[Peace-discussion] RE: [GPUS-PAX] Greens Can Lead September Encampment

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:13:11 -0500

 Wonderful!

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From: peace-admin@lists.gp-us.org [mailto:peace-admin@lists.gp-us.org] On
Behalf Of zool .
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 7:34 PM
To: peace@lists.gp-us.org
Subject: RE: [GPUS-PAX] Greens Can Lead September Encampment

Joni--

We should probably take this to the discussion list or off-list.  But your
quote from Ghandi "provoked a response" (below).

--zool

"Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number.
Shake your chains to earth like dew.
Which in sleep has fallen on you.
Ye are many--they are few."

--Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Mask of Anarchy"

>From: "Joni LeViness" <myths16@cox.net>
>Reply-To: peace@lists.gp-us.org
>To: <peace@lists.gp-us.org>
>Subject: RE: [GPUS-PAX] Greens Can Lead September Encampment
>Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:59:51 -0500
>
>This is Where it's at Zool!
>Nonviolent Noncompliance, we need numbers tho, but even a few dozen 
>would be a start, will show/remind people how it's done. And who knows 
>perhaps as many people are vibrating at that frequency and we may see 
>greater numbers than we would imagine.
>I'm reminded of this quote, attributed to Gandhi:
>"The function of a civil resister is to provoke response. And we will 
>continue to provoke until they respond, or they change the law.  They 
>are not in control-we are.  That is the strength of civil resistance."
>Peace,
>joni
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: peace-admin@lists.gp-us.org [mailto:peace-admin@lists.gp-us.org] 
>On Behalf Of zool .
>Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 9:12 AM
>To: peace@lists.gp-us.org
>Subject: [GPUS-PAX] Greens Can Lead September Encampment
>
>Joni, Echo, Rebecca et al--
>
>While we should make every effort to have prime spots for Green 
>speakers at the demos in DC on September 15 and 29, I think that we 
>should take the lead on the Troop Out Now Coalition (TONC) call for an 
>encampment in DC beginning September 21.
>
>I think that this effort should be organized as a night-time encampment.  
>We
>can organize speakouts, poetry reading, music, discussion and share 
>food throughout the night.
>
>I encourage GPAX members and other Greens to plan to come to DC, to 
>bring tents, to prepare to step up from protest to resistance.  We will 
>need to stay awake all night, we will not be able to lie down in our 
>tents until daylight (a permit will be necessary to set up any 
>encampment; the permit constraints will not allow us to rest during the 
>night, but will allow us to do so during the day).  We will need to be 
>flexible as even limited success of an encampment (an antiwar 
>"Hooverville") will provoke threatened withdrawal of permits, more 
>repressive permit conditions, confiscation of tents, and arrests.  We 
>will want to organize waves of folks willing to pitch tents and risk 
>arrest in succession.
>
>To end the war in Iraq (which is likely to morph into war in Iran by 
>Fall), we will need to disrupt the government.  We will turn DC upside 
>down if we turn night into day.  A successful antiwar Hooverville in DC 
>can lead to encampments at federal offices or recruitment stations in 
>cities and towns across the country during the call for regional 
>actions in October (but why wait?).
>
>Revolutionary love is dharma.
>
>--zool
>
>
> >From: "Joni LeViness" <myths16@cox.net>
> >Reply-To: peace@lists.gp-us.org
> >To: <peace@lists.gp-us.org>,"'List for GPUS Steering Committee affairs'"
> ><steeringcom@green.gpus.org>
> >Subject: RE: [GPUS-PAX] National March GREENS ASKED TO BE A LEADING 
> >ORG
> >Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:04:47 -0500
> >
> >I'm slowly wading thru e mails, the sense of the gpax list is that we 
> >would love to put this out!
> >Echo can you do a very preliminary draft?
> >Peace and Wonder!,
> >joni
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: peace-admin@lists.gp-us.org 
> >[mailto:peace-admin@lists.gp-us.org]
> >On Behalf Of Echo Steiner
> >Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 12:42 PM
> >To: List for GPUS Steering Committee affairs; peace@lists.gp-us.org
> >Subject: [GPUS-PAX] National March GREENS ASKED TO BE A LEADING ORG
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >This is the first of two emails with information about the march in 
> >DC in Sept. Dustin has asked the GP take a roll as a forwarding org. 
> >He said he would like us to have speakers and a Green Party tent as well.
> >I am asking the SC and/or PAX to put forward a proposal to the NC to 
> >endorse asap? What is the quickest time frame? I am writing this 
> >request to both the SC and Pax, with hopes that one or the other of 
> >the groups can move it forward asap. This is a big step. They came to us.
> >They want to see the Greens out front.  I am willing to help write 
> >the
>proposal.
> >
> >Holly, can you give me a time frame of the turnaround to put this up?
> >If it comes from Pax? If it comes from the SC?  SC, can you respond 
> >if you would be willing to move this forward asap? Pax do you want to 
> >submit this? PAX, how soon do you meet next to discuss or what time 
> >line can you move this forward at?
> >
> >Lets build a visible green presence in the peace movement to support 
> >our Green Party Presidential Peace Candidate in 08.
> >
> >Gpax,
> >echo
> >
> >
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