Edelweiss
25th May 2005, 21:40
Join the Virtual Sit-In against the MinuteMen
SWARM the Minuntemen invites people from all over the world who oppose racist violence to join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre action on May 27th, 28th and 29th, 2005 to engage in a virtual sit-in on the MinuteMen website during their "Unite to Fight" Summit. // SWARM the Minutemen Invita gente desde todo el mundo quien estan contra la violencia racista a una el accion de Electronic Disturbance Theatre en el 27, 28 y 29 de Mayo, 2005 para un "virtual sit-in" el el sitio de web de los MinuteMen durante sus conferencia de "Unate para Pelear".
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY
SWARM the Minuntemen invites people from all over the world who oppose racist violence to
join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre action on May 27th, 28th and
29th, 2005 to engage in a virtual sit-in on the MinuteMen website during
their "Unite to Fight" Summit.
Read on for the Electronic Disturbance Theatre call to action.
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
- “The New Colossus,” by the nineteenth-century American poet Emma
Lazarus inscribed on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
Dear sisters and brothers,
Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) in solidarity with Swarm The
MinuteMen action will hold a 3 Day Virtual Sit-In starting on May 27th
to May 29th (2005) on the MinuteMen Project. We call on all you to join
us and let the MinuteMen Project know that hard borders are alien in an
age of global interdependence and to the ideals of liberty as a “golden
door” that is open to all. An ideal that so many have died trying to reach.
To Join The Virtual Sit-In On Starting on May 27th Click:
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
Why we must swarm the MinuteMen:
For Víctor Nicolás Sánchez, Adolfo Pérez Hernández, Daniel Barrientos,
Santos Orozco Aguilar, Raúl Hernández Soria, Sandra Edna Durán, Jesús
Medina Contreras, Edgar Venegas Brambila, José Gutiérrez, Melquíades
Gómez Baca, Martha Rivera
García...
Myth Number 1: Immigrants take jobs away from Americans.
Myth Number 2: Most immigrants are a drain on the U.S. economy or treasury
Myth Number 3: America is being overrun by immigrants.
Myth Number 4: Immigrants aren’t really interested in becoming part of
American society.
Myth Number 5: Immigrants contribute little to American society.
Facts to dispel to these myths from the American Immigration Lawyers
Association: http://www.aila.org/contentViewer.aspx?bc=17,142
We call on you sisters and brothers from all over the world who oppose
the MinuteMen Project and in the name of the 3,500 women, men and
children who have died crossing into “The Land of Liberty” since 1994 to
join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre action on May 27th, 28th and
29th, 2005 to engage in a Virtual Sit-In on the MinuteMen website during
their "Unite to Fight" Summit.
Who are the MinuteMen:
The MinuteMen are a non-governmental group of people vowing to patrol
the US/Mexico border with guns in order to stop migrant people from
crossing the border. They represent an intensification of the trend of
violence towards migrant people and people of color that has increased
since 9/11/2001. While they claim that they are not violent, their very
use and display of deadly weapons is a violent act in itself. How can
guns be used to detain people without being violent? Already there have
been numerous reports of people being forced to lie on the ground by the
MinuteMen and being forced to have their pictures taken with MinuteMen
volunteers, recalling Abu Ghraib style dehumanization.
SWARM the MinuteMen Group Statement:
http://swarmtheminutemen.com/
While the MinuteMen publicly claim to be non-violent, we here at SWARM
know a different face of the MinuteMen. We've received numerous death
threats and threats of violence filled with racial slurs. We plan to
publicly release these soon to let everyone know the exact kind of
hatred the MinuteMen are acting as a lightning rod for, attracting it
and focusing it towards migrant people.
Just as important though, the MinuteMen are a clear result of the
violent, us-versus-them mentality promoted by the Bush administration.
We are intervening into and dancing with the communication systems of
the MinuteMen because along with the physical violence they are
creating, they are extremely conscious of the violent power their
messages have and they had any measure of success thanks to the
complicity the corporate media. Their communications are a critical part
of their mission to send a message to legislators that more
militarization of the border is necessary. Their images and words can't
be separated from the violence of their guns, and both must be stopped.
We refuse to support the United States government's attempts to find a
scapegoat to blame this country's problems on while it bankrupts our
social services, wages wars on the world, sends our brothers, sisters,
friends and neighbors to die and profits off of the whole plan. Who
stands to profit from a more militarized border? Will the same
corporations that made billions in government contracts off of the war
in Iraq like Halliburton and CACI be the same ones to profit from the
war on the border?
We must stand together now to say that this country is made up of
millions of people of many different ethnicities and cultures and that
is due to migration. Migrant people have human rights, regardless of the
government's and the racist's attempts to deny that fact. Until the
United States has a sane immigration policy that allows people to move
as freely as capital and goods do, we will continue to struggle.
Why should you join the Virtual Sit-In On May 27th 2005:
For Benito González Cruz, Benito González Serrano, Javier Rojas
Bracamonte, Juan José Romo Zetina, José Luis Garza, Roberto Acegueda
López, Román Robles Rojas, Reynaldo González Corona and the thousands of
other people who have been murdered for simply trying to cross the
border into what is now the United States and which was once Mexico.
Contact:
For any questions on the Electronic Disturbance Theater’s action in
solidarity with SWARM the MinuteMen contact
Ricardo Dominguez (co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater) at
[email protected]
Electronic Disturbance Theater
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
See our site for more info:
http://swarmtheminutemen.com
or our mirror:
http://www.autistici.org/swarmtheminutemen/
See our mirror sites to read our original content which our domain
registrar forced us to remove:
http://swarm.mahost.org/
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/swarm/index.php
SWARM the Minuntemen invites people from all over the world who oppose racist violence to join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre action on May 27th, 28th and 29th, 2005 to engage in a virtual sit-in on the MinuteMen website during their "Unite to Fight" Summit. // SWARM the Minutemen Invita gente desde todo el mundo quien estan contra la violencia racista a una el accion de Electronic Disturbance Theatre en el 27, 28 y 29 de Mayo, 2005 para un "virtual sit-in" el el sitio de web de los MinuteMen durante sus conferencia de "Unate para Pelear".
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY
SWARM the Minuntemen invites people from all over the world who oppose racist violence to
join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre action on May 27th, 28th and
29th, 2005 to engage in a virtual sit-in on the MinuteMen website during
their "Unite to Fight" Summit.
Read on for the Electronic Disturbance Theatre call to action.
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
- “The New Colossus,” by the nineteenth-century American poet Emma
Lazarus inscribed on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
Dear sisters and brothers,
Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) in solidarity with Swarm The
MinuteMen action will hold a 3 Day Virtual Sit-In starting on May 27th
to May 29th (2005) on the MinuteMen Project. We call on all you to join
us and let the MinuteMen Project know that hard borders are alien in an
age of global interdependence and to the ideals of liberty as a “golden
door” that is open to all. An ideal that so many have died trying to reach.
To Join The Virtual Sit-In On Starting on May 27th Click:
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
Why we must swarm the MinuteMen:
For Víctor Nicolás Sánchez, Adolfo Pérez Hernández, Daniel Barrientos,
Santos Orozco Aguilar, Raúl Hernández Soria, Sandra Edna Durán, Jesús
Medina Contreras, Edgar Venegas Brambila, José Gutiérrez, Melquíades
Gómez Baca, Martha Rivera
García...
Myth Number 1: Immigrants take jobs away from Americans.
Myth Number 2: Most immigrants are a drain on the U.S. economy or treasury
Myth Number 3: America is being overrun by immigrants.
Myth Number 4: Immigrants aren’t really interested in becoming part of
American society.
Myth Number 5: Immigrants contribute little to American society.
Facts to dispel to these myths from the American Immigration Lawyers
Association: http://www.aila.org/contentViewer.aspx?bc=17,142
We call on you sisters and brothers from all over the world who oppose
the MinuteMen Project and in the name of the 3,500 women, men and
children who have died crossing into “The Land of Liberty” since 1994 to
join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre action on May 27th, 28th and
29th, 2005 to engage in a Virtual Sit-In on the MinuteMen website during
their "Unite to Fight" Summit.
Who are the MinuteMen:
The MinuteMen are a non-governmental group of people vowing to patrol
the US/Mexico border with guns in order to stop migrant people from
crossing the border. They represent an intensification of the trend of
violence towards migrant people and people of color that has increased
since 9/11/2001. While they claim that they are not violent, their very
use and display of deadly weapons is a violent act in itself. How can
guns be used to detain people without being violent? Already there have
been numerous reports of people being forced to lie on the ground by the
MinuteMen and being forced to have their pictures taken with MinuteMen
volunteers, recalling Abu Ghraib style dehumanization.
SWARM the MinuteMen Group Statement:
http://swarmtheminutemen.com/
While the MinuteMen publicly claim to be non-violent, we here at SWARM
know a different face of the MinuteMen. We've received numerous death
threats and threats of violence filled with racial slurs. We plan to
publicly release these soon to let everyone know the exact kind of
hatred the MinuteMen are acting as a lightning rod for, attracting it
and focusing it towards migrant people.
Just as important though, the MinuteMen are a clear result of the
violent, us-versus-them mentality promoted by the Bush administration.
We are intervening into and dancing with the communication systems of
the MinuteMen because along with the physical violence they are
creating, they are extremely conscious of the violent power their
messages have and they had any measure of success thanks to the
complicity the corporate media. Their communications are a critical part
of their mission to send a message to legislators that more
militarization of the border is necessary. Their images and words can't
be separated from the violence of their guns, and both must be stopped.
We refuse to support the United States government's attempts to find a
scapegoat to blame this country's problems on while it bankrupts our
social services, wages wars on the world, sends our brothers, sisters,
friends and neighbors to die and profits off of the whole plan. Who
stands to profit from a more militarized border? Will the same
corporations that made billions in government contracts off of the war
in Iraq like Halliburton and CACI be the same ones to profit from the
war on the border?
We must stand together now to say that this country is made up of
millions of people of many different ethnicities and cultures and that
is due to migration. Migrant people have human rights, regardless of the
government's and the racist's attempts to deny that fact. Until the
United States has a sane immigration policy that allows people to move
as freely as capital and goods do, we will continue to struggle.
Why should you join the Virtual Sit-In On May 27th 2005:
For Benito González Cruz, Benito González Serrano, Javier Rojas
Bracamonte, Juan José Romo Zetina, José Luis Garza, Roberto Acegueda
López, Román Robles Rojas, Reynaldo González Corona and the thousands of
other people who have been murdered for simply trying to cross the
border into what is now the United States and which was once Mexico.
Contact:
For any questions on the Electronic Disturbance Theater’s action in
solidarity with SWARM the MinuteMen contact
Ricardo Dominguez (co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater) at
[email protected]
Electronic Disturbance Theater
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
See our site for more info:
http://swarmtheminutemen.com
or our mirror:
http://www.autistici.org/swarmtheminutemen/
See our mirror sites to read our original content which our domain
registrar forced us to remove:
http://swarm.mahost.org/
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/swarm/index.php