Spreading human rights and democracy...or empire?
XXI Century: war, peace and patriotism
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David Cline, a Vietnam veteran and president of Veterans for Peace, relates his personal story and gives us a first-hand account of what war really looks like. The historian Michael Foley looks at the inequities of the draft during the Vietnam war, which produced the notorious 'chicken-hawks' who spend their time these days championing the 'war on terror' as a patriotic duty but who avoided military service when it was their turn to serve. Vietnam veterans tell us about their difficult return to 'the world'. We look at the bloated military budget, and the effect it has on funds desperately needed by cities across the country.
And just who is the threat to peace? Nelson Mandela and a Hiroshima survivor remind us that only one country has actually used nuclear weapons.
Amongst those featured are Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Angela Davis, Susan Sarandon, Desmond Tutu, Jessica Lange, Tim Robbins, Ossie Davis, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Patti Smith.
'An exceptionally well done panorama of significant political events surrounding September 11th, 2001 and the American Empire.' Willliam Blum
'Highly revealing! A documentary which celebrates the peace movement while fueling your rage to danger levels.' Red Pepper
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Main credits
Zamparini, Gabriele (film director)
Zamparini, Gabriele (film producer)
Zamparini, Gabriele (screenwriter)
Zamparini, Gabriele (director of photography)
Meccoli, Lorenzo (film producer)
Meccoli, Lorenzo (screenwriter)
Meccoli, Lorenzo (director of photography)
Meccoli, Lorenzo (editor of moving image work)
Chomsky, Noam (on-screen participant)
Ratner, Michael (on-screen participant)
Cagan, Lesie (on-screen participant)
Zinn, Howard (on-screen participant)
Foley, Michael (on-screen participant)
Palast, Greg (on-screen participant)
Daniels, Edward (on-screen participant)
Cline, David (on-screen participant)
Sharpton, Al (on-screen participant)
Scott, Dread (on-screen participant)
Mandela, Nelson (on-screen participant)
Davis, Angela Y (on-screen participant)
Sarandon, Susan (on-screen participant)
Tutu, Desmond (on-screen participant)
Lange, Jessica (on-screen participant)
Davis, Ossie (on-screen participant)
Jackson, Jessie (on-screen participant)
Smith, Patti (on-screen participant)
Other credits
Editor, Lorenzo Meccoli [and 5 others]; camera, lighting, and sound, Lorenzo Meccoli, Gabriele Zamparini.
Distributor subjects
American Democracy; American Studies; Anthropology; Citizenship; Civil Liberties; Conflict Resolution; Ethics; Foreign Policy, US; History; Human Rights; Humanities; International Studies; Iraq; Social Justice; Sociology; War and PeaceKeywords
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Tonight I have a message for the
men and women who will keep
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the peace members of the
American armed forces.
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Many of you are assembling
in or near the middle east.
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Some crucial hours may lay
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ahead in those hours the success
of our cause will depend on you.
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Your training has prepared you.
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Your honour will guide you.
You believe in America.
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America believes in you
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War is not the answer.
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That is not a rational way to
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react because I\'m an Army officer and I
don\'t think that was often Hamas. No war.
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War is when humans trapezoid
discerned and barbarism as well.
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We go back to barbarism.
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And we\'d just in any end war is man.
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And today it\'s also woman but as man going
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either from two different sides
is trying to kill each other.
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In a time I was in Vietnam I
was a combat infant dream and
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arrival man and sometimes
have me be a machine gunner.
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And in the time I was in Vietnam
I was wounded I got shot.
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And when I got shot my level lung
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collapsed and I was reported dead
but I was centered a hospital.
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45 days later I was released from
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the hospital until he\'s after
there was sand bear gotten.
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In a bush we got to go beg on flight.
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I was wounded again as slaves to those
pieces shrapnel hit my shoulder That
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was a minor wound and then a
third Modena was seven bag out
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and available and I got shadow
third delegates Schadt and
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right knee and December 20th 1967
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by two in the morning we were overrun by
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North Vietnamese regulars near
the Cambodian border and hair.
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And I was wounded there
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And so I have three purple hearts for
three wounds received in combat.
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I have a Bronze Star for bravery
combat infantry men badge.
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And I\'m disabled from my warns.
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There hasn\'t been a war and
American soils or most people in
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America don\'t know what war is
really about for people that are in
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the military and fight in
wars they are permanently
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changed sometimes matter but oftentimes
shorter worst by war people are wounded.
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Physically. People are killed people are
wounded mentally emotionally psychologically.
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People are contaminated
with military toxins.
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In Vietnam they had where
they used Agent Orange.
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They sprayed Agent Orange
over by 1 fifth of
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South Vietnam to they were killing
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them day idea was they\'re going to
kill the Bush\'s and killed up front.
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That crops are the Viet Cong Guo and good
no food and they had no place to hide.
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It didn\'t have any effect on that.
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But what it did was it killed a lot of
the farmland and kill a jungle and a
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contaminated and a lot of people
including large numbers of American Gls.
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Some people say over a
quarter million Gis dead
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time many thousands of veterans
die because what we were
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getting was Kansas a lot
of people who are getting
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kansas various chloro soft
tissue sarcoma leukemias
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some people at birth defect did children.
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A lot of people develop a condition called
floor agony which was a permanent skin rash.
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So for people who serve in war war is hell.
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Now in America and in a
lot of the West today
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there\'s been these movies
as sorted term war into
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games you know and that\'s part
of the problem with our culture
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today is war and killing has been
turned into an entertainment.
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The real deal is not languages show you.
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The real deal is like where you
damaged for Life Ed for war.
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Donald Rumsfeld may commas regional
and talking about the draft when
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Charles wrangle asean three
introduced a draft and Rumsfeld said
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the draft was the people that got
sucked in when they couldn\'t
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get out and they were
of no use you know like
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18 thousand Americans died in
Vietnam were draftees out of
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the fifty eight thousand eighteen
thousand of them were draftees.
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He says there are no use to me his Vietnam.
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Veteran ever brothers we\'d lost you
know so I hear a guy say Annette.
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He gave me sick to draft
had been in place since
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really not long after the Second World
War in 1947 they brought it back.
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And because there were so many people
who are draft age during that period.
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They came up with this
system of difference that
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allowed people out of the
draft in various ways
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And these were supposed to be in activities
that were in the nation\'s interests.
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So you can get a draft
deferment if you were going to
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college or if you worked for
a company that was doing
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something supposedly in
the nation\'s interests in
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all the famous politicians today who
managed to escape it most of them did it.
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All of them I guess did it
legally well we go them
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children hogs you know when they could
have gone to Floyd in their youth
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they avoided it now that they\'re run
charged they\'re going to send another B
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was used to avoid dare to Hawks Madou
were to chickens when it was their turn
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So we go on children or
she got George Bush.
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He was in integers Air National Guard.
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Now you gotta remember during
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the Vietnam era the Air
National Guard and tags
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is there was a place to
get out of the draft.
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It was a way to dodge the drift if
you had the money into connections.
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So you because that was the name of the game
then was if you had the money you get out.
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If you didn\'t you get sent to
the war and push his case.
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He leapfrogged over a 100 thousand people
to get into the Texas National Guard.
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And even once he was international
guard was awol for a month
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was you know he didn\'t take his
duties and that seriously either.
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And that\'s what that was a
way to get out of serving.
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And he wasn\'t serious about it
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It makes you sad to think this man
is President and he couldn\'t take
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anything seriously and is-you he
thought we should fight in Vietnam.
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See Bill Clinton didn\'t want to go to Vietnam
because he didn\'t believe in the war.
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That\'s legitimate. That\'s ideological but Bush
bleed at other guys should go to the war.
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But he was he was just you know
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your typical spineless
yellow godless coward
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who was afraid of bullets.
And I don\'t blame him.
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I don\'t blame him but it\'s it\'s
the cowards who are always
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ready to send other guys to war and his
entire cabinet is filled with chicken hawks.
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The draft system therefore was
incredibly unfair because
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it basically guaranteed that middle
and upper-class people young men
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We\'re more likely to escape
the draft while working
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class poor and minority men were more likely
to be drafted and sent into the military
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There were illegal ways to get
out of the draft two which
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included leaving the country
we don\'t know how many
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exactly left but it\'s somewhere
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between 3050 thousand went to
Canada or Mexico or somewhere else.
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And then there became in 1967
and national movement of
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people who openly defied the draft
a movement of civil disobedience
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in which they would get together in
cities around the country and have
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draft card turn ends
where they would turn in
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their draft card which
that alone was a crime.
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You had to have your draft
card on you at all times
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So if you turned it in and sent it to
the Justice Department in Washington.
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You are breaking the law.
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And the idea was that if they
had enough people do this they
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could undermine the way that draft
worked and hopefully undermine the war.
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That didn\'t really work out the way they\'d
hoped but it did have the effect of finally
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making the Johnson administration and
pay attention to the anti-war movement
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I have to say as a as a disabled
American combat virgin I get
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offended when I hear that there
were unpatriotic today those who
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are fighting against what George
Bush and his crew are doing are
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patriots for them to call us unpatriotic
is make the word patriotism.
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Devoid of meaning patriotism
is not getting in line
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beyond the president saluting the
President die inverted credibility as
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a president nor is it just
putting up a flag waving net in
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mindless nationalism patriotism is
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a love of your country and it\'s
a love of the world today.
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And people identify with the flag.
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I mean the after 9-11
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The flag to showed up every
place certainly yearly York.
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You couldn\'t walk two steps that seeing
an American flag in America the flag
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the piece of cloth the emblem
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represents something that a does not
represent in many other countries.
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In America the flag is the
it\'s the civic deity.
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My most well-known work is a work
called what\'s the proper way to display
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US flag which I made in
1988 and in 1989 became
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the center of national
controversy over its use of
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the American flag the work had a
photomontage on the wall which
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consisted of texts that said what\'s the
proper way to display us flying on a
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below that we\'re South Korean
students burning us flags.
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Holding signs saying yankee
go home son of a bitch.
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And below that we\'re flag draped coffins coming
home and a troop transport from Vietnam.
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Below that on the wall
was a shelf that held
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books that people could write
responses to the question.
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What\'s the proper way to display
a US flag and below that was
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a flag that people had the option
of standing on if they wanted to.
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There were laws passed at the
city state and federal level
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which ended up outlawing the work.
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The US Senate voted unanimously to
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condemn the work as they pass the
legislation to protect the flag so that
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people couldn\'t so-called desecrate
the US flag and the President of
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the United States at the time George
Bush the first publicly denounced me
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as well but there was
tremendous amount of support
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for the work if you went into the
housing projects or the ghettos and
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barrios or just when it waited on line for
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where people would come to see the
work where they\'d wait for an hour.
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And there was a lot of
people who thought that
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the work was speaking at least to them.
If not for them.
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There was a very interesting common from
a German woman who said if if Germans
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carried on about the flag the way
that people in the US do they\'d
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be called fascists again and she
thought that they\'d be right.
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There was a person who was
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a poor black woman who wrote that
the police had shot her brother.
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And then they kicked over his body to make
sure the quote unquote nigger was dead.
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And that that cop War
flag patch on his arm as
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many Copts do or most cops and
most police departments do.
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And so that\'s how it
kind of impacts people.
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I think most directly there were a lot
of people who know the history of
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this country and its present-day reality
from sort of the the genocide of
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native peoples to the enslavement
of Africans to the rulings on
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the Dred Scott original Supreme Court case
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in 1853 where the Supreme
Court ruled that there are
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no rights that a black person has
that a white man is bound to
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respect and a court that
flew the flag on it to
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the flag that was on the bomb that
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destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki and
killed them many civilians there.
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This flag has meant nothing
but murder and plunder
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for the vast majority of
people in the world and
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and a lot of people wouldn\'t give him
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the opportunity to debate this question
had very insightful comments about it.
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I always say that veterans are treated
like a condom use once and throw away.
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Because you know we have a k1 is
wheezing if they tell you to go there
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is something you should
know they wave the flag
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when you attack when you come
home they turn their back.
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I came back in hours and hours in fatigues.
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And I came off the plane and
you know I felt a good feeling
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Welcome back as a hero.
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You know the thing I really wanna wasn\'t
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a nice piece of American apple
pie and a glass of milk.
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And so I\'ll go into the
base cafeteria and I got me
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a nice glass is tall glass milk piece
of apple pie and I was eating.
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And there was this black guy came
along it was clean work and on a base
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works in the base cafeteria was clean up
taken trays and dishes off and put him.
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And he said to me he came over to my table.
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And he said oh you guys just he just
came back from you know yeah right.
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And so you know I think I\'m
gonna really get some crazy
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well fixed Jack and fatigue shirt.
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And he says you on him foos
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there wasn\'t a welcome.
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And the majority of the time you kept it to
yourself or tell you what honestly happened.
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When I came back I was so
disillusioned I didn\'t have any.
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I didn\'t feel very good about it because
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most people weren\'t considerate enough to
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have and understand and know
the position that we as
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the soldiers were putting in as
ponds to fight something that we
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were led to believe for an
altruistic purpose in there wasn\'t.
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And so I gave away all of my all of
my military stuff among you know
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the the the jungle fatigues and
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the only thing I care was
boots because they were
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very good good land area
and I\'ll be honest.
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The boots who were very fit and I kept
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the jungle boots and amp
gave away everything else.
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I didn\'t want to know you know the only
reason that I wanted to know was to
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get an education get some benefits
in and go on with my life.
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War veterans come home suffering
from a lot of bad memories
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bad dreams nightmares in ability to
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react with other people normally because they
have a lot of feelings of anger and guilt.
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And a lot of people will begin to
self-medicate drugs but mainly
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although you have trouble sleeping
or Nigeria or erratic sleep pattern.
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And you always looking for some kind of
a crutch to get you through you know.
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And you know it\'s it\'s it\'s a mind
boggling thing because you always say yes
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I\'ll never be the same personnel was
that I was before I ever got into this.
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And the God\'s honest truth
I always sits must.
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I wished that I could be myself
than I was before I ever
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went into the military in
reality is in ankle happen.
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We shouldn\'t been used as escape group
because it wasn\'t our decision to make.
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And we didn\'t form it policy.
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We didn\'t implement policy.
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And we certainly weren\'t in a
position to do evening and barrier.
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You know most of us came from impoverished
backgrounds and things of that nature.
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If most of us probably could again
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better grip or when he was
coming up out of school and
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honest appraisal and honest
teaching from out for my teachers.
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I think we\'ve been a
little more open-minded a
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receptive to the different
information that was coming.
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It wasn\'t done was done.
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We was greatly disadvantaged you know they\'re
more interested in throwing their money
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into building new weapons
and make new bonds and
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going after somebody else because this is the
direction we\'re getting from mitochondria
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Then periodically they\'ll come to you later
on a badge and a bag and so you served
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your country now come out here and March for
the next generation to go off and fight.
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So it Azure we\'re above.
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We changed that in Vietnam we came back.
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We said that the Vietnam
veterans against the war.
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We said no you\'re not going to just keep
using one generation of veterans ascend of
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another generation desert
started as all virgins for
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beige movement is that it is a veterans
who have been there and done that.
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Now we\'re saying we got to stab dead.
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I coordinate a program called Roots which
stands for revolution Out of truth and struggle
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And routes is a program
that focuses on issues of
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militarism as it impacts those most
untar under siege of militarism.
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So when we talk about militarism and
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specifically military recruitment
which communities are being impacted.
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Well usually it\'s an
economic issue and it\'s also
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heavily saturated with issues of
race and ethnicity as well so that
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people who are most directly
targeted our people from
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Black Latino and poor Asian as well
as Native American communities.
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So these are the communities that
we\'re most concerned with as
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well and doing our counter
military recruitment work.
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So we have a campaign currently against
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the junior Reserve Officer Training Corps
which is a military programme targeting
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So-called inner cities areas where
which are dilapidated which
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are plagued with all
kinds of drugs and guns.
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And our people in those communities
often resort to the military or
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military institutions as a
way out and so che ROTC uses
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valuable school funds to get young
people of color into the military and
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each year 40% of the military recruits the
overall military recruits comes out of jiao.
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Tc the junior Reserve
Officer Training Corps
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Yeah
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Our military budget which is now almost
$400 billion a year just the increase
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that they got after
September 11th of close to
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$50 billion was bigger than the entire
military budget of any other country in
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the world we\'re spending more apparently
than the next 25 or 26 countries combined.
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But because Bush is also pushing
large tax cuts because he\'s also
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increasing the homeland security budget
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and much that money goes
to the same companies for
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security and military kinds of items because
they\'ve had big supplemental requests to pay
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for the war in Afghanistan the war in Iraq
which could cost several $100 billion
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There\'s not much left in the US
budget for domestic needs more
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than $0.50 on the dollar is
already going to the military.
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And that is going to increase
once we have the tax cuts.
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Once we pay for these wars Bush\'s budget
deficits are now pushing $400 billion a year.
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The largest in the history of our country.
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There are going to spend billions of
dollars on this war and occupation.
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How many we don\'t even know at a
time when the closing senior citizen
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centers right-hand Brooklyn
towing senior people
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out they can\'t even add them
meal Meal on real or whatever.
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And they\'re going to raise it to wish to
make toonie and put two students out.
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And all the services for the
homeless have been shut
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down and all they do and when the
homeless house arresting them.
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At the same time all of this
money is being wasted on mirth.
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Yeah this is a time that George Bush has
done its job and not what they ought to
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feel awaken to
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the 40 minutes not affordable housing.
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Deficits in the states and the cities
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Right now there\'s a tremendous
opposition to the war.
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There\'s a rising tide.
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It\'s in small communities.
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It\'s in big communities. It\'s in churches.
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Hospitals it\'s in workplaces
it\'s everywhere now.
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And one part of that aspect is to get
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city councils in cities
throughout the United States
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to pass resolutions opposed to the war.
00:23:40.325 --> 00:23:42.679
And you might say well what do they
have to do with foreign policy of
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the United States well those city councils
have to meet the budgets for their cities.
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You are suffering from a fiscal
crisis of over $3 billion of budget
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We\'d need our police with
near out for hospitals.
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We need our senior centers.
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We need our schools.
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New York City has joined or a 140 over
such series by passing a resolution 549 a.
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And thus we 8 million
New Yorkers have joined
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many many other Americans in
saying that we want peace not war
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Push push.
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This country has a long history
especially since World War Two
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constantly relying on military militarism
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and its military strength
to quote solve problems.
00:25:05.330 --> 00:25:07.444
Now we know that it doesn\'t
really solve the problems.
00:25:07.445 --> 00:25:09.499
It just adds another layer of problems.
00:25:09.500 --> 00:25:12.709
It may suppress a set of problems or
00:25:12.710 --> 00:25:16.489
a group of people but it doesn\'t really deal
with the fundamental reasons why people
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around the world may be unhappy
with us are the way we\'re
00:25:19.430 --> 00:25:22.819
interacting with their countries
and over and over again
00:25:22.820 --> 00:25:29.869
and a country has relied on on force
from Vietnam to ergon Ada and Panama.
00:25:29.870 --> 00:25:37.009
Nicaragua we didn\'t send our troops are
we funded that the contras and all over
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the world the US really has developed to to
be the military superpower in the world.
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I think sort of a simple way of
saying it is that it\'s good for
00:25:49.400 --> 00:25:55.174
business and had their you know it\'s sort
of ironic that it was Dwight D Eisenhower.
00:25:55.175 --> 00:25:58.159
President of this country
indeed are general but in
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this country who came up with the
phrase the military industrial complex.
00:26:02.435 --> 00:26:06.589
Every time there is a war
there is a great investment
00:26:06.590 --> 00:26:10.969
or even greater investment
in military operations.
00:26:10.970 --> 00:26:12.499
Why are they using Iraq
00:26:12.500 --> 00:26:16.519
A big cash machine to give
contracts to companies tied to
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President Bush or then going
to recycle some of that money
00:26:19.220 --> 00:26:22.084
and give it to his re-election
he\'s running this government.
00:26:22.085 --> 00:26:24.064
The way it\'s too hard to rent Indonesia.
00:26:24.065 --> 00:26:26.029
You know it\'s it\'s crony capitalism.
00:26:26.030 --> 00:26:27.679
It\'s taking care of his friends.
00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:30.049
It\'s actually worse than
what Eisenhower warned
00:26:30.050 --> 00:26:32.449
about the military industrial
complex because it\'s
00:26:32.450 --> 00:26:37.669
basically it\'s almost like we have this
little military junta in Washington.
00:26:37.670 --> 00:26:39.529
That\'s pretending we have a democracy.
00:26:39.530 --> 00:26:42.079
But when it comes to any important
decision that\'s made by
00:26:42.080 --> 00:26:45.004
the Pentagon it\'s made by
the security officials.
00:26:45.005 --> 00:26:47.089
There preempting our civil liberties.
00:26:47.090 --> 00:26:49.459
There elbowing the State
Department out of the way.
00:26:49.460 --> 00:26:51.214
They\'re insulting our allies
00:26:51.215 --> 00:26:53.824
This is not what democracy
is supposed to be about.
00:26:53.825 --> 00:26:55.969
And so I think that\'s really the threat.
00:26:55.970 --> 00:26:57.814
It\'s it\'s kind of it\'s not just the money.
00:26:57.815 --> 00:27:00.814
It\'s the militarization of
American culture and politics.
00:27:00.815 --> 00:27:03.919
Thankfully I think people
are not gonna sit still for
00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:10.969
that wartime government is that can
run parallel with their peers.
00:27:10.970 --> 00:27:14.504
If it were has no salt.
00:27:14.505 --> 00:27:17.649
Will admit worker.
00:27:17.650 --> 00:27:25.050
Who\'s now laughter has
low end tool Holocaust.
00:27:25.480 --> 00:27:28.149
And I\'m happier peptide
00:27:28.150 --> 00:27:33.374
away especially the girls go through
notice that it doesn\'t matter.
00:27:33.375 --> 00:27:38.120
Standing hosts.
00:28:21.810 --> 00:28:29.810
Come in and see our demonstration.
00:29:08.650 --> 00:29:16.650
My pleasure now to bring your one
loves choices children watch this
00:29:17.420 --> 00:29:21.270
should go to.
00:29:36.820 --> 00:29:39.270
O
00:30:00.520 --> 00:30:08.520
President bush listen to other people.
00:30:15.400 --> 00:30:19.550
Is the voice of an ad
00:30:22.280 --> 00:30:30.280
Hey listen through advise other
people saying give peace a chance.
00:30:32.975 --> 00:30:40.975
If you use a chance and that\'s why
they\'ve been here in the right.
00:30:43.285 --> 00:30:44.680
Oh.
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My God bless
00:30:58.820 --> 00:31:05.524
America and may God continue to bless
the United States of America. Tonight
00:31:05.525 --> 00:31:08.529
And may God continue to bless America.
00:31:08.530 --> 00:31:13.069
May god bless our country
and all who defender.
00:31:13.070 --> 00:31:16.189
The idea that God take sides.
00:31:16.190 --> 00:31:19.200
I is absurd.
00:31:19.210 --> 00:31:23.944
I think if God takes side that\'s
the side of the suffering.
00:31:23.945 --> 00:31:29.884
And yesterday for example here in New
York we had a rally that was led by
00:31:29.885 --> 00:31:34.579
interfaith religious leaders forum
and it was a wonderful example
00:31:34.580 --> 00:31:40.410
of people coming together from Judaism from
Islam from Christianity from Buddhism.
00:32:00.100 --> 00:32:03.574
You can\'t talk about anything of justice.
00:32:03.575 --> 00:32:06.469
Having being involved in a war.
00:32:06.470 --> 00:32:09.499
There is nothing of justice
involved with war.
00:32:09.500 --> 00:32:11.809
A war of aggression of this kind cannot be
00:32:11.810 --> 00:32:15.180
justified according to
any religious principle.
00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:27.380
Now
00:32:51.310 --> 00:32:54.619
April fourth 1967
00:32:54.620 --> 00:32:58.159
Martin Luther King Junior stood
here and there\'s historic
00:32:58.160 --> 00:33:05.700
fulfilled and said why he had to
oppose the war in Vietnam. Today
00:33:08.230 --> 00:33:12.004
We on the brink of going to war.
00:33:12.005 --> 00:33:18.514
And the reality is you do
not stop at some clips.
00:33:18.515 --> 00:33:21.634
Or he said My father.
00:33:21.635 --> 00:33:28.159
That. this is austenite
and went out darkness.
00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:36.160
He said that nonviolence hence
now Bauhaus about Occam\'s there.
00:33:36.380 --> 00:33:42.454
What made America right or the ride
that bike ride remarks available.
00:33:42.455 --> 00:33:49.824
Ebola I very similar starting
from below I saw a sort of harsh.
00:33:49.825 --> 00:33:54.829
We\'re doing poorly and boast
known that break your spirit.
00:33:54.830 --> 00:34:02.830
Rolemapping I\'m just kind of show
you the same preferences aside.
00:34:04.865 --> 00:34:08.600
There\'s no God is voice over.
00:34:15.730 --> 00:34:20.970
Aristotle agrees.
00:34:35.270 --> 00:34:37.600
Because
00:34:46.510 --> 00:34:47.869
whatever
00:34:47.870 --> 00:34:50.509
money Revlon
00:34:50.510 --> 00:34:55.009
limit gurney rather map
00:34:55.010 --> 00:35:01.340
we love you and miss you.
00:35:01.450 --> 00:35:08.554
Your freely given blood
fertilizes the tree of freedom.
00:35:08.555 --> 00:35:14.853
Your precious body is ripped
apart by the assassin\'s bullet
00:35:14.854 --> 00:35:21.784
For the same zone in ofs correct
well we shall Netflix the kitsch.
00:35:21.785 --> 00:35:27.210
We shall build on your
shoulder but keep alive John.
00:35:47.770 --> 00:35:51.844
That\'s a rough a month.
00:35:51.845 --> 00:35:57.484
Visionary dream of a multiracial democracy.
00:35:57.485 --> 00:36:00.814
Grand Tied no love.
00:36:00.815 --> 00:36:04.534
Drum major for justice.
00:36:04.535 --> 00:36:12.499
Zhao love their prophetic black church
who loved Joe weight Gruber darkness.
00:36:12.500 --> 00:36:16.054
We shall never forget.
00:36:16.055 --> 00:36:24.055
Never ever forget the key.
00:36:26.315 --> 00:36:29.264
Keep those days.
00:36:29.265 --> 00:36:37.265
Rather than just leave this clearing gears
00:36:41.680 --> 00:36:46.264
Well this this has been a remarkable
peace movement in the United States.
00:36:46.265 --> 00:36:48.409
The movement against the war in Vietnam was
00:36:48.410 --> 00:36:51.019
the greatest peace movement we
ever had in the United States.
00:36:51.020 --> 00:36:55.159
We never had a peace movement in the United
States that actually had an effect on
00:36:55.160 --> 00:37:01.399
the policymakers that helped to stop a war
but that\'s what happened during the dam.
00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:05.674
What has happened now
is even more surprising
00:37:05.675 --> 00:37:11.104
because it took several years for the peace
movement to develop during the Vietnam War.
00:37:11.105 --> 00:37:17.764
You know. 19651966 a
very small piece moment.
00:37:17.765 --> 00:37:21.244
196768 it began to grow.
00:37:21.245 --> 00:37:26.539
Here we have had a peace
movement growing very very fast.
00:37:26.540 --> 00:37:31.699
Even before the war begins
that has never happened before
00:37:31.700 --> 00:37:37.999
peace activity peace protests
vigils teachings demonstrations.
00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:42.274
We\'ve never had that happen in
00:37:42.275 --> 00:37:47.629
very small towns around the United States.
But that\'s what\'s happening.
00:37:47.630 --> 00:37:54.929
Now. We have a little towns
in Missoula Montana.
00:37:54.930 --> 00:38:00.229
I\'m probably a lot of people don\'t
even know where Montana is.
00:38:00.230 --> 00:38:01.784
Because Montana is a
00:38:01.785 --> 00:38:06.904
a state that has very few people
and it\'s towns are very small.
00:38:06.905 --> 00:38:09.409
But there have been
demonstrations in little towns
00:38:09.410 --> 00:38:11.839
in Montana a little towns
all over the country.
00:38:11.840 --> 00:38:13.864
This has never happened before.
00:38:13.865 --> 00:38:20.959
And we\'ve never had such
a sign of support for
00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:28.960
the anti-war movement in the arts in the
theater in the movies in the music world.
00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:35.284
During the Vietnam War
Jane Fonda became famous.
00:38:35.285 --> 00:38:40.024
Jane Fonda was the symbol
of artistic resistance.
00:38:40.025 --> 00:38:43.924
But behind Jane Fonda there wasn\'t a lot of
00:38:43.925 --> 00:38:46.939
anti-war activity. And now hundreds of
00:38:46.940 --> 00:38:50.539
Hollywood stars have signed
petitions against the war.
00:38:50.540 --> 00:38:55.009
Rock musicians have taken out
full-page ads in The New York Times
00:38:55.010 --> 00:38:59.854
against the war is quite
unusual quite different.
00:38:59.855 --> 00:39:05.329
So we have this unusual juxtaposition.
00:39:05.330 --> 00:39:10.264
And that is on the one hand
we have an administration
00:39:10.265 --> 00:39:15.904
which seems to be totally
determined to go to war.
00:39:15.905 --> 00:39:21.150
More so than at any other
point in American history.
00:39:21.580 --> 00:39:26.569
Has there been such
absolutely fixation on war
00:39:26.570 --> 00:39:33.019
At the same time we have the quickest
growth at antiwar movement that
00:39:33.020 --> 00:39:35.359
we\'ve ever had in American history even
00:39:35.360 --> 00:39:39.514
The New York Times which Christ
to play this kinda thing down.
00:39:39.515 --> 00:39:45.139
They had a front-page story if it said there
are now two superpowers on the planet.
00:39:45.140 --> 00:39:48.589
The United States and world public opinion.
00:39:48.590 --> 00:39:51.829
Now of course when they say
the United States they mean
00:39:51.830 --> 00:39:55.144
the US government and not the population.
00:39:55.145 --> 00:39:59.614
So the correct statement is there
are two superpowers on the planet.
00:39:59.615 --> 00:40:03.094
One Washington which has all the guns.
00:40:03.095 --> 00:40:08.550
And one world public opinion including
quite a lot of the United States
00:40:08.830 --> 00:40:13.924
Tonight I want to take a few minutes
to discuss a grave threat to peace.
00:40:13.925 --> 00:40:17.164
The threat from araC stands alone.
00:40:17.165 --> 00:40:23.704
Because it gathers the most serious
dangers of our age. In one place.
00:40:23.705 --> 00:40:28.714
It possesses and produces
chemical and biological weapons.
00:40:28.715 --> 00:40:32.010
It is seeking nuclear weapons.
00:40:32.350 --> 00:40:35.134
The threat to peace poster.
00:40:35.135 --> 00:40:38.854
We did it in a centerfold of
one of our issues originally.
00:40:38.855 --> 00:40:42.649
We started be interesting
to see what America has in
00:40:42.650 --> 00:40:46.684
regards to how many war criminals
we had how many you know
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Well weapons we have how many Nicholas
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cite anything that regards to how
we terrorize the rest of the world.
00:40:55.570 --> 00:41:03.570
Nations as you first send
over who owns the nu
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has to design the store
00:41:12.350 --> 00:41:20.350
via all the bombs and guns
to defend whole limb.
00:41:21.820 --> 00:41:27.780
There are children\'s again.
00:41:28.870 --> 00:41:34.680
There are mothers fathers brothers.
00:41:35.740 --> 00:41:43.740
They\'re only palms and corruption through
00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:53.880
mass destruction and prove that you
00:41:54.210 --> 00:41:58.724
go and prove to
00:41:58.725 --> 00:42:05.730
me America your booze
00:42:10.240 --> 00:42:15.910
Who pays for them liberties Xue De.
00:42:31.080 --> 00:42:38.044
Zui for freedom or our
comfort and convenience.
00:42:38.045 --> 00:42:46.045
Is it a profit forbid business we
pledge our legions. Are we prisoner
00:42:52.690 --> 00:42:57.870
So our hearts grown hard and cool.
00:42:58.440 --> 00:43:06.440
And America America.
00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:14.779
Over the last decade as the number of
00:43:14.780 --> 00:43:19.939
armed conflicts has increased to around
the world amnesties work has taken place
00:43:19.940 --> 00:43:24.589
increasingly in the context of armed
conflict because this is a time when
00:43:24.590 --> 00:43:26.959
human rights violations increasingly are
00:43:26.960 --> 00:43:30.694
being committed or violations
of the laws of war.
00:43:30.695 --> 00:43:35.674
So the world contexts has taken
amnesty into this situation. And so
00:43:35.675 --> 00:43:39.964
We have begun now to monitor
how wars are conducted.
00:43:39.965 --> 00:43:41.719
Increasingly we\'ve done it in
00:43:41.720 --> 00:43:48.349
the former Yugoslavia during the
Kosovo war and were very critical of
00:43:48.350 --> 00:43:52.759
certain types of behavior
in terms of how the war was
00:43:52.760 --> 00:43:56.929
conducted the flying of planes
at high altitudes where
00:43:56.930 --> 00:43:59.869
the planes weren\'t able to the
pilots not able to distinguish
00:43:59.870 --> 00:44:06.109
between soldiers and civilians
you know war is no longer.
00:44:06.110 --> 00:44:08.419
Two armies.
00:44:08.420 --> 00:44:13.159
Fighting it out from trench
to trench in modern warfare.
00:44:13.160 --> 00:44:18.334
Unfortunately 90% of the
casualties are civilians
00:44:18.335 --> 00:44:24.454
We\'ve seen that we see that and civil wars
but we also see an international wars.
00:44:24.455 --> 00:44:32.455
So any war is going to have a devastating
impact on on civilian populations.
00:45:24.580 --> 00:45:27.409
Our goal is peace.
00:45:27.410 --> 00:45:34.729
Foundation for our friends and allies
for the people of the Middle East
00:45:34.730 --> 00:45:42.274
if there was a company that
has a processor doesn\'t work
00:45:42.275 --> 00:45:48.120
it is the human distances
another lone pair.
00:45:48.280 --> 00:45:54.319
Third lone pair for the NND for 57 years.
00:45:54.320 --> 00:46:02.320
I hope one day decided
00:46:03.710 --> 00:46:11.710
that the upper ball didn\'t
he or she had Nagasaki was
00:46:13.130 --> 00:46:21.130
filled from the effects of those
brought against its argues
00:46:24.010 --> 00:46:32.010
So this is a parallel type
of earth is opposed to.
00:46:34.310 --> 00:46:36.654
This is work as global hunger glue.
00:46:36.655 --> 00:46:44.655
On August sixth 1945 I was 13 years
old grade eight student at 815.
00:46:47.090 --> 00:46:50.179
I saw outside the window.
00:46:50.180 --> 00:46:55.924
The bluish white flesh
like magnesium flare.
00:46:55.925 --> 00:47:00.439
I remember the sensation
of floating in the air.
00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:07.184
As IID gained consciousness
in total darkness and silence
00:47:07.185 --> 00:47:14.484
I realized I was pinned in
ruins the collapsed building.
00:47:14.485 --> 00:47:19.089
By the time I came out of the
building it was on fire that meant
00:47:19.090 --> 00:47:26.360
about 30 of my classmates who are in the
same room were burned to death alive.
00:47:26.730 --> 00:47:29.274
I turned around.
00:47:29.275 --> 00:47:36.669
And so the outside world although
it was morning it looked like
00:47:36.670 --> 00:47:44.670
Twilight because of the dust smoke and
particle in the air people at a distance.
00:47:45.970 --> 00:47:49.379
So the rising mushroom cloud
00:47:49.380 --> 00:47:57.019
And I did not see the cloud
because I wasn\'t in it.
00:47:57.020 --> 00:48:03.199
I did not hear just that deadly silence.
00:48:03.200 --> 00:48:09.350
Only by the growth of the engine.
00:49:13.630 --> 00:49:16.050
Yes
00:50:39.150 --> 00:50:47.150
Rather mark rather than America rather map.
00:50:47.780 --> 00:50:52.894
We love you and miss you
00:50:52.895 --> 00:51:00.895
but your freely given blurred
fertilizes the tree of freedom.
00:51:01.325 --> 00:51:05.419
Your precious bar is ripped apart by
00:51:05.420 --> 00:51:11.719
the assassin\'s bullet for
saves us again ofs rational.
00:51:11.720 --> 00:51:14.569
Now the catch.
00:51:14.570 --> 00:51:20.520
We shall build on your shoulder
but keep alive John Backus.
00:51:41.560 --> 00:51:44.554
Refer mark.
00:51:44.555 --> 00:51:50.254
Visionary dream of a multiracial democracy.
00:51:50.255 --> 00:51:53.340
Grand tied in the law.
00:51:54.070 --> 00:52:02.070
And just for Justice Chao love the prophetic
black church who loved Joe weight.
00:52:04.960 --> 00:52:08.839
We shall never forget.
00:52:08.840 --> 00:52:13.710
Never forget the old.
00:52:18.820 --> 00:52:20.419
G1
00:52:20.420 --> 00:52:28.420
Stage scheme.
00:52:30.380 --> 00:52:32.010
It is.
00:52:32.890 --> 00:52:37.084
Rather the Medgar leader
00:52:37.085 --> 00:52:43.804
of quiet dignity and
undeniable determination.
00:52:43.805 --> 00:52:48.724
Fighting for black people to
gain the right to vote in
00:52:48.725 --> 00:52:54.739
Gut Bucket Mississippi
within apartheid America.
00:52:54.740 --> 00:52:57.289
We shall never forget.
00:52:57.290 --> 00:53:00.439
We shall never forget show love.
00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:04.890
We shall never forget your sacrifice.
00:53:06.640 --> 00:53:12.660
The stage.
00:53:19.180 --> 00:53:26.359
This is the mao come.
00:53:26.360 --> 00:53:31.399
Tell about the night side
of American democracy.
00:53:31.400 --> 00:53:37.624
Kellen America likely because it\'s
vicious legacy of white supremacy.
00:53:37.625 --> 00:53:45.104
We shall never forget that we shall
never forget the love that you lay.
00:53:45.105 --> 00:53:50.044
Your fire is spirit of that work
among the younger generation.
00:53:50.045 --> 00:53:58.045
They and us shall never forget share. Ebay.
00:54:00.640 --> 00:54:01.939
A
00:54:01.940 --> 00:54:03.150
Is
00:54:10.060 --> 00:54:12.049
The radius
00:54:12.050 --> 00:54:16.860
of Mars
00:54:28.210 --> 00:54:33.649
will be demonstrating here until freedom
copy your negroes here and Jack them.
00:54:33.650 --> 00:54:39.990
If you want to be.
00:54:43.000 --> 00:54:51.000
We can never give.
00:55:00.730 --> 00:55:06.379
You taught us there\'s no struggle
without sacrifice that there\'s
00:55:06.380 --> 00:55:13.590
no rebirth without death that the world is
then completed history is done. Finished
Distributor: Bullfrog Films
Length: 55 minutes
Date: 2005
Genre: Expository
Language: English
Grade: 10-12, College, Adult
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Closed Captioning: Available
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