no complicity

update: new article on the egyptian people's resistance to mubarak's love affair with zionism in electronic intifada. ¡que viva la resistencia del pueblo!



an egyptian national burns his passport outside the egyptian embassy in beirut, 2 january. foto by matthew cassel, posted on electronic intifada.


i've been thinking a lot about complicity...

in argentina, the court system has yet to process decades-old cases against the majority of the country's dirty war criminals. just last month in fact, the courts were set to release alfredo astiz, one of the most notorious milicos from the esma, the largest of the ex-clandestine centers for detention and torture. he remains in custody (just barely) but the case against him is stalled despite mountains of evidence. 25 years after the formal end of the dirty war, and sectors of the state & civil society are still its active accomplices. it's been up to the popular organizations, the mothers and the recovered children of the disappeared, to call out this complicity with the dictadura & its legacy for what it is. in recent years that's taken the form of escraches, noisy protests that publicly identify these asesinos, exposing them to their neighbors & acquaintances, and shining a light on the blood they have on their hands. so they are not permitted to go about their daily lives as if nothing has happened, as if 30,000 people were not disappeared and 300,000 more were not exiled. perhaps the courts are too lazy & slow to hold these murderers and torturers accountable. but the people are not!




last week the egyptian embassies in yemen, syria, and lebanon were attacked in popular demonstrations as symbols of the mubarak dictatorship's hand-holding with the murderous israeli state. in addition to hosting tzipi livni a couple days before her government unleashed this ongoing massacre on the palestinians, the mubarak regime has maintained a sealed boarder with gaza, and has its troops positioned there ready to fire upon people whose desperate circumstances have forced them to flee. egyptians have come out to the streets in the thousands, facing police assaults and arrests at every turn, to express solidarity with the people of gaza, and to denounce mubarak directly for his complicity with the genocide mission against palestine.

for sure it's time to call out the collaborators, the vendidos, and the apologists. no business as usual!! no complicity with the imperialists or their puppets!

next gaza solidarity action in sf:

tomorrow
monday : january 5th
8am rain or shine
market & montgomery in sf


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and now for some relevant attaque...

resistiré : attaque 77

criminales disfrazados
seres sin razón ni piedad,
no hay palabras en el mundo
que describan vuestra maldad,
por dinero asesinás,
por placer aniquilás,
por poder nos destruís,
suciamente mentís.

aunque siempre vigilés
y mis datos procesés,
no es tan fácil hacerme callar,
resistiré,
resistiré hasta el fin
resistiré
resistiré hasta el fin...

nos hablás de sumisión,
nos pedís resignación,
pero no me dejaré engañar,
resistiré,
resistiré hasta el fin.
resistiré
resistiré hasta el fin.