One Nation For Peace...?

[Stand Your Ground]

Not sure if anything was posted about this before.

Thoughts?

http://www.onenationforpeace.org/

[MarxSchmarx]

Not sure if anything was posted about this before.

Thoughts?

http://www.onenationforpeace.org/

What precisely is this march going to accomplish? There were massive demonstrations in Washington DC before the invasion of Iraq that went no where. The press will continue to largely ignore them. I see no evidence that these people have learned their lessons. This group is actually worse because in checking out their website their message is so muddled it can't be communicated intuitively and effectively to the broader public. It doesn't help that their demands are reformist.

[Rusty Shackleford]

I removed my previous comment. Turns out, ANSWER is also endorsing the event.

I feel rather embarrassed now.

i think i just went a bit too far in criticizing it because the CPUSA was a part of it :blushing:

[Revy]

There was always tension in the SPUSA over it being a member of the UFPJ. As a member of UFPJ the party was ignored. During the 2008 election the UFPJ did a profile of the candidates and the SPUSA candidate wasn't listed. The main reason there was tension over UFPJ, was because UFPJ is pro-Democrats first and anti-war last. Eventually the SPUSA left UFPJ, which was a happy moment for me as I had been a very vocal advocate of leaving it.

Anything that is anti-Democratic Party is going to be silenced in UFPJ which sees its role as defending Democrats. Now that a Democrat is in the White House they are going to be defending the administration and Obama. This demonstration is conveniently timed for October, close to the November election. No doubt they see a way of promoting peace and justice is electing Democrats.

[KurtFF8]

There was always tension in the SPUSA over it being a member of the UFPJ. As a member of UFPJ the party was ignored. During the 2008 election the UFPJ did a profile of the candidates and the SPUSA candidate wasn't listed. The main reason there was tension over UFPJ, was because UFPJ is pro-Democrats first and anti-war last. Eventually the SPUSA left UFPJ, which was a happy moment for me as I had been a very vocal advocate of leaving it.

Anything that is anti-Democratic Party is going to be silenced in UFPJ which sees its role as defending Democrats. Now that a Democrat is in the White House they are going to be defending the administration and Obama. This demonstration is conveniently timed for October, close to the November election. No doubt they see a way of promoting peace and justice is electing Democrats.

SPUSA should join ANSWER then :)

Anyway, the One Nation march is mainly about jobs and is a union march http://www.onenationworkingtogether.org/ The thing in the OP seems to be a specific sect of the march.

It's a very broad coalition, which is one of the reasons it's so vague.

[sabotage]

Figured this might be of interest to some.


*Statement of the Socialist Contingent followed by initial endorsers and
information for Washington, DC:*

Join the Socialist Contingent on October 2

We March for Jobs, Peace, Justice and the Socialist Alternative That Can Win
Them

Hundreds of thousands of Americans organized by labor and civil rights
organizations will gather in Washington, D.C. on October 2 to demand a
change in the direction that our nation is heading. We are proud to join
this march to demand jobs, to demand an end to the wars in Iraq,
Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and for a society that is fairer, more equal and
more just. We believe it important to be in the capital on that date to help
create a counterweight to Glenn Beck, the Tea Party, and Republicans, their
reactionary politics, ruthless economics, and their racism.

We do not, however, share the goals of the AFL-CIO, the NAACP, and other
organizations which hope to achieve jobs and justice by supporting Barack
Obama and the Democratic Party in the national elections on November 2. We
believe that it has become quite clear now that neither Democrats nor the
Republicans are capable of solving the country’s three great crises—the
economy, the environment, and the wars—in a way that will be good for the
American people. The goals of a full employment economy, real environmental
sustainability, and peace cannot be achieved by our capitalist system and
the corporations motivated only by profit. We need a new direction toward a
new system.

The two major parties have failed us. During the past two years, the
Democrats and Republicans have failed to represent us, but they have done a
fine job of representing the banks, insurance companies, and corporations.
They saved the banks for the bankers—not those whose homes are still
threatened with foreclosure or collapsing value. They saved the auto
industry for the auto CEOs—not for the workers whose plants have been
closed, whose health insurance contributions have been raised, and whose
wages have been lowered. They have saved the health insurance companies by
forcing millions of Americans to buy their policies, while denying us a
single-payer plan and leaving prices remain uncontrolled. They have saved
them, but they have not saved us.

We join the movement for this march, excited and enthused to see the labor
unions, the African American and Latino populations, the women’s, gay and
lesbian and environmental movements taking to the streets. But we know that
change can only be brought about as it has been in every period of American
history by independent social movements. And such independent movements must
find political expression first in independent candidates and then in a
party of working people and all in our society who suffer exploitation,
discrimination and oppression.

The organizers of this march have called it “One Nation.” The truth is we
are two nations. One nation of corporate CEOs and Bankers and their legions
of high level executives, the very wealthy of our country, and another
nation of working people, many of them now jobless. We are two nations: the
corporations who run this country and the working people who make this
country run. We will be marching with the working class to end a system
dominated by corporations. We march because we believe that those working
people who make the country run should run the country.

We know from American history and the history of the world that great and
progressive changes come about only from below. We know that in modern times
working people, who stand at the center of our economy and represent the
majority of our population, represent the crucial force capable of making
the changes we need. We also know that if we only organize movements and
fail to create an independent political force, the Democrats will harvest
all of our organizing. The fruits of our labor will be turned against us in
Congress.

So we march. We march for jobs. We march for single-payer health care. We
march for free public education from K to Ph.D. We march for an end to our
racist and class-biased injustice system, and for equal justice for all. We
march for women’s rights. We march for legalization of all the undocumented.
We march for LGBT rights. We march for an end to the destruction of our
environment. We march for an end to the U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and
Pakistan. We march for an end to US support for Israel's occupation of
Palestine and blockade of Gaza. We march knowing that the things we march
for can only be achieved by abolishing capitalism and creating a democratic
socialist society. We invite you to march with us. Join the Socialist
Contingent on October 2 in Washington, D.C.

Organizations:

Dan La Botz, Socialist Party campaign for U.S. Senate, Ohio
International Socialist Organization (ISO)
Solidarity: a democratic, revolutionary socialist, feminist, anti-racist
organization
Socialist Alternative
Socialist Action
Socialist Party of New York City
Socialist Party of Central Virginia
Action for a Progressive Pakistan

Publications:

New Politics: A Journal of Socialist Thought

Individuals:

*Organizations listed for listed for identification purposes only.

Cindy Sheehan, “Peace Mom,” founder Peace of the Action

Steve Early, author of Embedded With Organized Labor, National Writers
Union/UAW member

Jerry Tucker, former member, UAW International Executive Board

Nativo Vigil Lopez, National President of the Mexican American Political
Association

Fred Magdoff, author of The Great Financial Crisis and Professor Emeritus,
University of Vermont

Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums, Professor, Department of Creative
Writing, U.C. Riverside

Camilo Mejía, Iraq war veteran and resister and member of IVAW

Naseer Aruri, author of Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return and
Chancellor Professor of Political Science (Emeritus), University of
Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Keaanga-Yamahtta Taylor, editorial board of the International Socialist
Review

Joanne Landy, New Politics

Victor Agosto, Afghanistan War resister and member of IVAW

Billy Wharton, Co-chairperson, Socialist Party USA

Jason Schulman, New Politics, Democratic Socialists of America National
Political Committee

Paul Street, author of The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real
World of Power

Dave Zirin, Sports Editor of the Nation Magazine and author of A People's
History of Sports

David McReynolds, former chair of War Resisters International, Socialist
Party USA Presidential candidate in 1980 and 2000

Dahr Jamail, author Beyond the Green Zone, independent Journalist

Anthony Arnove, author of Iraq Logic of Withdrawal, editorial board of
the International
Socialist Review

Michael Hirsch, New Politics: A Journal of Socialist Thought editorial
board, member Democratic Socialists of America

Greg Albo, Socialist Project and York University

David McNally, Professor of political science at York University

Sandy Boyer, co-host of WBAI's Radio Free Eireann and has led campaigns to
free Irish political prisoners including the Guildford 4 and Birmingham 6.

Sebastian Budgen, Editorial Board, Historical Materialism

Paul D’Amato, author of The Meaning of Marxism and Managing Editor of
the International
Socialist Review

Julie Fain, editorial board of the International Socialist Review

Sam Farber, retired professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College

Phil Gasper, Editor of The Communist Manifesto: A Roadmap to History’s Most
Important Political Document and editorial board of the International
Socialist Review

Joel Geier, Associate Editor of the International Socialist Review

Thomas Harrison, New Politics

Ron Jacobs, Author and Library Worker

Brian Jones, performer of Marx and Soho and editorial board of the
International
Socialist Review

Deepa Kumar, author of Outside the Box and member of AAUP-AFT, Rutgers*

Micah Landau, New Politics

Paul LeBlanc, antiwar activist and author of Marx, Lenin and the
Revolutionary Experience

Jesse Lemisch, Professor of History Emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal
Justice, City University of NY

Tom Lewis, editorial board of the International Socialist Review

Traven Leyshon, President, Green Mountain Labor Council*

Alan Maass, Editor SocialistWorker.org

Scott McLemee, New Politics

Nagesh Rao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English, The College of New
Jersey, AFT Local 2364*

Bill Roberts, editorial board of the International Socialist Review

Jennifer Roesch, editorial board of the International Socialist Review

Herman Rosenfeld, Socialist Project and Labour Studies, McMaster University.

Eric Ruder, journalist for SocialistWorker.org and editorial board of
the International
Socialist Review

Kristin Schall, National Committee member, Socialist Party USA

Michael Schwartz, author of War Without End: The Iraq War in Context and
Professor of Sociology at State University of New York at Stony Brook

Helen Scott, editor of The Essential Rosa Luxemburg and editorial board of
the International Socialist Review

Lance Selfa, author of The Democrats: A Critical History and editorial board
of the International Socialist Review

Stephen R. Shalom, editorial board, New Politics

Ahmed Shawki, author of Black Liberation and Socialism and Editor of
the International
Socialist Review

Ashley Smith, editorial board of the International Socialist Review

Sharon Smith, author of Subterranean Fire and Women and Socialism.

Zelig Stern, Labor Commissioner, Socialist Party USA

Elizabeth Terzakis, editorial board of the International Socialist Review

Jeff Webber, author of *From **Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia*, Professor
of political science at the University of Regina

Lois Weiner, New Politics

Chris Williams, author of Ecology and Socialism and adjunct professor of
Chemistry and Physical Science, Pace University, NYC; Vice President, Union
of Adjunct Faculty at Pace; NYSUT Local 37-960*

Sherry Wolf, author of Sexuality and Socialism and editorial board of
theInternational Socialist Review

Julia Wrigley, New Politics

Annie Zirin, editorial board of the International Socialist Review

Join us at the rally:

Saturday, October 2, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.

At 12th and Constitution (NW)

Washington, D.C.

Following the rally, 5PM:

Join the ‘Socialism for the 21st Century’ forum with Dan La Botz,
Keaanga-Yamahtta
Taylor and others.