McGovern speech on Darfur Sudan at Clark U.- One Arrest, three charges : IMC Worcester

Anti War Activist Arrested at Clark University speech on Darfur region of Sudan.

Last night, Monday October 30th at Clark University in Worcester, Congressman James McGovern gave a pro-war speech against Sudan as part of a well financed campaign to invade the largest country in Africa with US, UN or NATO troops.

Two anti-war activists got there early, found seats, and quietly handed out some anti-war flyers before the lecture was due to start. Told that only the organizers were allowed to hand out flyers.

Soon the Clark University Police stormed in and violently arrested Pete L. and forced the other activist to leave the building at the orders of the organizers of the event.

This happened before the lecture was due to start in the middle of a room full of people while McGovern looked on and some outraged onlookers protested that the activists had done nothing wrong.

Pete's arraignment is in the morning (Tues Oct 31) at 8:30 at Worcester District Court, 50 Harvard St. If you can come show support for free speech and freedom from warmongering at the arraignment, we need it.

And please call Clark University and Congressman McGovern to ask why they had someone arrested for being against their war on Sudan.

Demand that they stop agitating for the invasion of Sudan thru the Darfur door and drop the bogus charges against activist Pete L.

This is the flyer below:
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Stop the U.S. and Zionist War Against Sudan
By David Rolde, Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts

The United States has been waging war against Sudan for the past 15 years, and we need to stop it. Just like with Iraq, the U.S. war against Sudan is a war
for oil and a war for Israel. The proposed invasion
of Sudan is based on lies. The lie of accusing the
government of Sudan of “genocide in Darfur” serves the same function as the lie a few years ago accusing the government of Iraq of “possessing weapons of mass destruction”. The U.S. government, and its allies the Israeli and UK governments, are the real world champion purveyors of genocide and possessors of WMDs.

Sudan, the geographically largest country in Africa
and the home of 35 million people, has been devastated by U.S. attacks for the past 15 years. In the early 90s the U.S. government declared Sudan to be a "state sponsor of terrorism" because the government of Sudan does not support Israel. The U.S. government imposed sanctions against Sudan.

The U.S. sanctions and trade boycott escalated in severity several times during the 90s and 00s and damaged the Sudanese economy causing immense human suffering. Throughout the 90s the U.S. government armed and funded the SPLA rebels in the south of Sudan in a war against the Sudanese government, and against rival southern groups, in which millions of persons were killed or displaced. Millions of southern refugees fled from the SPLA and now live in Khartoum, the northern capital. The culmination of U.S. support for war in Sudan was the so-called "Sudan Peace Act", signed by George W Bush in 2002, which allocated one hundred million dollars per year to the SPLA.

One notable episode of the US war against Sudan
happened in 1998 when the U.S. government of Bill
Clinton, with a missile strike, destroyed Sudan's only
pharmaceutical plant, the al-Shifa plant near
Khartoum. This rendered Sudan unable to produce needed human medications to treat endemic diseases such as malaria and also veterinary medicines needed by Sudan's livestock industry which is a major part of the livelihood of the people of Sudan.

In 2004, during the U.S. presidential election
campaign, the U.S. government started leveling false
allegations of "genocide" against the Sudanese
government in regards to the new civil war in Darfur
in the west of Sudan. The U.S. media and
pro-imperialist “human rights” organizations (such as
Human Rights Watch which is controlled by billionaire
George Soros and the Council on Foreign Relations)
falsely portrayed the conflict in Darfur as a
slaughter of Black Africans by a "White Arab" Sudanese government. In reality it was a civil war among many armed groups, some of which were supported by the US and Israel, fighting over limited resources in an impoverished region. Nearly everyone in Sudan is a Black African. And nearly everyone in Darfur is a Black African Arabic-speaking Muslim. The numbers cited for the “genocide” in Darfur were inflated estimates of how many people might die from famine and disease.

This year the propaganda against Sudan in the United
States has intensified again. On April 30, 2006, the
U.S. government in conjunction with U.S. Zionist
groups, staged a large pro-war rally in Washington DC. U.S. congresspersons, as well as members of the Bush administration, spoke at the rally calling for the war against Sudan to be escalated by sending in an invasion force of U.N., NATO or U.S. troops. Nearly
every pro-Israel group in the USA has anti-Sudan
propaganda on the front of their website. In
Massachusetts an example of a Zionist group doing
pro-war activism is the Jewish Community Relations
Council (JCRC) of Greater Boston.

The anti-Sudan rhetoric is no different than the
rhetoric that the U.S. government uses against other
countries that the United States is attacking. One
aim of U.S. attacks against Sudan is to gain or
maintain control over Sudan’s natural resources:
notably petroleum but also uranium, other minerals,
gum arabic, and the Nile River which supplies water to Egypt. China currently has access to oil from Sudan, and the U.S. government wants to cut China off. Destabilizing and impoverishing Sudan serves American and Israeli hegemonic interests to make sure there are no prosperous independent nations in the Middle East and North African regions.

But within the United States the anti-Sudan rhetoric
is useful for more than just getting Americans ready
for more overt war against Sudan. Anti-Arab and
anti-Muslim rhetoric regarding Sudan is part of the
general anti-Arab and anti-Muslim propaganda that is
used to gain U.S. domestic support for the war in
Iraq, continued U.S. support for Israel, and the
so-called “war on terror”.

Zionist groups in the United States have been purveying anti-Arab propaganda regarding Sudan for many years before the Darfur war, making false claims about “slavery” in Sudan. Slave redemption efforts in Sudan have been shown to be a hoax. Divesting from Sudan is a Zionist anti-Arab counter-proposal to the idea of divesting from Israel. Lies about Arabs divert attention from efforts to end Israeli apartheid in Palestine.

On September 1, 2006, the US rammed a resolution
through the UN Security Council calling for tens of
thousands of UN troops, ostensibly "peace-keepers" but really an imperialist invasion force, to be sent to
Darfur to replace the current smaller US-puppet
African Union force. On September 17, Zionists and
other pro-war Americans held an anti-Sudan rally in
Central Park in New York City. The keynote speaker at
the rally was Madeleine Albright, Clinton's Secretary
of State, who is infamous for having admitted that the
Clinton administration and the UN had killed half a
million Iraqi children through the sanctions in the
90s but nevertheless defending the actions against
Iraq as worthwhile. Rally attendees were asked to
wear blue hats to signify their desire to send "blue
helmet" UN troops to invade Sudan. These UN troops
would not be "peace-keepers".

We can see the likely
outcome by looking at Haiti where, in 2004, the US
deposed the legitimate government and then sent in a
UN occupation force which has terrorized the country
and brutalized the Haitian people. When foreign UN
soldiers get to Darfur and can't determine which Black
Arabic-speaking Muslims are the "bad Arabs" and which are the "good Africans", the UN troops will kill
people indiscriminately. The Sudanese people will
rightly resist. The situation will escalate. US
warmongers will call for sending more troops,
including US troops, and bringing the war to Khartoum. It will be a disaster. The US war against Sudan needs to be stopped and reversed now.

Anti-war activists are not working hard enough to stop
the US and Zionist war against Sudan. The current
threats against Sudan are just as serious as the
threats against Iran. Anti-war activists should be
focusing more effort to stop the war against Sudan and
to work against US imperialism in Africa in general -
the current war against Sudan is just one
manifestation of centuries of European colonialism and neo-colonialism in Sudan and Africa. The situation for
the people of Sudan will improve once foreign
intervention in Sudan stops.

McGovern speech on Darfur Sudan at Clark U.- One Arrest, three charges

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