October 19
GUEST: Ray Acheson, Director of
Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament program of the Women’s
International League for Peace and Freedom, and steering
committee member of the International Campaign to Abolish
Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) talks about Cop City and ending state
violence.
Racketeering
of state violence
The Cop City resistance is a precursor to the massive demonstrations that we see against Israel. Israel is the symbol of US orchestrated violence in the rest of the world. Cop City is the symbol of violence here at home. The tactics of the empire are plain to see in both the repression of dissent here, and the genocide being perpetrated on the Palestinian people.
Our elite politicians and military planners have lost their minds. War crimes mean nothing. Killing thousands of children doesn't move them in the least. Our form of government, from the warmongers at the top to racist police, is a failure when it comes to serving the people of our country. In fact, the American Empire is the most dangerous country in the world. Martin Luther King saw it in his famous Riverside Church speech:
“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.”
Like MLK, we can no longer be silent. The US racist war machine must be confronted and torn down.
