Comments on: The meanings of victory http://sfbayview.com/2008/the-meanings-of-victory/ Black liberation news and views Thu, 24 May 2012 07:13:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Alice Hammond http://sfbayview.com/2008/the-meanings-of-victory/comment-page-1/#comment-1234 Alice Hammond Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:41:06 +0000 http://www.sfbayview.com/?p=1185#comment-1234 Just reading these articles are a bite overwhelming, but we must continue to fight with every breath of our beingness. The struggles has been long and will continue and we must give because of all that was given to get us to this day. Little do I know, but I know we can't stop, solidarity Just reading these articles are a bite overwhelming, but we must continue to fight with every breath of our beingness. The struggles has been long and will continue and we must give because of all that was given to get us to this day. Little do I know, but I know we can’t stop, solidarity

]]> By: Annie Garrison http://sfbayview.com/2008/the-meanings-of-victory/comment-page-1/#comment-499 Annie Garrison Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:51:33 +0000 http://www.sfbayview.com/?p=1185#comment-499 I keep being overwhelmed as I sift through the institutional force of empire, including the will of the military industrial complex, surrounding Barack Obama, and realize that who is president is nowhere near as significant as the media makes the presidentiual race out to me. The American, and multinational, institutional force of empire is enormous, and in the making long before Barack Obama was born, and it's surrounding him now. As the president, surrounded by this much institutional force, Barack Obama is now way beyond most of us. I laughed as I told my network of Congolese student activists, committed to ending the ongoing African holocaust in Congo, that I was sending Barack Obama's Transition Team an e-mail to ask him not to appoint Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and to say that Hillary is the worst thing he could do to Congo, short of appointing the CEO of multinational uranium mining corporation, Uranium One. I knew how futile e-mailing Barack Obama's transition team was, even as I did so, but did it anyway, to share a joke with my new Congo friends. Grassroots pressure and concrete, strategic local action, more than protest, are the only hope I see for standing between Barack Obama and an ongoing African holocaust. I keep being overwhelmed as I sift through the institutional force of empire, including the will of the military industrial complex, surrounding Barack Obama, and realize that who is president is nowhere near as significant as the media makes the presidentiual race out to me.

The American, and multinational, institutional force of empire is enormous, and in the making long before Barack Obama was born, and it’s surrounding him now.

As the president, surrounded by this much institutional force, Barack Obama is now way beyond most of us. I laughed as I told my network of Congolese student activists, committed to ending the ongoing African holocaust in Congo, that I was sending Barack Obama’s Transition Team an e-mail to ask him not to appoint Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and to say that Hillary is the worst thing he could do to Congo, short of appointing the CEO of multinational uranium mining corporation, Uranium One. I knew how futile e-mailing Barack Obama’s transition team was, even as I did so, but did it anyway, to share a joke with my new Congo friends.

Grassroots pressure and concrete, strategic local action, more than protest, are the only hope I see for standing between Barack Obama and an ongoing African holocaust.

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