Some of you on this list remember May 4 1970. I was a freshman in college in the Midwest, driving back east with some activists from a solidarity gathering on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. There was scratchy AM radio only, coming in and out, but we heard the news. Four students killed at Kent State University by National Guard bullets in the wake of Nixon and Kissinger’s attack on Cambodia.
After years of the U.S. war on the people of Indochina, the depravity of the system was laid bare. 400 campuses shut down by protests, including mine. Our anger and outrage at the time was epitomized in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s “Ohio.”
55 years later, U.S. imperialism, commanded by a fascist who asks “if we have nuclear weapons, why can’t we use them?” is so much more dangerous. How can you run, when you know?