By Fine Print Staff
With President Obama promising the removal of combat troops from Iraq by 2010, we might wonder what place a peace organization has on UF campus. Yet with 17,000 troops preparing to go to Afghanistan, we must ask ourselves why our government is continuing to finance wars that have destroyed our international image while needlessly putting our courageous soldiers in harm’s way.
Campus CodePink hopes to inspire students interested in peaceful policies and human rights to raise their voices through creative and direct tactics. Campus CodePink also focuses on many issues that affect us nationally and locally. Campus CodePink marched with the No on Amendment 1 campaign to prevent discrimination and sponsored activism for social change workshops at UF through the Backbone Campaign Tour. The group hopes to provide a fun atmosphere for student activists while reminding President Obama that we hold him accountable for the promises for peace he has given to our generation.
Our upcoming events include a reading of “How We Got into Iraq” from “Dissent: Voices of Conscience,” a movie series that focuses on the realities and consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; a War Is NOT Green campaign for Earth Day; and a rally to demand that the Bush administration is held accountable for its actions of illegal wiretapping and torture.
If you are frustrated about these endless wars, saddened by humanitarian atrocities committed worldwide, appreciative of our brave soldiers that protect us at all costs, and astounded by the trillions of dollars being funneled into wars when our education and health care are in need, rise up, speak out and demand peace.
Campus CodePink meets the first Monday of every month. For more information and meeting details, check out www.codepinkgators.weebly.com or find us on Facebook and MySpace. If you’d like to get involved, please contact campuscodepink4peace@yahoo.com.
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I support Veterans for Peace as one of the most effective anti-war groups in America. We recognize that reliable intelligence is essential to preventing needless wars. Christmas Day was a near-death reminder that more bureaucracy has not solved the dangerous breakdown in national security.
VFP passed a resolution last year to seek accountability for the mistakes that allowed the 9/11/2001 attacks to succeed. Tell Congress the need to open a new investigation into the events of 9/11 is more urgent than ever. If 9/11 doesn’t matter, what does?
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VFP RESOLUTION: Support a Valid Investigation into the National Security Failures of the 9/11/2001 Attacks inside the United States.
Whereas the pretext for two illegal wars of occupation, torture and war crimes was justified by the catastrophic events of 9/11/2001, and
Whereas Congress was blocked by the White House from their intended investigation in connection with the massive national security failures of 9/11/2001, and
Whereas not one person has since been held accountable for the national security failures that allowed the 9/11/2001 attacks to succeed, and
Whereas Lee Hamilton, Co-chair of the 9/11 Commission confessed that his Commission was, in his words, “Set up to fail”, and
Whereas significant un-answered questions remain that challenge the official story of the events of 9/11/2001
Therefore Be It Resolved that Veterans For Peace supports a legitimate and non-partisan investigation into the catastrophic national security failures of 9/11/2001.
Harold, I think it’s important to understand that 9/11 is a psychological pretext for continuing the war in Afghanistan. It’s the specter of future attacks, not the specific desire for vengeance, that is routinely invoked by Obama et al. to justify our escalating war effort.
Investigating intelligence and security failures which allowed the attack to occur will do very little to divest the 9/11 attacks of their awesome psychological power. “Unanswered questions” mean some people haven’t been held accountable for dropping the ball, and some profiteers haven’t been exposed as such, but it’s hard to argue our intelligence agencies haven’t learned from their mistakes, even if they haven’t all been called to the mat.
All Christmas Day showed us was that if we want to project imperial power all over the globe, some amount of terrorism is inevitable. You simply can’t stop them all. The system did work on that day, as well as it possibly could have, because nobody died.
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