Jose Vega Explains the Next Steps for Anti-War Activism
https://rageagainstwar.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZItp7lJhwiw
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Over the
next couple of weeks we're going to be getting ready to go and protest at our
Congressional Representatives offices. We're
going to train you with the help of Jose here so that you can go out and help
us affect meaningful change and actually get some bills passed and get some
things repealed so that we can get out of this miserable hell machine[ek2] .
My walk
is going off. [Woman hands mike to man- Nick?]
Man [Nick]?
All right, so what we're going to be doing in a few weeks from now is we're all
here in DC now but we're all going to go back to our congressional districts
after this. We're gonna go back home and
what we're going to do is we're gonna do sit-ins. We're gonna have another day of action but
it's gonna be back where all of you are. So we're going to
do a day of action where everybody's going to go to their member of Congress
is how they're either their home or their congressional district office you're
going to do a sitting you're going to protest there and we're gonna bring it because
the war is something that has been brought to our house hasn't it[ek3] ?
We can't
avoid the war.
We didn't get a vote[ek4] . None of us voted to start this war- to start a
third world war. None of us are cheering
for a nuclear war. That's not our choice. Well
they
need to feel that so we're gonna bring it right there and so get ready for that
more coming from that in the next few days .
Turning
it over to Jose.
Jose Vega:
Now for
a couple minutes. Okay. Hi all. Can we
hear from Nick and Angela
putting
this together? Yeah. I'm really happy to
see all of your faces here and I also want to give thanks to Diane Sayer. She ran against killer Chuck Schumer and I
worked on her campaign. And you know
people always ask me like how do you how do you just start doing that? How do you just stand up and start going after
politicians?
Well,
the truth is I'm an American citizen and I know what that means. You know
there's an old saying that goes: “Know where you stand and then
stand there”.
And where are we standing today a hundred years ago this Lincoln Memorial was
constructed and inside there's a sentence from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
which says that “ we highly resolve that government of the People by the people
and for the people shall not perish from the Earth.”
How do
you actually do that? My answer is WE have to be that free government
that we intend to preserve to improve or to create. We, not our elected representatives, are the fourth branch of government. We are
not congressmen, we are not judges, we are not the executive branch. We are more than that. We are the people. We are not a political party. We are the people and we have the
responsibility not to be divided in the face of Injustice. What we do in America affects the whole world.
So why are we the people doing nothing
to stop our unjust Wars? The bankers of Wall Street, City of London, the ( ? ) , the Bank Rollers and the War Profiteers hate you/us
as much as they hate Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping and maybe more. Judge them by their deeds and if you don't
believe me look at our cities. They are
in they are destroyed and it's even worse now.
You know
I'm from the Bronx in New York City and we used to say it's burning but look
what's happening in Ohio. It's burning down too. Will you, the people, rise up to stop it?
And so
to close I would like to say that we have to listen to other nations and reject the idea that war
is a form of diplomacy. Martin Luther
King who spoke here and is with us here on the mall made the point that there
is such a thing as being too late. It is not yet too late but only if we unite
above party ideology and personality. We have to establish
principles for a new strategic and development
architecture that treats All Nations equally. And only when we remember that we are the
people, that we have the responsibility to reverse injustice, foreign and domestic,
will we create something better- a more perfect union. If we do our job we will be the government
that we and the whole world wants to see.
So let's get to it!
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[Applause]
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[ek2][ Nick]Offers training to protest at local Congressional Representatives office,
[ek3]Proposes sit-ins in local Congressional Offices.
[ek4]Part
2. of Jose's talk: War happening w/o our vote/consent. Sit-ins
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