From Mumia Abu-Jamal on death row
Stop the war now!
Published Mar 22, 2007 1:11 AM
From a March 13 audio column.
Go to prisonradio.org to hear more of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s
columns.
The Troops Out Now Coalition is making one of the boldest calls yet, since the
war began in March 2003. It calls for folks to go beyond protest to resistance,
to civil disobedience; to bringing the struggle to the halls of Congress; to
bring an immediate end to an ignoble war; to force Congress to do what they can
do this very day—cut off funds now!
Every dollar sent down this rat hole (is it now a billion dollars a week?) is
money that is stolen from school budgets, stolen from health needs, diverted
from our housing needs, and tracked toward the overflowing coffers of
Halliburton, KBR, and other defense contractors!
This war, in that sense, is a war against the poor of America itself. And
don’t bring up the soldiers—you only need to look at the military
ghetto known as Building 18 at Walter Reed Veterans’ Hospital—to
see they don’t give a damn. Boy, speakin’ of rat holes!
A midterm election won’t end this damn war—action, protest, civil
disobedience will! The Troops Out Now Coalition is part of that struggle!
Ona Move! Mumia Abu-Jamal
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