Targeting the poster child for war profiteering -- help needed!

[SophieZ]

(I am posting this for Katie)

Hello global citizens;
Houston Global Awareness has been working diligently to target Halliburton, the symbol of greed and corruption on its home turf. For the past year Houston Global Awareness has been planning workshops and skillshares culminating in a massive convergence on the Halliburton Annual Shareholders Meeting. Last year's protest of this event was very successful and there were five arrests. We are in serious need of some additional funds for travel expenses for those coming to Houston from out of town, legal representation for anyone who may be arrested, props like puppets and signs and permits. Any amount of money would be great.

We have a paypal and bank account set up specifically for this purpose. If you can donate anything please contact Mark Waller at [e-mail] or Katie Heim at [e-mail]

Thanks so much for supporting our efforts to strike a blow to this unjust war by hitting one of its many pillars. We couldn't do it without your help.

For more info on Houston Global Awareness Collective and our efforts please visit www.houstonglobalawareness.org and check www.houston.indymedia.org frequently.

-In solidarity,
Katie Heim


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For an analysis of war profiteering, read this:


An Unlikely Prophet:

The Marine Teddy Roosevelt called "the finest fighting man in the armed forces" speaks to us on war and profiteering.....

by Pokey Anderson

General Smedley Butler was raised a Quaker, and became one of the finest fighting men in the history of the U.S. military. He fought during the time the U.S. was first expanding its military adventures beyond this continent -- 1890s to 1920s. He fought in Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, Mexico, and China.

When he retired from the Marine Corps in 1931 at age 50, he was the highest-ranking Marine Corps officer at Brigadier General and one of the most famous Americans in the world. He won two Medals of Honor; no one has ever won three.

Teddy Roosevelt called General Butler "the finest fighting man in the armed forces."

WAR IS A RACKET.
BUTLER'S SIMPLE SOLUTION TO STOP IT IN ITS TRACKS.

After facing gunfire over 120 times, Butler realized his fighting was to make profits for the war industry, and spoke out. In his book "War Is A Racket," Butler said war is the worst of rackets, and is the only one "in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."

To end war profiteering, Butler suggested that all steel makers, munitions workers, bankers etc. get the same pay as fighting soldiers.

"The only way to smash this racket is to conscript capital and industry and labor before the nation's manhood can be conscripted. One month before the Government can conscript the young men of the nation, it must conscript capital and industry and labor. Let the officers and the directors and the high-powered executives of our armament factories and our munitions makers and our shipbuilders and our airplane builders and the manufacturers of all the other things that provide profit in war time as well as the bankers and the speculators, be conscripted -- to get $30 a month, the same wage as the lads in the trenches get.

Let the workers in these plants get the same wages -- all the workers, all presidents, all executives, all directors, all managers, all bankers -- yes, and all generals and all admirals and all officers and all politicians and all government office holders -- everyone in the nation be restricted to a total monthly income not to exceed that paid to the soldier in the trenches!"

After 30 days, said General Smedley Butler, "there will be no war. That will smash the war racket, that and nothing else."

Pokey Anderson is a free-lance researcher. She co-hosts a global news and commentary radio show on KPFT (90.1 fm or www.kpft.org) - Sunday Monitor, each Sunday from 6 pm to 7 pm Central Time.

[SophieZ]

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Not one person has any comment about Halliburton, or a protest against them? (Last year's protest got major press.)

???

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