One Of My Neighbor's Daily Appeals For Peace

Here's the link to the daily updates: https://www.epaxoc.org/stay-updated

One of our friends and neighbors, Kathleen Temple, sends a daily email prompt, without fail, to everyone on her growing list, with a suggested topic to use in contacting their legislators to urge them to end their support for war-making. Here is a sample reminder, one that arrived today:  

Hello advocates,

Today, I want to draw my legislators’ attention to an article about France. And Algeria. Your legislators might need to see the article too. It shows a basic fact, that the Algerian people, formerly brutalized by France, are not going to “let bygones be bygones”. The dead may, in a way, be rising again.

It must’ve been exhilarating to be in that legislative chamber in Algiers when they voted unanimously for their bill!

I want my legislators to read the little article as a “heads up”. Because the persons holding our public purse strings —our legislators!— seem not to realize fully that the victims of their wars could, in fact, rise again.

The story can give hope to current victims of colonial brutality (e.g. Palestinian, Venezuelan, indigenous communities everywhere) but it also WARNS legislators that they had better never enable colonial brutality. (i.e. stop handing our money over to the war machine!)

Could you help me to distribute the warning by sending the article to your legislators?

Suggested wording follows. Convey the gist in any way that works for you. Me, I’m going to print out the image (above), write the “To” and “From” names and addresses along the top of the page, and add at the bottom this message:

[Legislator],

You may not be fully aware that you put yourself in grave jeopardy every time you fail to protest state violence. The victims of state violence may not get justice right away, but they surely never do just roll over and give up.

Please check out the story from Algeria: https://thecradle.co/articles/algerian-parliament-declares-french-colonial-rule-a-crime-seeks-reparations 

Algerians are far from vanquished. French colonial elites would have done well to avoid exploitative murderous violence back in the day. The bill for all of that evil is coming due.

You would do well to protest colonial violence now. Get our money OUT of the war machine.