THERE WILL BE NO SEPARATE PEACE!

There will be no separate peace as long as children must toil for economic masters in order to eat. There will be no separate peace as long as sweatshops bind so many workers in extreme exploitation.

There will be no separate peace as long as our jobs are moved around the world to where the lowest wages possible can be enforced by the iron heel of state repression. There will be no separate peace as long as workers are being killed by the work they are forced to do in order to survive.

There will be no separate peace as long as huge powerful corporations can lock workers out of their jobs. We will not forget the workers at Kaiser Aluminum, A.E. Staley and so many other corporations around the world who find the doors to their jobs locked when they fight for what is right.

There will be no separate peace as long as super exploited workers, who cannot find work, or must work below a living wage, are forced by their conditions to leave their homes and seek work in far off lands, or are forced to flee from the repression that so often accompanies their efforts to try to improve their lives. Often these workers must face horrendous tribulations just to reach the land, which they believe has the work they seek. Once in the new land they are given the worst employment available and are treated by many as if they were some type of undesirable existence. In some lands the laws of the state declare them to be "illegal". There should never be any working person

declared "illegal". If I had my way the borders of the world would be open to all productive people and only closed to the spread of parasitic capitalism.

There will be no separate peace until every worker everywhere has the right to organize in his or her own self-interest. There will be no separate peace as long as millions of working people have little to show for their labor, while a greedy few have far more than they could ever hope to use.

There will be no separate peace as long as the poor are forced to live in despicable housing or walk homeless upon the earth, while the rich slumlords profit from human misery.

There will be no separate peace as long as police and/or armies prowl our communities in search of victims for their sadistic social control.

There will be no separate peace as long as there is a prison system based on profit and social control; as long as there are political and economic prisoners; as long as there are control unit prisons and the death penalty; as long as prisons are used to hide social problems.

There will be no separate peace as long as any race of humanity views itself as superior to the other races, as if the creation itself granted one race the divine right of supremacy.

There will be no separate peace as long as the eurocentric conquest of the Indigenous People of the world continues. This holocaust started long ago and has continued to this day without relief.

There will be no separate peace as long as women are forced into servitude to men: an economic, political, sexual, cultural bondage.

There will be no separate peace as long religion is used as a means of imperialism, where some churches accumulate power and wealth through the suppression of the right each to determine their own spirituality or whether they will subscribe to any spiritually at all.

There will be no separate peace as long as the old are discarded into scrap heaps like used up engine parts; nor as long as the young are kept "in their place" for no other reason than the desire of their "owners" to exercise social control

There will be no separate peace as long as our Mother Earth is being raped for corporate profit. There will be no separate peace as long as the Earth is seen as an exploitable resource, rather than as the provider of the well-being of all.

There will be no separate peace for any as long as there is oppression and exploitation of anyone anywhere, for even the little gains of some are always threatened as long as we live under a system where some benefit at the expense of others.

All things are connected. Our freedom and well-being is directly tied to the freedom and well-being of all others. The survival of any and of all is directly dependent upon the survival and well-being of our Mother Earth.

Though all of our struggles are connected, they are not a homogenized assimilation. Our power lies in the creativeness and wisdom found in our diversity. That power is most effective when we are able to create a balance between that diversity and our common needs; and a balance between our past, present and future. This is as true in the natural world as it is true among all humans. For it should be understood that humans are not above the natural world, but rather we are an integrated part of the natural world, as dependent upon it as any other life form.

When we arm ourselves with the true knowledge of who we are and the connections between all of us, we will then be able to create peace and well-being, not just for some, but for all of us. Then, and only then shall there be true peace.

In The Spirit Of Total Resistance

Arthur J. Miller