the southern border of the United States and is standing by to get his company’s hands on the second largest oil reserves in Iraq, the chairman of Project for a New American Century William Kristol whom is the brain behind all this corporate warmongering and America’s head towards a New Word Order, James A. Baker III whom is the senior counselor of the Carlyle Group –the world’s top elistist responsible for the control of oil, arms and the appointed heads of state and who ensures the world will end with a bang and with a few bucks in his pocket too. We can thank our own California state senator Dianne Feinstien and her husband for the $600 M tax payer money that was paid to Perini, the URS EG&G division and partner International Consultants Inc. –all military corporations. We can thank the 8 years of term served by our beloved President of the United States for fraudulently stealing his election, and lastly our own California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for his ties to George Bush, the 386M dollar cut to the CSU and the $7B investments in the prison system of California.

The list goes on. And so does the war in Iraq, and soon Iran, and then Syria, North Korea, and Venezula. In the meantime, our economoy is flailing because of the outsourcing of jobs to third world nations, the dollar is crashing and our country is now officially in a recession. And we are now paying $4 a gallon and over 100% more for our education than we were in 2001.

All of these revelations are not new. The war between the elitist and the rest of us, has been going on since construction of time. Only this time, the stakes are higher. And we the people are more divided than ever. Economically and racially: issues like Mexican Illegal immigration, Muslim Terrorism, Black Ghetto crime, the controversy over Indian casinos, and the indoctrination of “white is right,” are all factors purposely kept in place to keep people like you and me from understanding eachother, to blame eachother, to fight eachother, so that the real criminals and terrorists, whom sit in air conditioned buildings in Washington D.C., can continue their exploitations of all of us.

The corporate media is beating the drums of war, selling us erection and diet pills, SUVs, racism and violence as entertainment and bombarding us with military ads that glorify war. But war isn’t a football game. People don’t get to come home and toast touchdown and kiss cheerleaders. Our loved ones come home in body bags drapped in flags, they come home missing limbs, with post stress disorders. My adopted father Robert Werbiskis contracted cancer from the transportation of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. My dad help murder Vietnamese, and in turn he died because of it. Because of the dominant culture’s idea that people are dispensable, We had to fight to Navy just so that would pay for his medical expenses. This man “served” his country, and then his country abandoned him.

During the first anti-War movement in the late 60’s and into the 70’s, America’s youth understood what many of us don’t understand right now. And what is even scarier is the people protesting today, for the most part, are those same resilient souls from the Vietnam era. What about us? Where are the college students of America today? I’ll tell you. They are you. You are the heroes. You are the only ones that will be able to challenge or change anything. I cannot fight for your rights, you must be willing to do that yourself.

We, as Americans, were taught that Freedom and Liberty were bled for. People died, so that we would have the Right to ask questions and hold our government responsible. America was founded off the very principal that men were equal meant to be Free. This is what the Revolutionary War was fought over. Independence. Equality. Human and Civil Rights. These aren't imaginary ideas, these are the definitions of what Life means to all of us in the United States.

I know many people feel the same disappointment, I felt, of being born to the wrong generation. And while we are so busy looking at the door of the 60's and 70's that slammed shut many lifetimes ago, we fail to realize these are the days. These are our days. The days of a global community, with global stakes. I will leave you with the question, how will history remember us? Were we mindless and stupid and not willing to take a stance for what we believe in, or are we brave and persistent and will do what is right?

We should all be listening to the falsehoods and injustices both inside and outside of our country. For now is the time to write our own history. This is our moment. That big empty canvass is still blank, and it is waiting for all of us.

War kills, so We protest it, why don't you?

Yesterday in class there was a huge discussion over the perspective from a mother's son in war and an individual who is being critical of the war. I found it strange that the perspectives were separated. If anything, this goes to show the intrusiveness of the Iraq War. It effects everyone. Also, I want to point out that every person in the military has a mother. Every person in Iraq whom is killed has a mother. I protest the war! I protest against military recruitment. I protest military targeting.
Especially as a person of color. You can call my people illegal, deny them education and worker rights, call them diseased and send them to prison before you send them to a university, and still ask them to die in an elitist rich man's war?
Open your eyes. Truth hurts. Ignorance doesn't make what's real less true.
I will defend American life or Iraqi life. Life is life. A person is a person, despite if he or she is from Iraq, Iran, China, Tibet, Mexico, Venezuela, Afghanistan, or America. What's with the twisted perception that one American life is worth more than someone else's?
War is wrong, I don't care whose fighting it. People die. Sons die. Daughters die. Mothers die. That is why I'm against it. Because people that people love die. And people assume that if you don't want to fight, I'm a coward, and that couldn't be less than truth. Fighting should come on the senate floor, in scrutiny of an administration that want to occupy, invade, bomb, and exploit another country.
This war is not without consequence. Your $4 a gallon of gas is brought to you by war. Our ignorance of Muslims that can feed racism and or insensitivity for life outside the United States is brought to you by war. Family and friends in coffins, or missing limbs, or suffering from post military stress disorders, or the cancer my father died from shipping Agent Orange during the Vietnam War and the military's negligence of him was brought to us by war. Why don't you defend your loved one's life by protesting the war?!!! So please edit your ignorant and calloused assumptions and think before you speak -unless your willing to go yourself and sacrifice all of your loved ones for what, cause not everyone is selfish and thinks only about themselves and their own. Some of us love people that are not related to us. Some of us give a shit about EVERYONE. Some of us care and don't want your son, my son, your daughter, my daughter, your cousin, my cousin, niece, nephew, mom, dad, best friend etc. out there fighting and dying in an illegal, pre-emptive, unjust, never ending, not justified, president lied to us, occupying another country, whom we bomb their water supply, and then re-instate them with film crews showing us as good Samaritans, War. Period.

I will not defend the governments misuse of our precious military for the murdering of Iraqi's or Americans, your son or my father,
Period. So instead of fighting with me, why don't you come stand with me on May 1st in the CSUMB quad at noon and the rest of us whom protest and try to end this War, so all of our loved ones come home...

Character VS Racism

Famous and controversial author Sherman Alexie recently came to speak at CSUMB. He discussed his controversial book Flight.
Flight is a story of resistance through Native American rhetoric. This novel is excellent. It's a voyage of adolescent conquest of a young Indian who is trying to find balance in his orphan world. He is in search of healing his soul from a fractured identity. The book is about tradition. Male victimization in western culture and the most important act of forgiveness. Sherman Alexie wrote this book to answer his children's pressing questions about the Iraq war. The writing is candid and surprisingly cool. He draws on references to P. Diddy and MP3 players. The tone is as naked and raw as could be. One thing that is really powerful about the book, is Alexie's revengeless plot. He transcends issues of race, and instead makes all characters flawed: Indians, Anglos, women, men, it doesn't matter. To Sherman, all people are monsters and capable of the ugliest of actions.
I put Alexie on the top author lists. Next to Hunter S. Thompson and Chuck Palahniuk. That's right folks, his writing is that good.

The Gas Guy

I was driving down Del Monte Blvd. in Marina, and I saw the old Shell station was fenced off. The low grade wire fence had bouquets of red daisies and yellow roses. I asked my friend, what's up with the flowers? The man died, he said. What man, I asked. The Iranian man who was protesting the oil companies and died of a hunger strike. The man that slept in his store, refused to buy and sell gas, and went on hunger strikes. The man that made Time magazine and USA Today. I hadn't a clue whom this person was. All I could think was, this poor bastard died in protest. He died.
It seems sickening to me that this person who displayed the most earnest of qualities, like Mahatmas Gandhi, lived under our eyes and in ears distance and we never heard of him -at least I didn't. I thought of all the propaganda we are fed on a daily basis. The fake shit television, and plastic politicians and how powerless its all designed to make us feel. But we are powerful. One person is important. Each of us is a hero.

I guess in most cases, some of us are more heroic than others.

Driving a gas filled car is easy.

Willing to die in protest of war profiteering, occupation, and murder -is just something money can't buy.

Mr. I don't know your name, but I admire and respect you regardless...RIP.

International actions will be taken against the U.S.

Americans kill unarmed civilians. Truth hurts, doesn't it?


Sadly, other countryies aren't being passive about these crimes and atrocities against humanity. And it's about time, because AMERICA'S WAR ARE TERROR. Remember that every time you pump gas into your car.

Free Tibet? What about Iraq!

I find it hypocritical that the American government is so concerned over Tibet. Speaking on behalf of humanity and peace. What right does America have on intervening on behalf of the Tibetan people, while it murders Iraqis at the same time. Have we forgotten we have killed more than 1000x the number in Iraq?

Maybe we should clean up our on mess, and stop the murder of people under white stars and red stripes before we start pointing fingers at China.


Attached is a statement from a socialist organization:


For immediate release**
April 7, 2008 Press contact:
Richard Becker, 415-377-6321
Bill Hackwell, 415-269-7917
STATEMENT OPPOSING ANTI-CHINA CAMPAIGN


We are opposed to the campaign of disinformation and demonization that is targeting the People’s Republic of China (PRC.) The timing of the campaign is linked to China’s hosting of the 2008 Summer Olympics. That the Olympics are taking place in China is of historic significance and great pride to all the country’s people. It was less than six decades ago that China emerged from a century of colonialist humiliation at the hands of the same big powers that are spearheading the China-bashing campaign today.


Washington is providing financial, political, diplomatic and propaganda support to the racist demonization effort, supposedly because of concern for “human rights.” This is the same government that is directly responsible for the death of one million Iraqis since 2003.

While one out of every three Iraqis have been killed, wounded or displaced since 2003 the US government is eager to have people in the US., especially students, protest any government other than their own. One pretext for the anti-China campaign is the fact that the PRC has trade relations with Sudan. The US wants to overthrow the government of oil-rich Sudan and replace it with a puppet. It has supported “rebel groups” who are prolonging the civil war. The people of the Sudan, who are suffering greatly, are cynically used as a fund raising vehicle by organizations that have raised tens of millions of dollars but have never spent a penny actually helping the people of Sudan, including those who live in the Darfur region.

Demonization campaigns against particular countries and their leaders are not just media exercises. Over the last two decades, such campaigns have preceded the invasions of Iraq and Panama, the bombing war against Yugoslavia, the coups in Haiti and attempted coup in Venezuela, and a threatened war against Iran. The pattern is clear and so too is the danger.


Regarding Tibet, for many centuries a region of China, the hand of Washington in the latest events is obvious for anyone who wants to see. For more than 50 years, the CIA and other U.S. government agencies have trained, funded, coordinated and supported the old feudal and repressive regime in Tibet represented by the Dalai Lama. The CIA front group the National Endowment for Democracy funds the International Campaign for Tibet, the Tibetan Youth Congress, the Tibetan People’s Uprising Movement and the Dalai Lama himself. The U.S. maintains close ties with the Tibetan “government-in-exile” in India, whose real aim is to break away a region making up a quarter of China’s territory. These U.S. actions constitute an effort to de-stabilize and dismember the Peoples Republic of China. The progress in education, women’s rights, employment and health care would be immediately eviscerated if the old serf-owning ruling elite, represented by the Dalai Lama, was brought back to power.


No one, least of all progressive people, should be misled about what is really going on. The real motivation for the anti-China campaign has nothing to do with human rights or liberation, and everything to do with an agenda of global domination.


We the undersigned call for an end to the disinformation and demonization campaign against China, and a halt to the attempts to boycott and disrupt the 2008 Olympics.


Initial Signers:

Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General
Muna Coobtee, Party for Socialism and Liberation
Tony Gonzales, American Indian Movement-West*
Richard Becker, Western Region Coordinator, ANSWER Coalition*
Dave Ewing, Co-Chair,U.S.-China Peoples Friendship Association,San Francisco
Willie Bartolome, Coordinator, Philippine Peasant Support Network (Pesante)-USA
Arturo P. Garcia, Philippine Immigrant Network for Empowerment
Bob Anderson, Stop the War Machine, Albuquerque, New Mexico*
Chuck Kaufman, Co-Coordinator, Nicaragua Network*
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Civil Rights Attorney
Peter Erlinder, Law Professor, former President of the National Lawyers Guild
Riva Enteen, member, National Lawyers Guild
Idriss Stelley Foundation
Education Not Incarceration, San Francisco Chapter
San Francisco Village Voice Community Radio
Mesha Monge Irizarry, San Francisco Bayview National Black Newspaper reporter*
Gilberto López y Rivas, Professor and Journalist
Beatrice Eisman, U.S.-Vietnam Friendship Association*
Mario Santos, National Coordinator,Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines—USA
Jim Lafferty, Interim General Manager, KPFK 90.7 FM Pacifica Radio* and Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild, Los Angeles*
Ecumenical Fellowship for Justice and Peace-Los Angeles
Judi Cheng, New York City, NY
Eli Stephens, Left I on the News
Allen Cooper, Veterans for Peace, GI Rights Hotline*
Peing Baclig, Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV)*
Jack Vergara, Echo Park Community Coalition (EPCC)*
Pons De Leon, First Quarter Storm Network (FQSN)-USA-

*Organizations for Identification Only