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Against the DNC occupation of Boston
When the convention of the self-styled "Democratic" Party descends on Boston this summer, it will clearly show the contrast between the party's rhetoric and what it is really all about.
While the “Democratic” politicians talk about democracy and working for the people, their actions make them indistinguishable from the other corporate run party, the “Republicans.”
As a result, Boston is gearing up to sustain the implementation of a police state during the convention period in the area near the convention site. One subway station will be closed for the entire workweek, massive numbers of law enforcement personnel will be deployed, and plans are in place for a concrete barrier is to be built to seal off the public and protesters form the corporate networking fest.
When the only two major political parties in the country support the conquest of Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, and Colombia, subversion of democracy in Haiti and Venezuela, the erosion of civil liberties, scapegoating of immigrants, the expansion of a prison-industrial complex, the death penalty, corporate designed free trade agreements, the militarization of space, and the corporate consolidation of the media, we, the people begin to wonder just exactly what decisions are left to be influenced by exercising our democratic rights.
When groups as diverse as the Pentagon and Greenpeace converge on the concern for irreversible ecological destruction through global warming, when nuclear proliferation and nuclear power plant aging are continuing unchecked, and when corporations driven by monopoly interests genetically modify our food supply and proliferate these uncontrollable experimental organisms into the ecosystem, we citizens of the planet come to realize that we must find new ways of working together if there is to be a future.
The Green Party worldwide and Green-Rainbow Party here in Massachusetts is one political current that has served as a gathering point for many who feel the urgency of recreating our world into a just and mutual community before it is too late.
We are one of the voices of those who are voiceless in the current corporate-imperial structure of global capital. On behalf of those who have no say in the decisions that affect their lives, we call on the city of Boston, the State of Massachusetts and the US Government to recognize the rights of the people to peaceably assemble for a redress of our grievances at the site of the Democratic National Convention this summer in Boston.
Call off the plans to instill martial law and to occupy Boston. Do not use precious resources to support the building of a separation barrier either here in Boston or in Palestine.