In Honor Of May Day 2014-From The American Left History Blog Archives-Notes Of An Old Soldier-Greetings On May Day 2012 From The Boston
Rally- Immediate Unconditional Withdrawal Of All U.S./Allied Troops And
Mercenaries From Afghanistan –Ten Years Is Enough!
Sisters and Brothers, Hermanas y Hermanos, greetings
on this glorious May Day, a day of international solidarity with the working
people and oppressed of the world. Veterans for Peace proudly stands in
solidarity with and defense of the just struggles of all people for political,
social and economic justice in this wicked old world. And as witness our
defenses of the encampments at Dewey Square in October and December of last
year, and on a myriad other occasions, these are not just flowery words used on
holiday occasions.
May Day is a very appropriate day to address the
lessons of war and peace, lessons, as our organization’s name indicates, that
have been dearly learned by war-hardened veterans on many of the battle fields
of the 20th and 21st century. I want to tell you a secret, a secret though
that I want you to spread far and wide. I do not give a damn about the Obama
Administration’s timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan. I say, no I cry out
to high heaven- Immediate Unconditional Withdrawal of All U.S./Allied Troops
and Mercenaries from Afghanistan. Ten years is enough!
And since this May Day is a day for actions I call on
our sister and brother rank and file soldiers in Afghanistan, abandoned by the
Obama administration to international expediency, to tell, no order, their
commanders from that lowly platoon leader out in the boondocks to Commander-In
Chief Obama to rev up the jeeps now, rev up the truck transports now, rev up
the transport planes now. All Troops Out Now! And when they get back here heal
them! Enough of war! Thank you.
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