Thursday, June 28, 2007
SWOP homepage& Our Own Julian Moya on the Militarization/Prison-Industrial Complex Plenary!
here is some of what Julian had to say:
“Our future is the present. The anti-war movement, the anti-militarization movement needs to be led by youth, because our generation is heading toward being a generation of veterans, that doesn’t have proper resources or health care, because our imperialist regime that sends us to war is the same one that has cut these services for veterans. We must stop this racist, imperialist regime from sending to war our best and brightest young people of color!”
Right ON Julian!!
Another presenter asked us to: "Imagine a world in which there are no prisons. Really imagine that. NO prisons. Can you imagine this? Really? A world in which there is NO prison-industrial complex. Not kinder or gentler but simply NO prisons."
Stats she rolled out...created a picture of what she called genocide...because when at any given time 5% of black men are in prison...you are killing a community. She called the prison industrial complex the largest "social program" we have short of the military. We are constantly policed, and if we aren't policed we are policing. And we do it all over the world without batting an eye because we do it right here without batting an eye.
So we have to get rid of it.
I can imagine a world without it. Can you?
“Our future is the present. The anti-war movement, the anti-militarization movement needs to be led by youth, because our generation is heading toward being a generation of veterans, that doesn’t have proper resources or health care, because our imperialist regime that sends us to war is the same one that has cut these services for veterans. We must stop this racist, imperialist regime from sending to war our best and brightest young people of color!”
Right ON Julian!!
Another presenter asked us to: "Imagine a world in which there are no prisons. Really imagine that. NO prisons. Can you imagine this? Really? A world in which there is NO prison-industrial complex. Not kinder or gentler but simply NO prisons."
Stats she rolled out...created a picture of what she called genocide...because when at any given time 5% of black men are in prison...you are killing a community. She called the prison industrial complex the largest "social program" we have short of the military. We are constantly policed, and if we aren't policed we are policing. And we do it all over the world without batting an eye because we do it right here without batting an eye.
So we have to get rid of it.
I can imagine a world without it. Can you?
