by Emma Kaplan, World Can’t Wait Steering Committee Member
I am protesting the NATO Summit because I care about the people of the world. I am protesting NATO/U.S. war crimes because I don’t want a world where children have their limbs blown off or their parents murdered by the U.S. government. I am protesting NATO because NATO has given the U.S. free rein to bomb wedding parties, use unmanned drones on civilian populations, install puppet governments and devastate the lives of millions of people in Iraq and Afghanistan. I am protesting because these wars need to end now! I am protesting because people in my generation have never known anything different than the global war on terror and all the repression that comes with it.
What happens at the NATO summit is going to impact the lives and futures of people around the planet and we cannot leave that future in the hands of U.S. government. The U.S. is a criminal government that has carried out some of the most vicious war crimes in the name of freedom, prosperity and security and it is long past time that young people stand up boldly to say that humanity and the planet comes first!
The main focus of the NATO summit this year has been outlined as deciding the fate of Afghanistan, expanding the use of unmanned drones and drawing in other countries to take part in partnering with the U.S. agenda. I am going to be in Chicago with World Can’t Wait to articulate exactly what is wrong with these three things and why people should oppose all of them! There is a lot of potential to get this message out to the general public and the world. This is a potential that not only World Can’t Wait sees but the powers that be also see. The City of Chicago and the secret service are making preparations that seek to prevent the general public into joining with these protests. They are have been talking about having a highly visible police presence on the streets before NATO happens, mass evacuations and the closing down of public transportation. This is intolerable! Some of the most violent people on the planet are meeting in Chicago and the main concern is those who are protesting them?
This tells me that protesting the NATO summit is EXACTLY where we should be. Can you help me get there?
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Haha. You want help in bringing you here so we can add yet another brat to the crowd of idiotic protestors blocking traffic and creating problems for working class people who are just trying to get to and from work? If you care about the people of the world, including Chicago, stay away and leave our city alone.
Sounds like you protesting is creating a hostile environment to our big but humble city. I dont want THAT in our city…
one day i\”m watching the news and i hear about people protesting NATO so i ask myself why? isn\’t NATO about nations having peace so i wanted to find out and i ended up here. now i know why but it doesn\’t make sense to me in war civilians get hurt and die. why are you blaming NATO they are trying to make the world a better place. yes it\’s sad what happens in war but it is needed to get rid of the bad guys
Fetuses are NOT babies, abortion is not murder and women are not incubators. The fact that you are even comparing terminating a clump of cells to the murder of an ACTUAL child shows how little respect YOU actually have for real human life. Forcing woman to die by denying them access to abortion is as immoral as bombing children for empire. If you insist on enslaving women, denying them control over their bodies, you have much more in common with those who bomb civilians to control their country. You carry the immorality and hypocrisy not the author.
You are not for the government supporting operations in which children may have their limbs blown off; however, you promote mothers allowing the pressures of men to persuade them dismember, suffocate, and suck babies from their wombs? This is not liberation for women. This is a deranged form of thinking that keeps us oppressed by men and their desire to use us as play things with zero consequence. Where are the real women who will defend their unborn and their own sexuality? Not on the corner with megaphones and banners displaying crude statements that demean women and portray them as sexual objects.