Monday, June 02, 2008
Token Citizenship
The US boycott of the cluster bomb conference in Dublin, Friday, caught no one by surprise; for seven years running, the government of the United States hasn't even made a pretense of respecting human rights or human life. Knowing that, symbolic activism by anti-warriors (like ANSWER and the ILWU in their one-day-a-year protest and shutdown of shipping terminals) becomes yet another empty commemoration to the risk-taking and courage of the 1960s that has almost disappeared from American society. Resistance to our openly-acknowledged fascist state requires a 24/7 365 commitment to shutting down not only the armaments industry, but in disrupting business as usual in the halls of Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court. Anything less is just token citizenship.
