Progressive Pastor Calls for Protests on 9/11/07

[reprehensor]

There is a grassroots initiative that is catching on in some diverse quarters. Fed up with the passivity of elected representatives in the face of Bushco tyranny, an ad hoc group is gathering steam, calling on people to make a statement on the anniversary of 9/11: no work, no school... instead, hit the streets and send a message to the status quo; "Enough is enough."

Last Wednesday, August 1, Rev. Rich Lang held an Emergency Meeting calling on all interested activists to meet, reject passivity, and do something!

You can feel it in the air: many of us are living in the fear that we are one "bad event" away from this administration seizing power over the people in such a way that we will find ourselves swept up in a nightmare of tyranny such as we've never seen before...

This year, for the first time since 2001, 9/11 falls on a Tuesday. Tonight I want to call us to participate in a creative direct action goaled towards naming the demon and therefore awakening our people from their trance. Tonight I want to invite us into a city wide series of direct actions that will put thousands of people into the streets to perform, what might be called a Day of Democracy, but what I would call, a public exorcism of the tyranny of fear. Like Jesus, I want to invite us to "unchain" the possessed and let them go free. Unchain the possessed and help them find their voice...

...I want to call us into something a bit different. The empire has promoted our trance largely through the mechanism of stealing our voice, distorting our voice, controlling our voice, and then silencing our voice through shutting us out of the Corporate run media. So I say we should take our public assembly straight to them. It is in the graveyard of our media outlets, where once there was life, but now only death and distortion. I call upon us to gather in groups of tens, of hundreds, of thousands, and on Tuesday September 11th , the 6th anniversary, I call upon us to engage in several direct actions at each of the major Corporate media outlets: Seattle PI, King 5, KOMO, FOX etc etc etc …these direct actions will be public exorcisms acknowledging the name of the demon: the growing tyranny that has been inflicted upon our land...

...I issue forth this call because we can't simply stay asleep watching a treasonous band of lawbreakers bully our nation into tyranny. We must stand up to them. We must create a free space for our citizenry to take heart and as an example for other cities to do the same. This public act is a liturgy to inspire and motive those who are already hard at work in the trenches for electoral integrity, for impeachment, for stopping the war, for the reprioritizing of the political agendas of our representatives. This public act of liturgy is a tool to help our fellow citizens reconnect with their efforts. Democracy only works when the citizenry cares enough to move beyond concern to commitment.

Back on July 4th, a similar initiative was begun in Philadelphia, at the Philadelphia Emergency Antiwar Convention, where "over 300 delegates from diverse activist organizations and concerned citizens across America joined together ... dedicated to resolving our national crises of endless war and presidential dictatorship. ... These organizations included: Allentown Armory Activists, Alliance for a Sustainable Future, Boston 9/11 Truth, Coalition for Voting Integrity, DCOI Youth Group, DC 9/11 Truth, Delaware Valley Veterans for America, Family Victims of 9/11, Granny Peace Brigade, Green Party Philadelphia, Green Party Vermont, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Los Angeles National Impeachment Center, Military Families Speak Out, Northeast 9/11 Truth, Peace Action - Delaware Valley, Philly 9/11 Truth, Restore the Republic, Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth, Troops Out Now Coalition, Vermont 9/11 Truth, Vermont Coalition for 9/11 Truth, We Are Change, World Can’t Wait Philadelphia, Washington Grove Institute, 911truthsquads.org."

Acting on their own initiative, some activists have made their own poster:



This isn't the 60's, but some of that spirit lives on. Check this radio ad from actindependent.org;

Streaming audio;
http://media.putfile.com/actindependent-7-30-2007

MP3 D/L:
http://actindependent.org/9-11-07Spot1-a.mp3

Lots of action scheduled for Washington DC, as well:

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Gotta keep this kicked

[marmar]

2. Good on him....

:kick: & :thumbsup:

[seemslikeadream]

3. We Seem to Be Approaching An Age of the Gross

http://www.aminibigcircus.com/chalkdust.html




This bridge ain't goin' nowhere
Are you high?
Are you full of Bourbon liquor?
Are you a hunter or a digger?
Well I guess you got snotty
When you went back west
It ain't a big surprise
Those folk in California
Keep it close to the chest
No one grows up
No one grows old
No one ever dies

Spit chalkdust at your mother
Spit chalkdust at you pa
Spit chalkdust at little sister
My mouth is full of powder
But I can not swallow it all

Mr. Man are you on fire?
Today?

Are you a taker or a giver?
I ain't got closer yea to where you are
With your parental side
Never gone far
Nobody ever gonna die


Spit chalk dust at your mother
Spit chalkdust at you pa
Spit chalkdust at your little sister
My mouth is full of powder
But I can not swallow it all

Is it little blues is that you callin'?
Stay away
Are you looking for one more sucker?
Are you a fighter or a fucker?
You're shovin' my head in the oven
But still you're hummin' that tune
I feel like I'm gonna die
The ache in my bones
it won't end soon
Man that don't mean nothin'
I ain't ever gonna die

Spit chalk dust at your mother
Spit chalkdust at you pa
Spit chalkdust at little sister
My mouth is full of powder
I can not swallow it all


HAD THE ROCKS NOT BEEN THROWN
THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO CHANCE OF THE KILLING

PLEASE

PLEASE FORGIVE ME

PLEASE

PLEASE FORGIVE ME

PLEASE

PLEASE FORGIVE ME

PLEASE FORGIVE ME

PLEASE

PLEASE FORGIVE ME

Now remember what to do friends?
What are you supposed to do when you see the flag?


DUCK AND COVER

[Anita Garcia]

4. August and September - we'll be busy!

Don't forget the survivors of Katrina and Rita and the Jena 6 and the upcoming elections and September 11th and the continual struggle to end the war!
Thanks for posting this.
I'll do my best to keep it kicked.
This is much more important than a few people leaving a discussion board!

[reprehensor]

5. Taking it to the media.

What do you think's of Lang's focus on our complicit media?

[OnionPatch]

6. Have one in Los Angeles, too, and we'll be there

I'd love to participate but DC and NY are waaaaaaaay too far for me to travel. What are the chances there will be one in LA?

[reprehensor]

7. There will be action in L.A.

The guy who runs this forum, "YT"
http://www.truthaction.org/forum/index.php

Always has 9/11 activism on the eleventh, but if you register a handle at his forum, and let him know you are interested in a more broad-based protest, along the lines of what Lang and actindependent.org are talking about, I'm sure you'll be welcomed with open arms.

They'll be doing something this coming Saturday for sure.

[dkofos]

8. Where ever I am, I will be there.

[farmboxer]

9. Jerry Falwell will roll over in his grave

9/11 appears to have been an inside job, all one has to do is watch the Towers fall pancake to understand and check out the facts.

[BeHereNow]

10. Kick- I've been a fan of Lang's for years.

BHN

[nam78_two]

11. kick.nt