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.

organizer who called the police on us

the program she runs

join the censor club

I was arrested, later criminal charges dropped, by Mayor Muurray , for protesting against the "white men rule"......and all the Worcester big-wigs(including Mc Govern0 were there......

mc Govern had led the way for police brutality, hate crimes, and discimination...ALL ARE FEDERAL ISSUES.......Mc Govern is eveil......

McGovern allowed Indiana K to be grabbed by the neck , by police....for also protesting for human rights!!!

Indiana K is Ksen...sry for the nick name.....

McGovern never codemed or asked DA Conte to quit...when he willfully let a child get canibalized.

beware....your defenders will quit...and call u a retard.

your public defenders will quit....call you a retard, and tell the court your not working with your lawyers......I am not making this up...it is a fact..

Defenders work for the DA...not you....they will try to make you plead guilty...etc..

My advice...RECORD ALL SESSIONS WITH YOUR DEFENDER.

MURRAY HAD ME ARRESTED....mCGOVERN HAD YOU ARRESTED.....ALL FOR SPEEKING-UP FOR HUMAN RIGHTS.

a democrat censoring????I though only pres Bush did that??

Is McGovern a true rascist??

He wants war on Africans.....but wants no war against Muslims, Cubans, Irish, i.e. He only endorese war against blacks. The blackest of blacks, Africans.

T&G reporter told me "protesters are looking to get arrested"

The T&G , and all the state will hush this complaint...The media only BLASTS police...never politicians, RE false arrest.

Readers, who have been following this web-site, now are faced with the truth. THIS CITY OF WORCESTER, AND MEDIA(INCLUDING WO-MAG) ARE ENDORSING CENSORSHIP...AND WILL ALWAYS CENSOR, CENSOR, CENSOR ARRESTS.

MC GOVERN, cITYmANAGER, THE ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL, rEP FRESOLO, AND SEN AUGUSTUS...ALL TOLD ME "WE DONT CARE, EVEN IF THE JUDGE SAID "NON-CRIMINAL"

tHE WEB-MASTER, CENSORED(CUZ OF INSULTS) PREVIOUS COMPLAINTD REGARDING mCGovern....
,,I had very-loudly, and numerous times...accused Mcgovern of being pro-hate crimes, rascism and pro censorship.

I think this arrest prooves all...censorship and rascism.

Rasiscm..because McGovern only wants military onto Blacks....

Protest Racist Warmongering and Zionism TONIGHT @ CLARK U

Protest Racist Warmongering and Zionism TONIGHT @ CLARK U

Tonight at Clark there will be a facist pro war rally that is part of a well financed campaine to invade the Sudan with US, UN or NATO troops. Zionists and US Imperialists want to seize the oil and uranium of the Darfur region and begin the dismemberment of yet another country that is opposed to the US israeli genocide of the Arabs and muslims of Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon. Zionists will cook up any racist lies they can to get what they want which is the total destruction of Sudan and its conversion to a US israeli pig troth.

We need everyones help stopping this war!!

Preparations are almost complete for the invasion and the US air force is busy flying in foriegn fighters to seize the oil fields and help over throw the sudanese government.

We need your help stopping this "regime change" before they kill millions of people and loot another africian country of everything its got then pull the pin and leave it to implode or to die fighting its neigbhors Egypt and chad.

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>>Protest Racist Warmongering and Zionism<<
Clark Campus Events Calendar
Darfur Mini Rally
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
6:00 PM-9:00 PM
Higgins University Center
Tilton Hall/Wetzel Terrace

This event is open to the public. STAND is sponsoring
an event on Nov.7, 6-9pm in Tilton Hall to raise
awareness about the Darfur Genocide. Speakers includeGloria White-Hammond and Scott Schaeffer Duffy. Clark performances include Hip Hop Collabo, Grill Station and Radical Cheerleaders. There will also be a raffle and free food! All proceeds will go to a humanitarian organizations working in Farfur refugee camps.
Cost: Donations Sponsored by: STAND
Suggested Audiences: College, Adult
E-mail: nsully@clarku.edu

BOSTON ANTI ZIONIST ACTION

Boston Anti Zionist Action ......is that anything like...Adolf Hitler Anti Zionist Action?....or maybe KKK Anti Zionist Action? .....or maybe Iranian Anti Zionist Action?... or maybe Hezzbollah Anti Zionist Action...or maybe Hamas Anti Zionist Action.....
I get it ! Even in Boston there are bigots...
Hell Im starting a group called Anti Boston Ignorance..

Good thing you have your freedom of speech....it was because of WARMONGERS you have kept your freedom of speech you keyboard warrior...
One day when your freedom is gone you can thank weak treehuggers like yourself....

SUPPORT OUR TROOPS AMERICA!

signed,
TRUTHWORKS

Have you pple talked to anyone from Darfur?

I have and I don't think these people were paid by conspirators to tell me about the troubles they have lived through.

I would like to commend McGovern for his concern about the Genocide in Darfur. I think these misguided protesters are the ones who really don't care about the "Blacks" in Sudan. How are you OK with the horrific murder, rape, hunger, disease and displacement that is occuring???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Besides stopping intervention, do they have any suggestions about how to make things better for the PEOPLE of Darfur???
McGovern is not asking for US occupation or anything like that. Its just unacceptable that some tragedies we pay attention to and others we ignore. I am very strongly suspicious that racisim and a blinkered sense of self-interest have a lot to do with why the richest countires of the world pay so little attention to genocide when it occurs in Africa.

your opinion does not excuse those who chose to exercise free speech.

Mc Govern and others have no right to use "men with guns" to 'jail" those who stand-up against government.

Those free-speechers' only weapon was words. words should not be met with lost of liberities.

FREE SPEECH

Look at the world.....

Free speech is a privledge, something that is a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all....

In most countries your mouth would get you shot or hung up by your ankles....

Truth.... for those who "stand-up" against this goverment , how truley would they run this country better ?

Truth.....If I ran MY mouth to you, in your face, OUTLOUD, your reply,trust me,would not be love....

Truth....Having your opinion doesnt mean ANYONE else wants to hear it....

Truth......Darfur should have been invaded years ago....the warlords killed, the bands of killers wiped off the face of the earth... Give back the land to the innocent.......

Truth.....MAN HATES MAN......Always been that way...ALWAYS WILL BE.... All your opinion wont change that...... Many of goverments have been "stood-up" against.......Most of those people are dead....Enjoy your life....But you play with fire, expect to get burnt.....

Truth.....Quit your crying.....

Truth.....Run your mouth...take your thumps....

signed,
TruthWorks

ok, arrest extreme

Ok, I agree, it sounds to me like this arrest is extreme here. But I still question the protestors' cause. Our rights to free speach etc. are really important, but with all rights come responsibility. I think we have a responsibility to be receptive to the needs of people who experience genocide.

Taken from a comment on Clark University's livejournal community.

"I was there. They really were not reasonable. They were hanging out in the crowd taking pictures of people for what I can only guess is their blog. Then when people started criticizing their platform they started yelling at people telling people to shut the fuck up and "Clark is a fucking free speech institution." However, the problem was, they were not at a public rally. They were at a private event.

The director of the event calmly explained that police then gave them multiple chances tostop to distributing their material. However, they refused to. Since nobody else's material was allowed (even the congressman's campaign literature) they were asked to leave. They were asked again to leave. They still refused to say a word. They were trying to be as dramatic as possible. The police officer who looked like he wanted nothing to do with it, had to arrest one of them and started walking him out. He then, dramatically tried to start dragging his body. Then he tried to sprint away from the police. All in all, the guy and his comrade appeared to be huge whack jobs."

Authorship unknown, my apologies if it offends the author by reposting. I will take it down if asked.

Got to Love the Truth

I have to repost this....I wasnt there but damn I love it when Im right.

Ms
by Pragmatic Thursday, Dec. 14, 2006 at 11:44 PM

Taken from a comment on Clark University's livejournal community.

"I was there. They really were not reasonable. They were hanging out in the crowd taking pictures of people for what I can only guess is their blog. Then when people started criticizing their platform they started yelling at people telling people to shut the fuck up and "Clark is a fucking free speech institution." However, the problem was, they were not at a public rally. They were at a private event.

The director of the event calmly explained that police then gave them multiple chances tostop to distributing their material. However, they refused to. Since nobody else's material was allowed (even the congressman's campaign literature) they were asked to leave. They were asked again to leave. They still refused to say a word. They were trying to be as dramatic as possible. The police officer who looked like he wanted nothing to do with it, had to arrest one of them and started walking him out. He then, dramatically tried to start dragging his body. Then he tried to sprint away from the police. All in all, the guy and his comrade appeared to be huge whack jobs."

DAMN DONT YOU JUST LOVE THE TRUTH.

now THIS is Truth!

"by pointer Sunday, Dec. 24, 2006 at 3:20 PM"

support peace

The one who advertized the War Rally should get a dope slap.

All rallies should always be for peace . Including those who support our Prez and his strong defense of our freedom.

War Rally. Give me a break.