Maurice Martin is a veteran of another silent war. He was in the US Army, and in the 1970s he spent some time in El Salvador, before the Central American Wars fully exploded.
He is also the organizer of the City College Chapter of Veterans against the war. Martin thanked Occupy, and reminded the crowd that this the 100th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement. "And still today Occupy cannot stand in front of the Civic Center."
Martin emphasized that these days "They need more tax cuts for the rich. Really? Promote war, but not pay for it?"
Martin reminded the crowd, that the suicide rates among returning veterans is very high. This year alone one hundred thousand vets have committed suicide. He added, that we "have a million homeless veterans." The VA tries but they don't have the resources.
He closed, with "El pueblo vive, la lucha sigue." (The people live, the struggle continues."
Dave Conway came to the stage to remind the crowd about Bradley Manning. He told the crowd that the system "had deployed a devastating weapon of mass distraction." That be the elections and the debates.
It was a way to try to keep people believing that they still lived in democracy. This is an illusion.
What Manning did, according to Conway, was tell the people
what the government was doing in their name. For that he has been subjugated to
cruel and inhumane treatment, that even the UN calls torture. It is the
equivalent of the Pentagon Papers, and Daniel Ellsberg.
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