On the 18th Anniversary of the war on Iraq, a war initiated on lies, hence a Crime of Aggression, the ultimate International War Crime, the Chicago Committee Against War and Racism organized a rally. It included speakers from many groups who campaign for justice in this society, one poisoned by racism, war and capitalist ideology, who recognize common ground at the root of their fight to achieve decency and equity for their members and for society as a whole.
-BLM/Chicago, BYP 100, Defund the CPD -Lift the Ban Coalition -Physicians for A National Health Plan, Illinois Single Payer and Coalition and Job With Justice -The Clinic Vest Project, Illinois Choice Action Team -Committee in Solidarity with Latin America, Chicago Area -Peace Action, Anakbayan Chicago, Chicago Committee Against War and Racism -Nuclear Energy Information Service
Topics addressed by speakers: -End State Repression and Institutional Racism -Promote an Economy the Serves the Working Class -Housing Food, Education and Healthcare are Human Rights -We Have the Right To Control Our Bodies -International Peace and Human Rights -Protect the Planet , Protect Us All
The 2010 book "Blood On Our Hands" by Nicolas J.S. Davies is one of the best sources to understand the systemic lies and scope of the U.S. Military's campaign of terror in its attempt to check the Iraqi resistance which was made up of Sunni, Shia and non believers in their fight, continuing to this day to rid their country of an occupying army and its collaborators. Davies provides historical, situational and operational background in his narriative exposing a U.S. program of State Terror executed by soldiers who were conditioned by superiors and ignorance to view all Iraqis as terrorist. Massive military fire power along with illegal weapons were used against civilians to demonstrate what would happen to communities who resisted occupation. At one point Israeli trained assassination teams, whose expertese in murdering civil society leaders in Palestinian while blending in with the population were brought in to train U.S. Special Forces who were then directed to kill educated opponents of the occupation in an effort to destroy Iraqi culture and nationalist solidarity; a campaign of terror like what the U.S. organized in Columbia, El Salvador and Nicaragua to protect corrupt governments, servile to U.S. corporate investments.
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