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Solidarity From Canada's Westcoast

Westcoast | 17.02.2003 19:06

History calls on us all! [reprint at leisure]

Solidarity From Canada's Westcoast
Solidarity From Canada's Westcoast


Hello Great Britain!

I am writing to you from Victoria, BC to thank you for your AWESOME and INSPIRING turnout – each individual, all 2 million of you are INCREDIBLE!

On Feb. 15th, here at the edge of the Commonwealth (think about what that term really means) we staged the largest anti-war demonstration in our city's history.

Momentum is growing! We can do this if we ALL unite against corporate global fascism - if we begin to SHARE with the Third World. How many SUVs do you need anyway? Does shopping at Wal-Mart make you feel like a good person?

You are what you throw away.

When I look at the pictures from your streets I say, "Hey, they look just like me!" We are all the same, and we all want the same thing. Peace! Corporate globalization is feeding us all the same shitty experience. And the common human response is to realize that "value" and "integrity" are ingredients missing in present-day consumerism.

The “estrangement” between labour “value” and product “cost/profit” has reached never before seen heights. Global capitalism is here. Machines will soon make nearly all human labour redundant if nothing is done to curb such oppression. The elite technological take-over makes the populace redundant and unneeded, just as the corporate resource grab accelerates to a pace never seen before. Here in B.C. the U.S. has slapped an illegal tariff against our softwood lumber exports so that American mills can take our wood more cheaply, completely against the policies of "free trade."

Corporate fascists reside anywhere they can make money. They are not "American" or "British" or "Canadian" - they are globalists, and their “pull” allows them to reside wherever they wish while storing vast amounts of wealth in foreign depositories. They are arrogant: BC’s premier was arrested in Hawaii last month for being absolutely HAMMERED behind the wheel (with his family in the car, I should add), however he simply apologized and refused to step down. And he says he represents value and integrity!?

One quarter of all American children are OBESE due to McDick hamburgers and no government pre-emptive education, which is due in large part to the "lassez-faire" corporate agenda! The Americans are people too, and they are brainwashed completely - more so than the rest of us because they reside in the belly of the beast! But their economy, the world economy, is failing. Americans are in far greater debt than ever before.

The resource grab must be halted. Killing off the Third World is simply a reflection of things to come in our own communities. Who cares what rogue politicians and the corporate media are telling us! We know they are lying, we know innocent civilians are dying, have died, and will die. This is ridiculous! The people say what goes. Our nations’ soldiers are people too – they are simply brainwashed and rewarded for being so. But there is a way we can ALL share in the vast wealth of our planet, instead of sucking it dry like a quickly emptying and too-small-to-begin-with coke can.

History is written by the victors.

There is no where to hide any longer - the global community is speaking. The smokescreen and lies of corporate media is being blown clear. Popular media culture is, simply put, destroying all us.

The new beginning, the epic change - has just begun!

World-wide! Let's do this!!!

PEACE & EDUCATION WORLDWIDE!
- westcoast

Westcoast