Alpaca-Wearing, Pony-Tailed Volvo Drivers - Party Up!

There's gonna be a party - and all patchouli-wearing arrested-development Baby Boomers who pine for the sixties are invited!

STOPPING THE MERCHANTS OF DEATH
A Strategic Conference for Grassroots Activists

Calling all organizations working to expose and stop corporations' war making and war profiteering! Drawing upon the spirit, the experience and success of the Honeywell campaign, the War Resisters League is joining many other groups to sponsor a national networking and strategy conference.

"Spirit and Success".

Can't speak for the "spirit" of the decades-long "Honeywell Project", which has served mainly to cause groups of geriatric baby boomers to stand around the gates of local defense plants (formerly Honeywell, currently Alliant Tech Systems, or ATK) marinating in their own self-righteousness.

As to "Success" - ATK is a much smaller operation now than it was thirty years ago, but that had more to do with the end of the Cold War - which people like the "Honeywell Project" only delayed.

No, the only "Success" ascribable to the "Honeywell Project" is the small boom market it created for documentary film-makers in the nineties; all that government grant money financed a lot of bad hagiographic movies.

Purpose: To build a cohesive local and national anti-corporate movement and develop strategies for stopping the corporate "Merchants of Death."

I suspect they're not talking about Nasrallah, Ahmadi-nejad or Kim Jong-Il.

When: Friday, Sept. 29 - Oct. 2, 2006
Where: University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
RSVP: Simon Harak, WRL Anti-militarism Coordinator, amc@warresisters.org,
ph: 212-228-0450; Please RSVP by August 15, 2006

Doh!

Join us the whole weekend and honor Gandhi's Birthday, Oct. 2nd, in our nonviolent direct action at Alliant Techsystems (makers of depleted uranium). Nonviolent direct action training provided and strongly recommended.

Because when you let a bunch of patchouli-reeking leftists loose, you never know what they'll do if they're not "trained" properly.

SCHEDULE:
Friday, Sept. 29-Showing Eugene Jarecki's film, "Why We Fight" with possible Q.&A. with director, pending confirmation.$7

Saturday, Sept. 30-Strategy Conference ($35 registration fee)

Oh, if only...

Saturday Evening-Honeywell Campaign reunion. Join in with the songs, the stories, and the fun with some cool radicals from the Honeywell campaign and AlliantTech Campaign. Food and Drinks Provided.

Oh, maaaaan. I'm going to have to try to attend this.

Maybe if I don't shave or brush my teeth for a month...

Sunday, Oct. 1-Creating a Network

Sunday Evening-Concert and Rally (Students and Pre-Registration $10, Door $12)
Begins and ends with A.I.M.'s Vernon Bellecourt and Indian Drumming. Also: Utah Phillips (singer/songwriter), Winona LaDuke (former Vice-Presidential Candidate), Paul Krassner (Yippie co-founder, "Father of Satire"), Medea Benjamin (Global Exchange, Code Pink), Howard Zinn (tentative-Historian), Frida Berrigan (World Policy Institute, WRL), Sister Rita Steinhagen (SOA Watch), Marv Davidov (Freedom Rider, co-founder Honeywell), Prince Myshkins (Madison, WI, satirical group), Tom Bottolene and Pepperwolf (Alliant Action), Jack Nelson Pallmeyer (MN Congressional Candidate), Joanne Sheehan (War Resisters International).

All of this and Madison "satirical group" Prince Myshkins?

I'm all tingly.

Monday, Oct. 2-HAPPY BIRTHDAY GANDHI! Massive Nonviolent Direct Action at Alliant Techsystems.

Ah. Gandhi.

The guy who said Jews, to fight the Holocaust, should go to their deaths to teach those dang Nazis a lesson.

The guy about whom it was said it cost more to keep in showy poverty than to feed several regular families?

Dear ProtestWarrior: Please tell me y'all are going to be there...

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