A-Infos (en) US, DC. Funk the War* 9: Bad Romance - Student power against Obama's recession empire?

Funk the War, light the bed on fire, and break free from this bad romance! --- Washington, 
DC. March 19, the 7th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. --- Student mutiny against 
the War on Terror: Fund Education, Not War & Occupation. --- Obama's got us singing like 
Lady Gaga, “I want your love and all your lover's revenge.” Thousands of anti-war youth 
fell in love with Obama and dropped everything to build his campaign. He seduced us with 
promises of hope and change from Bush's abuses, all the while refusing to give up his lust 
for the War on Terror. --- We've been together a while now and Obama keeps expanding the 
War on Terror in the Middle East and Central Asia. He's taking advantage of record youth 
unemployment and skyrocketing college costs to drag young people into a war we've got 
nothing to gain from. More soldiers trapped in the War on Terror are committing suicide 
than ever before. Obama, “Baby, you're sick.”

March 19th is the 7th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq and the occupation's going 
strong. It's time to Funk the War, light the bed on fire, and break free from this bad 
romance.

“Walk, walk, fashion baby, work it!” DC SDS* is calling for a massive student power dance 
party against empire to disrupt the corporate-political war machine in streets of the 
capital city. We refuse to let another year of war in Iraq and war on our youth pass by 
without resistance. Join us in the streets and help build an unstoppable student & youth 
anti-war movement in 2010.

Assemble your crew, practice your moves, and throw on them dancing shoes. We'll be hosting 
anti-imperialist education events, direct action trainings, dance floor mayhem, and 
smaller actions in the lead up to March 19th. Get in touch if you'd like to attend or host 
an event or if we can help support your resistance efforts: strategic planning, action 
trainings, logistical support, we'd love to help. We'll see you in the streets.

Upcoming events in Washington, DC:

    * January 29: Funk the Warming – Down with the Fossil Hawks?
    * February 13: Funk the War 9 Consulta & Bad Romance Weekend?Consulta @ 4pm, RSVP to 
funkthewar9@gmail.com for more info.?
    * March 18: Schoolhouse Funk, pre-action teach-in hosted by the Washington Peace Center?
    * March 19: Funk the War: Bad Romance?
    * March 20: Mass march against the war; Funk the War post-action meet-up

More information:?
Visit us on the interwebs at http://www.dc-sds.org?
email: funkthewar9@gmail.com

What's about this bad romance?

Obama's recession empire and the rest of us

[Lady Gaga's song, Bad Romance, is a subversive feminist critique equating her 
relationship with record industry execs to an abusive relationship. The song speaks 
universally to young peoples' relationship with the CEOs and politicians who exploit and 
abuse us.]

In 2008, Obama seduced the world with “hope” and promises of a clean break from Bush's 
abuses. Now Obama is fielding 30,000 soldiers and more than 50,000 corporate mercenaries 
to expand the assault on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Over 130,000 troops and 130,000 
mercenaries remain in Iraq. Without mutiny in the ranks and pressure from mass resistance 
at home, Obama's word on exit strategy is as good as his promise to close Guantanamo by 
January 22—worthless.

In 2003, Bush bombed his way into Iraq, letting schools and libraries burn while troops 
secured the oil ministry. He occupied Iraq and Afghanistan for so long that the military 
implemented “stop-loss” to force soldiers to work past the end of their contracts. The war 
budget bankrupted the country. Young people were among the hardest hit at home on the 
battlefield and at home. Deteriorating public schools were neglected while college tuition 
skyrocketed and jobs grew scarce. Many youth turned to the military for college money and 
sham job training, only to be stop-lossed and traumatized by the horrors of war. It's 
Obama's war now and little has changed.

No doubt, Obama inherited a wrecked economy and the War on Terror. But he's turned his 
back on the change he convinced so many to believe in.

Obama is continuing Bush's policy of corporate resource imperialism in the Middle East and 
Central Asia, subsidizing the worst polluters while they drag the youth of the world into 
a future of endless wars and climate chaos. The $708 billion 2010 war budget is enough to 
fund nationwide free college education or to fund adaptation to the climate crisis in the 
Global South: droughts in Sub-Saharan Africa, Hurricane Katrina-style threats to Island 
nations. Military industry, fossil fuel companies, and bankers are thriving while the rest 
of us suffer the worst recession since the 1930s.

The recession is killing young people's prospects and military recruiters are circling 
like vultures. In the US, youth unemployment is at a record high 50%, with twice as many 
black youth as white youth unemployed. No options means a racist poverty draft. That's how 
recruiters are surpassing their quotas for the first time since the Viet Nam War. The only 
other time they came close to today's numbers was during the recession of the early 1980s.

Many US soldiers are trapped in the War on Terror and see no way?out other than suicide. 
160 in 2009, and 140 in 2008 took their own lives rather than kill for empire. The War on 
Terror has cost over 5300 US soldier's lives and over a million Iraqis, Afghans, and 
Pakistanis. But there is hope in work of Courage to Resist and Iraq Veterans Against the 
War, groups encouraging war resistance and defending the many soldiers who refuse to 
fight. It is our responsibility to match their courage with strategic resistance on campus 
and on the street until we stop this bad romance.

We'll see you in the Streets on March 19th and in the news as youth & student resistance 
builds in 2010.?

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