{"article":{"id":127112,"heading":"Join the Virtual Sit-In against the MinuteMen","author":"SWARM the Minmutemen","created":"2005-05-25 19:19:46","modified":"2013-11-11 00:33:20","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:33:20","article":"

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SWARM the Minuntemen invites people from all over the world who oppose racist violence to

join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre action on May 27th, 28th and

29th, 2005 to engage in a virtual sit-in on the MinuteMen website during

their \"Unite to Fight\" Summit.

Read on for the Electronic Disturbance Theatre call to action.

\"Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.

I lift my lamp beside the golden door.\"

- “The New Colossus,” by the nineteenth-century American poet Emma

Lazarus inscribed on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.

Dear sisters and brothers,

Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) in solidarity with Swarm The

MinuteMen action will hold a 3 Day Virtual Sit-In starting on May 27th

to May 29th (2005) on the MinuteMen Project. We call on all you to join

us and let the MinuteMen Project know that hard borders are alien in an

age of global interdependence and to the ideals of liberty as a “golden

door” that is open to all. An ideal that so many have died trying to reach.

To Join The Virtual Sit-In On Starting on May 27th Click:

http:\/\/www.thing.net\/~rdom\/ecd\/ecd.html<\/a>

Why we must swarm the MinuteMen:

For Víctor Nicolás Sánchez, Adolfo Pérez Hernández, Daniel Barrientos,

Santos Orozco Aguilar, Raúl Hernández Soria, Sandra Edna Durán, Jesús

Medina Contreras, Edgar Venegas Brambila, José Gutiérrez, Melquíades

Gómez Baca, Martha Rivera

García...

Myth Number 1: Immigrants take jobs away from Americans.

Myth Number 2: Most immigrants are a drain on the U.S. economy or treasury

Myth Number 3: America is being overrun by immigrants.

Myth Number 4: Immigrants aren’t really interested in becoming part of

American society.

Myth Number 5: Immigrants contribute little to American society.

Facts to dispel to these myths from the American Immigration Lawyers

Association: http:\/\/www.aila.org\/contentViewer.aspx?bc=17<\/a>,142

We call on you sisters and brothers from all over the world who oppose

the MinuteMen Project and in the name of the 3,500 women, men and

children who have died crossing into “The Land of Liberty” since 1994 to

join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre action on May 27th, 28th and

29th, 2005 to engage in a Virtual Sit-In on the MinuteMen website during

their \"Unite to Fight\" Summit.

Who are the MinuteMen:

The MinuteMen are a non-governmental group of people vowing to patrol

the US\/Mexico border with guns in order to stop migrant people from

crossing the border. They represent an intensification of the trend of

violence towards migrant people and people of color that has increased

since 9\/11\/2001. While they claim that they are not violent, their very

use and display of deadly weapons is a violent act in itself. How can

guns be used to detain people without being violent? Already there have

been numerous reports of people being forced to lie on the ground by the

MinuteMen and being forced to have their pictures taken with MinuteMen

volunteers, recalling Abu Ghraib style dehumanization.

SWARM the MinuteMen Group Statement:

http:\/\/swarmtheminutemen.com\/<\/a>

While the MinuteMen publicly claim to be non-violent, we here at SWARM

know a different face of the MinuteMen. We've received numerous death

threats and threats of violence filled with racial slurs. We plan to

publicly release these soon to let everyone know the exact kind of

hatred the MinuteMen are acting as a lightning rod for, attracting it

and focusing it towards migrant people.

Just as important though, the MinuteMen are a clear result of the

violent, us-versus-them mentality promoted by the Bush administration.

We are intervening into and dancing with the communication systems of

the MinuteMen because along with the physical violence they are

creating, they are extremely conscious of the violent power their

messages have and they had any measure of success thanks to the

complicity the corporate media. Their communications are a critical part

of their mission to send a message to legislators that more

militarization of the border is necessary. Their images and words can't

be separated from the violence of their guns, and both must be stopped.

We refuse to support the United States government's attempts to find a

scapegoat to blame this country's problems on while it bankrupts our

social services, wages wars on the world, sends our brothers, sisters,

friends and neighbors to die and profits off of the whole plan. Who

stands to profit from a more militarized border? Will the same

corporations that made billions in government contracts off of the war

in Iraq like Halliburton and CACI be the same ones to profit from the

war on the border?

We must stand together now to say that this country is made up of

millions of people of many different ethnicities and cultures and that

is due to migration. Migrant people have human rights, regardless of the

government's and the racist's attempts to deny that fact. Until the

United States has a sane immigration policy that allows people to move

as freely as capital and goods do, we will continue to struggle.

Why should you join the Virtual Sit-In On May 27th 2005:

For Benito González Cruz, Benito González Serrano, Javier Rojas

Bracamonte, Juan José Romo Zetina, José Luis Garza, Roberto Acegueda

López, Román Robles Rojas, Reynaldo González Corona and the thousands of

other people who have been murdered for simply trying to cross the

border into what is now the United States and which was once Mexico.

Contact:

For any questions on the Electronic Disturbance Theater’s action in

solidarity with SWARM the MinuteMen contact

Ricardo Dominguez (co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater) at

rdom@thing.net<\/a>

Electronic Disturbance Theater

http:\/\/www.thing.net\/~rdom\/ecd\/ecd.html<\/a>

See our site for more info:

http:\/\/swarmtheminutemen.com<\/a>

or our mirror:

http:\/\/www.autistici.org\/swarmtheminutemen\/<\/a>

See our mirror sites to read our original content which our domain

registrar forced us to remove:

http:\/\/swarm.mahost.org\/<\/a>

http:\/\/www.thing.net\/~rdom\/ecd\/swarm\/index.php<\/a>



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SWARM the Minutemen Invita gente desde todo el mundo quien estan contra la violencia

racista a una el accion de Electronic Disturbance Theatre en el 27, 28 y

29 de Mayo, 2005 para un \"virtual sit-in\" el el sitio de web de los

MinuteMen durante sus conferencia de \"Unate para Pelear\".

Leer la llamada de accion de Electronic Disturbance Theatre:

Dadme vuestros exhaustos, vuestros pobres,

Vuestras muchedumbres que ansían respirar en libertad,

Los miserables deshechos de vuestras rebosantes orillas.

Mandadlos a todos, a los desamparados, encomendádmelos a mí.

Que yo levanto mi antorcha junto a la puerta dorada

\"The New Colossus,\" de Emma Lazarus, poetisa norteamericana del siglo

XIX, inscrito en una placa en la base de la Estatua de la Libertad.

Queridos hermanas y hermanos,

Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), en solidaridad con la acción

Swarm The MinuteMen, realizará una sentada virtual de 3 días los

próximos 27 al 29 de mayo (2005) contra el sitio de MinuteMen Project.

Convocamos a todos los interesados a unirse a nosotros para hacer saber

al MinuteMen Project que las fronteras infranqueables no pertenecen a la

era de la interdependencia global, ni a los ideales de libertad vista

como \"puerta dorada\" que está abierta a todos. Un ideal por cuya

consecución muchos han muerto.

Para unirse a la sentada virtual que comienza el 27 de mayo, clicar aquí:

http:\/\/www.thing.net\/~rdom\/ecd\/ecd.html<\/a>

Por qué debemos bloquear MinuteMen:

Por Víctor Nicolás Sánchez, Adolfo Pérez Hernández, Daniel Barrientos,

Santos Orozco Aguilar, Raúl Hernández Soria, Sandra Edna Durán, Jesús Medina

Contreras, Edgar Venegas Brambila, José Gutiérrez, Melquíades Gómez

Baca, Martha Rivera García...

Mito Nº1: Los inmigrantes quitan los puestos de trabajo a los

estadounidenses

Mito Nº2: Tantos inmigrantes consumen la economía de los Estados Unidos

Mito Nº3: Estados Unidos está saturado de inmigrantes

Mito Nº4: Los inmigrantes no están interesados de verdad en formar parte

de la sociedad estadounidense

Mito Nº5: Los inmigrantes apenas contribuyen a la sociedad estadounidense

-American Immigration Lawyers Association, leé aqui para ver porque

esos Mitos no estan verdad:

http:\/\/www.aila.org\/contentViewer.aspx?bc=17<\/a>,142



Convocamos a todos los hermanos y hermanas del mundo que se oponen al

Proyecto MinuteMen, y en nombre de los 3500 hombres, mujeres y niños que

han muerto, desde 1994, tratando de alcanzar \"La Tierra de la Libertad\",

a que os unáis a la acción del Electronic Disturbance Theatre los días

27, 28 y 29 de mayo de 2005, realizando una sentada virtual al web site

del proyecto MinuteMen durante la convocatoria \"Unite to Fight\"

Quiénes son MinuteMen:

MinuteMen es un grupo no gubernamental cuyos miembros patrullan armados

la frontera México\/Estados Unidos impidiendo el paso de inmigrantes.

Representan la intensificación de reacciones violentas contra los

inmigrantes y la gente de color que se ha producido después del 11 de

septiembre de 2001. Aunque proclaman no ser violentos, el mero hecho de

llevar y exhibir armas es un acto violento en sí mismo. Cómo no va a ser

violento detener a la gente a punta de pistola? De hecho se han

reportado numerosos casos de personas obligadas por los miembros de

MinuteMen a tumbarse en el suelo y a ser fotografiadas por los

voluntarios de MinuteMen, en el más puro estilo deshumanizante de Abu

Ghraib.

Informe de SWARM:

http:\/\/swarmtheminutemen.com\/<\/a>

Mientras MinuteMen proclama públicamente no ser violentos, nosotros en

SWARM conocemos su otra cara. Hemos recibido numerosas amenazas de

muerte y amenazas de violencia llenas de insultos racistas. Pensamos

publicar en breve estas amenazas para que todo el mundo sepa exactamente

cuánto odio están generando, atrayendo y difundiendo en MinuteMen

contra los inmigrantes.

Aunque sólo sea por eso, MinuteMen son el claro resultado de la

mentalidad violenta, de \"nosotros -contra-ellos\", que promueve la

administración Bush.

Vamos a intervenir en los sistemas de comunicación de MinuteMen porque

además de la violencia física que realizan, son extremadamente

conscientes del violento poder de sus mensajes, y saben hasta qué punto

tienen éxito gracias a la complicidad de los medios corporativos. Sus

comunicaciones son una parte crítica de su misión, el mensaje que envían

a los legisladores reclamando la necesidad de militarizar las fronteras.

No se pueden separar sus imágenes y sus palabras de la violencia de sus

armas de fuego, y ambas deben detenerse.

Nos negamos a apoyar los intentos del gobierno de los Estados Unidos de

encontrar un chivo expiatorio al que culpar de los problemas de este

país mientras lleva a la bancarrota nuestros servicios sociales,

emprende guerras por el mundo, envía a nuestros hermanos, hermanas,

amigos y vecinos a morir y se beneficia del plan al completo. ¿Quién

obtiene provecho de militarizar las fronteras? ¿Serán las mismas

corporaciones que obtienen billones en contratos con el gobierno gracias

a la guerra en Irak, como Halliburton y CACI.

Ahora debemos permanecer unidos para proclamar que este país se compone

de millones de personas de distintas etnias y culturas y que ello es

gracias a la inmigración. Los inmigrantes tienen derechos humanos, sean

cuales sean los del gobierno y los intentos racistas por negarlo. Hasta

que los Estados Unidos tengan una política de inmigración sana que

permita la movilidad de las personas igual que permite el libre

movimiento de bienes y capital, continuaremos luchando.

Por qué deberías unirte a la sentada virtual del 27 de mayo de 2005?

Por Benito González Cruz, Benito González Serrano, Javier Rojas

Bracamonte, Juan José Romo Zetina, José Luis Garza, Roberto Acegueda López,

Román Robles Rojas, Reynaldo González Coronav y los miles de personas

que han

sido asesinados por intentar cruzar la frontera de lo que ahora son los

Estados Unidos, pero que antes fue México.

Contacto:

Para cualquier pregunta sobre la acción del Electronic Disturbance

Theatre en solidaridad con SWARM the MinuteMen contacta con:

Ricardo Dominguez (cofundador del Electronic Disturbance Theater) a

través del e-amil: rdom@thing.net<\/a> rdom@thing.net>

Electronic Disturbance Theater

http:\/\/www.thing.net\/~rdom\/ecd\/ecd.html<\/a>

Ve nos sitio para mas informacíon:

http:\/\/swarmtheminutemen.com<\/a>

o nos espejo:

http:\/\/www.autistici.org\/swarmtheminutemen\/<\/a>

Ve nos espejos para leer nos palabras originales cual nuestra compania

de DNS forzónos quitar:

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I support the MinuteMen without question. you don't have to be a racist to love your country and want to protect it from foreign interests!","author":"Cathy Murphy","parent_id":127112,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-06-16 12:26:15","modified":"2005-06-16 12:26:15","fileurl":""},{"id":130196,"heading":"Left Wing Philosophers With Right Wing Bank Accounts","article":"Limousine Liberals!!!","author":"Richard Vasquez","parent_id":127112,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-06-23 10:33:36","modified":"2005-06-23 10:33:36","fileurl":""},{"id":131071,"heading":"Los Pandilleros de LA","article":"Douse them all with a flammable liquid and light a frickin match!","author":"Richard Vasquez","parent_id":127112,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-06-30 05:50:00","modified":"2005-06-30 05:50:00","fileurl":""},{"id":133342,"heading":"The Minutemen, Not a Left or Right Issue","article":"This project seems to have been quite successful. A CNN story stated \u201c The Border Patrol has acknowledged receiving 317 calls from Naco and Douglas, resulting in 846 arrests, but the agency will not say whether any of those calls came from project volunteers.\u201d From the Washington Times quoting one of the Minutemen organizers: \u201c Mr. Gilchrist noted that fewer than 5,000 illegal aliens will be apprehended this month by the U.S. Border Patrol in the Minuteman Project's 20-mile patrol area compared with 64,000 in April 2004 and 73,000 in April 2003.\u201d and \u201c The U.S. Border Patrol has acknowledged making hundreds of arrests after receiving calls from the area being patrolled by the Minuteman volunteers, but has not confirmed whether any of those calls came from the volunteers.\u201d The San Francisco Chronicle wrote \u201cAnd, according to the Border Patrol, the Mexican military is now actively helping illegal immigrants, including known drug runners, reach safer border-crossing points in order to avoid the Minutemen. No doubt this little citizen uprising didn't figure into the handbook on how to enter the U.S. illegally the Mexican government distributed to citizens last year.\u201d \r\nSo they proved it can be done. Yet our government tells us we can\u2019t secure our borders but plans to spend another 81 billion in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its primary job is to protect us and it is failing to do this both physically and economically. It is supposed to regulate business, not act as an accessory in flooding the country with cheap labor to drive down wages for higher profits. If a neighboring country is encouraging and abetting its citizens to break our laws, and those same citizens are sending home more money than that nation makes selling oil, its motives are plain. Yet our president agrees with Vicente Fox that the Minutemen are \u201cvigilantes\u201d and wants to implement a thinly-disguised amnesty program. Some state legislatures have voted to give illegal aliens in-state college tuition while denying that right to American citizens from other states. Others have passed laws allowing them to obtain driver\u2019s licenses. The matricula consular visa, an ID issued by the Mexican government, is starting to be accepted by banks as a form of identification necessary to open an account and obtain a mortgage loan, a direct violation of federal law. Meanwhile, over 3 million people around the world are on the waiting list for US visas. \r\nOur elected officials are acting in violation of their oath to uphold the laws of the country and are themselves encouraging and abetting illegal immigration by granting these privileges. There are three obvious benefits the federal government reaps from this. \r\n1) The influx of people will drive the housing market, one of the few industries that can\u2019t be completely outsourced. The federal government owns 42% of America\u2019s land, most of that in the western states. For example, they own 87% of Nevada. Las Vegas is expanding onto government land that was auctioned off to consortiums of homebuilders. The same thing is happening near Mesquite, NV, about 90 miles northeast of Vegas. Here's a specific example. \r\nAt this government site, http:\/\/propertydisposal.gsa.gov\/property , it shows land and other property the government is selling or has sold. Recently, lots A thru J just north of Mesquite were auctioned off. Lot J was 1250 acres. The government assigned a pre-auction fair market value of $335,000 to this parcel. The winning bid was $4.1 million. There are many other parcels around Vegas that have been sold with similar results, where the sales price was substantially more than the fair market value. There is currently another federal auction of land near Laughlin. Once that land gets sold for exorbitant amounts, it immediately inflates the value of that land and the surrounding land, etc., etc. The government will continue to sell off America to the highest bidder to help finance its overseas war on terror. Accepting the matricula visa as required identification to get loans will encourage this process.\r\n\r\n2) The special interests that fill campaign coffers are well served. Since labor costs make up on average 70% of the total cost of doing business, cheap labor makes for better profits. This means more independent contractors, less benefits for workers and more money for executives and shareholders. Of course lobbyists will then have more cash to spread around in Washington which will send more congressmen on free golf trips overseas.\r\n\r\n3) This flood of workers drives down wages and raises unemployment to create more poverty. More poverty brings more crime which helps to fill up the increasingly privatized prisons. This also creates a slave labor class that performs tasks for a fraction of the cost in free society. The joke of a drug war contributes even more inmates. And you can\u2019t have an all-volunteer army with full employment. The US birthrate alone can\u2019t provide enough cannon fodder for the new crusades in the Middle East.\r\n\r\nThe government, therefore, is just unwilling to change what benefits them. Corporations run the world and national borders have become nothing more than public relations. Many on the left take a generic liberal stance that it is racism driving those who would control our borders since the majority of illegal aliens come from Mexico. This issue is now beyond politics- it\u2019s a matter of survival of this country. We cannot continue to absorb Mexico\u2019s poverty at this alarming rate. Our leaders should have taken Vicente Fox and others to task long ago for their feeble efforts to improve the lives of poor Mexicans. Otherwise they will continue to use the US as the safety valve for the discontent of the impoverished. Mexico wins both ways - immigrants remit billions back home and as our population grows we import more of their oil. The current situation cannot stand. \r\n\r\n","author":"Kevin Quail","parent_id":127112,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-07-21 13:59:12","modified":"2013-11-11 00:35:05","fileurl":""},{"id":138774,"heading":"Further Proof Of My Previous Statement","article":"by Kevin Quail\r\n\r\n\r\nHere's an excerpt from a Chicago Tribune editorial, 10\/9\/05, entitled "Back To Immigration Reform", concerning some rules of the guest worker program legislation currently before Congress: \r\n\r\nAfter the first six years of work here- and proof of some English proficiency, additional security and criminal record checks, medical exam and registration in the armed forces- temporary workers could apply for permanent residency. \r\n\r\nThe average age of the current American population is 36. Mexico's is 24.93, Honduras-19.15, Dominican Republic-23.88, Nicaragua-20.56, etc. The average ages of the populations in Middle Eastern countries, where most terrorists come from, are even lower. The young people sucked across the border from Latin America will find themselves legitimized alright- legitimized to the point where they can serve in the US armed forces and participate in a prolonged ground war in the Middle East. ","author":"Kevin Quail","parent_id":127112,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-11-06 22:33:26","modified":"2005-11-06 22:33:26","fileurl":""}]}