My speech to be delivered today

Hello Beautiful People. My name is Echo Steiner.

I am a mother of a beautiful daughter,
who I did not raise to kill some other mother's child.

I am Co-Chair of the Florida Green Party and the co- secretary of the National Green Party's Peace action Committee.

I am a Military Family Speaks Out member, with a brother in the reserves who has already served one tour in this bloody occupation.

I'm a member of Code Pink, the ACLU, the SDS, and NOW.

I am an election reform activist, and co founder the Palm Beach Coalition for Election Reform, hoping one day we have the tools to run fair, transparent and reverifiable elections, that are not controlled by the corporate parties.

And I am tired of fucking marching..

We have marched.

We have marched in Lake Worth. We marched in Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, West Palm, New York, San Fransisco, DC, and every nook and cranny of this world.

We have sent emails to our elected officials, faxed them, wrote them, and called them.

My feet are tired.
My inbox is full.
My fax is out of Ink.
And my calls have been unanswered.

I am sick of trying to convince some paid off elected, who the corporate media tells me is a progressive Dem, that the war is a racket.

FUCK YOU BILL NELSON.

FUCK YOU HILLARY CLINTON, GO BACK TO YOUR WALMART BOARD POSITION YOU HELD BACK IN ARKANSAS.


AND MOST OF ALL FUCK YOU JOHN KERRY AND AL GORE FOR NOT FIGHTING FOR THE ELECTIONS THAT WERE NOT YOURS TO GIVE AWAY.

The movement needs a different strategy.

The world cant wait for the Dems to lose another election in 2008 for you to be ready to work for antiwar candidates.

The strategy that many of you have used to vote for Pro war Democratic candidates, in hopes that they will kill a little slower than the Pro War republicans has cost too many lives.

We must elect antiwar candidates,
and if your party can not come up with one, or worse yet, in Kuciniches case, when they refuse to support them,

then you must vote your HOPES NOT YOUR FEARS.

Mario Savio, a voice from this country's Free Speech movement said “conscience is the court of last resort."

How did your conscience feel when you voted for Kerry? And hows it gonna feel when you vote for Hillary, who currently is calling for a troop increase of 80,000 while our own rabid warmongering president is talking about reductions?

Mario also said...
"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies on the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"

So I am sick of fucking marching.

I am sick of seeing you folks, many who I love and admire, break my heart again and again, by marching away from the rally and marching into a booth to vote for a prowar candidate.


I think its time those of us who will not accept a war candidate begin to put our bodies on the gears and upon the wheels.

It's time that we attack this so called two party system and refuse to touch the black box screen of any more millionaire bomb throwers.

Its time to get antiwar candidates elected,
WE DID THAT IN LAKE WORTH,

AND NOW LAKE WORTH HAS THE MOST PROMINENT ANTIWAR ELECTED OFFICIAL IN PALM BEACH COUNTY AS OUR MAYOR.

AND ON MARCH 28, CARA JENNINGS ANTI WAR ACTIVIST,
FOUNDER OF THE RADICAL CHEERLEADERS MOVEMENT.
WILL CARRY OUR VOICE LOUDER TO LAKE WORTH AND BECOME

OUR NEXT ANTI-WAR ELECTED OFFICIAL.

STOP MARCHING AND START SITTING DOWN, GETTING ARRESTED, AND VOTING PEACE OR YOU ARE JUST WORKING AGAINST YOURSELF AND SLOWING THE REST OF US DOWN.

WE NEED YOU 365 DAYS A YEAR, NOT JUST ON MARCH 19TH.

WE MUST SHUT THEM DOWN!

VOTE PEACE! VOTE CARA!

Get your Marching Boots on

This week is the third anniversary. And I bet if you left now, you could find somewhere to march.

Go speak out! Don't let them kill in our name, without resistance.

"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies on the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"--Mario Savio

Put your body on the gears!

gpax,
echo

Greens Mourn Tom Fox, Peace Worker and Hostage Murdered in Iraq

Greens Mourn Tom Fox, Peace Worker and Hostage Murdered in Iraq

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

Monday, March 13, 2006

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@greens.org

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party members expressed sorrow and anger over the death of Tom Fox.

Mr. Fox, who was in Iraq working as a member of the Christian Peacekeeper Teams (CPT) , was also a member of the Green Party of Virginia. He was murdered after having been abducted in Baghdad in November along with three other CPT members.

"Tom's dedication to nonviolence was absolute," said Kirit Mookerjee of the Green Party of Virginia. "His life is a model for Green Party members and for all Americans who value peace, justice, and the principles of nonviolent resolution of conflict. His death was senseless, but it also reflects the senselessness of the war on Iraq, which Tom, like the Green Party, passionately opposed. Greens join Langley Hill Friends Meeting, a peace group in northern Virginia to which Tom Fox belonged, in their appeal for peace in Iraq."

Greens expressed their condolences to Tom Fox's family and friends, and also joined CPT in their plea for the safe release of Harmeet Sooden, Jim Loney and Norman Kember, and all other hostages held in Iraq.

The Green Party of the United States has called for immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, over 2,300 U.S. servicemembers, and 54 foreign hostages have been killed as a result of the U.S. invasion, and Iraq is now on the brink of civil war.

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Green Party of the United States
http://www.gp.org
1700 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 404
Washington, DC 20009.
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
Fax 202-319-7193

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GP RELEASE Greens were right on Iraq, Dem & Repub warhawks wrong

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Monday, March 13, 2006

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624,
mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805,
starlene@greens.org


Greens and other antiwar Americans were right on Iraq;
prowar Republicans and Democrats were wrong

• Evidence of deceit and impending disaster existed
before Bush invaded Iraq; "Being right doesn't make us
proud, it makes us angry" say Greens.

• Events are planned to mark the third anniversary of
the invasion of Iraq.


WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party candidates and leaders
marked the beginning of the fourth year of the Iraq
War with a reminder that Greens and millions of other
Americans who opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq were
right from the very beginning.

"All those Republican and Democratic White House
officials and leaders in Congress and their apologists
in the media who supported the invasion of Iraq were
dead wrong, and many were complicit in the prowar
lies," said Jeff Kravitz, Green candidate for U.S.
Representative in California's 5th District
(Sacramento) <http://www.kravitzforcongress.org>.
"Some of them -- especially warhawk Democrats like
Senators Clinton [NY], Kerry [Mass.], and Biden [Del.]
-- are still wrong."

Greens, led by the party's Peace Action Committee
(GPAX) <http://www.gp.org/committees/peace>, will mark
the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq in
numerous events planned for the weekend of March 18.
GPAX has endorsed the Troops Out Now call for March 18
and 19 and International Days of Action Against the
War, with protests at military recruiting stations
throughout the U.S. The North Carolina Green Party is
co-sponsoring the Third Rally and March in
Fayetteville, near Ft. Bragg (contact: Elena Everett,
<greentararaider@yahoo.com>).

GPAX and the state Green Parties of North Carolina,
Michigan, Florida, and Oklahoma have endorsed the Gulf
Coast Vet and Katrina Survivor March
<http://www.vetgulfmarch.org>, which begins Tuesday,
March 14, and ends Sunday with an Antiwar-Gulf
solidarity rally in New Orleans.

Last week, Greens called for the release of Cindy
Sheehan, Green Party member Medea Benjamin, and other
antiwar protesters who had been arrested in New York
on March 6 for demanding immediate withdrawal of all
U.S. troops, which the Green Party supports. The
party has also called for no permament military bases
left behind in Iraq, an end to torture and other
illegal treatment of prisoners, a halt to domestic
attacks on civil liberties, and steps to break the
U.S. addiction to oil, and has consistently opposed
the war on Iraq since President Bush first threatened
an invasion:

• Greens warned in late 2002 and early 2003 that the
Bush Administration was lying to American citizens and
to the world when it claimed that Saddam Hussein
possessed WMDS, that he has conspired with al-Qaeda,
that Iraq had connections with the 9/11 attacks, and
that Saddam had sought nuclear weapons materials from
Africa.
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_09_27_02.html
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_10_25_02.html
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_01_19_03.html
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_02_10_03.html
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_02_13_03.html
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_02_14_03.html
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_03_20_03.html
http://www.gp.org/impeachbush/

"Evidence already existed that President Bush lied
about our reasons for invading Iraq when he delivered
his January, 2003, State of the Union speech," said
Rae Vogeler, Wisconsin Green Party candidate for U.S.
Senate <http://www.VoteRae.org>. "The Downing Street
memo confirmed that intelligence was 'fixed' to
support the war."

• Greens warned in March, 2003, that U.S. forces would
use illegal weapons materials, including depleted
uranium and cluster bombs; that the Bush
Administration was already violating the law in the
treatment of prisoners; and that contractors like
Halliburton were poised to profiteer from the
invasion.
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_03_20_03.html
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_05_12_03.html

• Greens have warned repeatedly that an invasion of
Iraq would inflame Muslim anger against the U.S.,
strengthening al-Qaeda and making the world less
secure.
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_03_20_03.html
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_01_20_04.html
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2005_07_08.shtml
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2005_09_19.shtml

• In July, 2003, the Green Party of the United States
called for the impeachment of President Bush for
deceiving the American people and for violation the
U.S. Constitution, and for withdrawal of U.S. troops
from Iraq.
http://www.gp.org/impeachbush/
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_07_21_03.html

• Calling for immediate withdrawal, Greens warned
repeatedly in 2005 that continued occupation might
lead to civil war in Iraq.
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2005_02_02.html
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2005_09_19.shtml
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2005_10_26b.shtml

"The thousands of Americans, including Greens, who
protested in the streets in early 2003 were right,"
said Michael Berg, Delaware Green candidate for U.S.
Representative <http://www.bergforcongress.us>, who
was thrust into the role of prominent spokesperson for
the peace movement when his son Nick was abducted and
killed on May 7, 2004 in retaliation for the torture
of Iraquis in Abu Ghraib prison. "We need to hold
public officials who got us into the Iraq war
accountable. Being right doesn't make us proud, it
makes us angry and sorrowful for the needless deaths
of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, the more than
2,300 U.S. servicemembers, and the hundreds of
civilian contractors."


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States
http://www.gp.org
1700 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 404
Washington, DC 20009.
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
Fax 202-319-7193

Green Party rebuttal to President Bush's 2006 State of
the Union Address (Video News Release)
http://www.gp.org/video/2006stateofunion


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