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Some flamed out after a brief period of frantic busyness; others moved on to different lives and nice-paying gigs.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003Eby\u0026nbsp;Andy Piascik\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003ESuddenly Staughton Lynd is all the rage. Again. In the last several years, Lynd has published a number of new books as well as new editions of classics such as Rank and File, plus a memoir co-authored with his wife Alice. In addition, two books about his life as an activist have been published, one on the years through 1970 by educator Carl Mirra (The Admirable Radical: Staughton Lynd and Cold War Dissent, 1945-1970) and another about his work since 1970 by historians Mark Weber and Stephen Paschen, Side by Side: Alice and Staughton Lynd, the Ohio Years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEioptbkuM-ATQ3RVowA7i0s_mQRI7-F1TL87uli0TG118UGvxgKmiIJRKuCh7-JDera52AQlqz7yDWhtFe9FsactnGCKHSTr7lE0g76zFR0AL3bM9SxqEDahGkjBd36ssDo1qO738zjwlmALA0tNybarMSa-LSEky2cV6PyPfWZeADgL4IQJKjzg5Le\/s640\/s-lynd.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"418\" data-original-width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEioptbkuM-ATQ3RVowA7i0s_mQRI7-F1TL87uli0TG118UGvxgKmiIJRKuCh7-JDera52AQlqz7yDWhtFe9FsactnGCKHSTr7lE0g76zFR0AL3bM9SxqEDahGkjBd36ssDo1qO738zjwlmALA0tNybarMSa-LSEky2cV6PyPfWZeADgL4IQJKjzg5Le\/s16000\/s-lynd.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;\"\u003EStaughton Craig Lynd was an American political activist, author, and lawyer, who passed away recently [File Photo: Special Arrangement]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; In an epoch of imperial hubris and corporate class warfare on steroids, a Lynd revival could hardly have come at a better time. Soldier, coal miner, Sixties veteran, recent college graduate – there’s much to be gained by all from a study of Lynd’s life and work. In so doing, it’s inspiring to discover how frequently he was in the right place at the right time and, more importantly, on the right side.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EMississippi\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EDuring the tumultuous summer of 1964, Lynd was invited to coordinate the Freedom Schools established in Mississippi by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The schools were an integral part of the Herculean effort to end apartheid in the United States and became models for alternative schools everywhere. That August, Lynd supported the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) at the Democratic Party convention. Led by Fannie Lou Hamer and Bob Moses, the MFDP had earned the right to represent their state with their blood and their extraordinary courage. Instead the party hierarchy supported the official, illegal delegation, a pathetic band of reactionaries who – the irony is too delicious – supported not the candidate of their own party Lyndon Johnson but his opponent and their ostensible enemy, Republican Barry Goldwater, for president. This back-stabbing was carried out by liberal icons Hubert Humphrey, Walter Reuther and Walter Mondale and endorsed, alas, by Reverend Martin Luther King.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EVietnam\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EIn early 1965, Lynd spoke at Carnegie Hall in one of the first events organized in opposition to the U.S.\u0026nbsp; invasion of Vietnam . A short time later, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) asked him to chair the first national demonstration against the war, where he was again a keynote speaker. That April 17, a crowd of 25,000 that was five times larger than even the most optimistic organizers had anticipated turned out in Washington, and what would become the largest anti-war movement in US history was born.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EThat summer, Lynd helped organize the Assembly of Unrepresented People in Washington. Timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the murder of tens of thousands of civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the gathering also included a rally at the White House where peace with the people of Vietnam was declared. Lynd has recalled the bemusement with which the relatively small band of demonstrators was received by those charged with protecting the government from its people. In reply, he told a military police officer that they were the first of what would eventually be millions, a statement that sooner than anyone could imagine proved prophetic. By 1967, a majority of people in the U.S. had declared peace with Vietnam.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EMovement Contributions\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Lynd would continue as one of the seminal figures of the 1960’s. He was both a tireless organizer and the author of numerous articles in important movement publications like Liberation, Radical America, the Guardian and Studies on the Left. With Michael Ferber, he documented the movement against the military draft in The Resistance, one of the best books about Sixties organizing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Lynd was an enthusiastic supporter of the New Left and embraced precepts like participatory democracy and decentralization. Ex-radicals of his generation like Irving Howe, Bayard Rustin and Michael Harrington, by contrast, spent much of the Sixties attacking SNCC and SDS. He spoke for many when he mocked their enthusiasm for Johnson and the Democrats as “coalition with the Marines.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EThis, too, proved uncannily prophetic. Within a year of being elected in 1964, Johnson 1.) ordered a massive escalation in Vietnam; 2.) sent an invasion force to the Dominican Republic to support military thugs who had overthrown a democratically elected government; and 3.) armed and funded an incredibly violent coup in Indonesia\u0026nbsp; in which over a million people were killed. The Peace Candidate indeed.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EBlacklisted From Academia and Beyond\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; At the end of 1965, Lynd made a fateful trip to Hanoi where he witnessed the carnage inflicted by US bombers. Up to that point, he was one of the most promising new scholars in the country. Upon his return, however, his career in academia was essentially at an end. A tenure track position at Yale suddenly disappeared. Department heads at other universities enthusiastically offered teaching positions, only to be overruled by higher-ups.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Lynd never looked back. He became an accomplished scholar outside the academy and one of the most perceptive and prolific chroniclers of “history from below,” with a special interest in working class organizing. From a series of interviews, he and Alice produced the groundbreaking book Rank and File, which begat the Academy Award-nominated documentary film Union Maids.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EYoungstown\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003ELynd moved to Ohio in 1976, became an attorney and, when the mills in Youngstown began to close, assisted steelworkers in an unsuccessful attempt to take them over. In a book he wrote about the effort, The Fight Against Shutdowns: Youngstown’s Steel Mill Closings, Lynd explored the biggest little secret of all, one that people everywhere would do well to heed: We who do the work can build a better world, and we can best do it without the parasitic Super Rich who contribute nothing and weigh us down like a monstrous ball and chain.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EToday\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Lynd is eighty-six now. The step is slower and his eyesight isn’t the best. Ten years ago he had open heart surgery – “an affair of the heart,” he calls it. “My cardiac surgeon said I came as close to becoming permanently horizontal as one can come without actually doing so.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; He talks of how deeply he misses dear friend Howard Zinn. He recalls driving through Mississippi late at night, hopelessly lost, just days after civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner had been abducted and murdered. He talks of his remarkable life’s work with great humility and not at all wistfully, but in search of lessons it might hold, especially for the young. A teacher extraordinaire, he is guided by the principle that a teacher is also a student and all students teachers. And he writes and writes, as prolifically as ever, one book after another as well as articles and book reviews for Z, Counterpunch, the Industrial Worker and numerous other periodicals and websites.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Lynd has seen more than his share of colleagues come and go. Some flamed out after a brief period of frantic busyness; others moved on to different lives and nice-paying gigs. Still going strong, Lynd offers long-term commitment (“long distance running,” as he calls it) and accompaniment – professionals living alongside workers and the unrepresented and contributing much-needed skills to the struggle for freedom, all the while walking side by side as equals – as alternatives. He also believes as passionately as ever that a better world is indeed possible.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003EAndy Piascik is a long-time activist and award-winning author who writes for The Indypendent, Counterpunch, Znet and many other websites and publications. His most recent book is the novel In Motion.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/feeds\/2373839383599831909\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment\/fullpage\/post\/2468613367801394261\/2373839383599831909?isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/2373839383599831909"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/2373839383599831909"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/2022\/11\/forever-young-staughton-lynd.html","title":"Forever Young: Staughton Lynd"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEioptbkuM-ATQ3RVowA7i0s_mQRI7-F1TL87uli0TG118UGvxgKmiIJRKuCh7-JDera52AQlqz7yDWhtFe9FsactnGCKHSTr7lE0g76zFR0AL3bM9SxqEDahGkjBd36ssDo1qO738zjwlmALA0tNybarMSa-LSEky2cV6PyPfWZeADgL4IQJKjzg5Le\/s72-c\/s-lynd.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-8130743039154695376"},"published":{"$t":"2021-02-09T12:13:00.002+05:30"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-09T12:13:14.872+05:30"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Andy Piascik"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"feature"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"History"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Trouble in the Connecticut Suburbs: Revolutionary Road"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cb\u003ENot so much as we might think has changed and that’s why Revolutionary Road is still powerful and relevant. Parts of Fairfield County are wealthier than ever, yet unhappiness, perhaps especially among the young, is an ongoing problem.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003Eby Andy Piascik\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Connecticut’s Fairfield County has for many years been a place of contrasts. It has cities that, even in their bustling heydays, were places where poverty and defeat lived amidst booming factories. It has also historically been a place where both the fairly well-to-do and the richest of the rich live in towns that, beginning in the 1940s, came to be known as suburbs. Both the industrial cities and the green suburbs of Fairfield County have been the subject of much literature, and Richard Yates’s 1961 Revolutionary Road is one of the best and best-known novels about the latter.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhv2YLHbMx0s6BITCP7hfC7anB-Tia9P6bvaJZa_19bPUXnGddLI1Bvg_YBtos80ug6hgt8EjiPY86Ty-mxS4rkyrN7_h42D2dw3lmaHqAOYImtR0zkzRGjD4DL-O_GvYpcEzqlDD3WnFc\/s640\/revrdbeach-cl.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"416\" data-original-width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhv2YLHbMx0s6BITCP7hfC7anB-Tia9P6bvaJZa_19bPUXnGddLI1Bvg_YBtos80ug6hgt8EjiPY86Ty-mxS4rkyrN7_h42D2dw3lmaHqAOYImtR0zkzRGjD4DL-O_GvYpcEzqlDD3WnFc\/s16000\/revrdbeach-cl.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; The novel is set in 1955 and is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a couple with two children who live on Revolutionary Road in a moderately upscale Fairfield County town. Frank commutes by train five mornings a week to Manhattan, where he is employed as a salesman at Knox Business Machines. While he is paid well enough to afford a lovely home (April is a stay-at-home mom), Frank hates his job, feels diminished by it and never passes up an opportunity to make fun of it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; At first, Frank and April are drawn to living in a nice house on a tree-lined street. Before very long, however, they fall into regularly making fun of their neighbors. They come to see there is something hollow at the core of the suburban dream. It becomes important to both of them to believe that they are better than their surroundings, and also to believe their coming to live on Revolutionary Road was a twist of fate they had no control over.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EParis\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Both Wheelers had previously lived for an extended period in Manhattan, Frank in Greenwich Village no less, in an apartment where the two of them enjoyed many good times in the early years of their relationship. That experience in the capitol of American bohemia informs the contempt they develop for their suburban town, and out of their unhappiness comes April’s idea that they move to Paris so Frank can “find himself.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Their neighbors and Frank’s colleagues at Knox greet the Paris idea with shock, skepticism and not a small bit of resentment. The resentment is not so much over the possible loss of friends and a co-worker but over the fact that the Wheelers, in proposing to chuck it all, make clear what they all seem to know: their well-constructed lives in the comfortable Connecticut suburbs have not produced happiness.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EA Kindred Spirit Who’s Institutionalized\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; There is, for example, Shep Campbell. Campbell and his wife Milly are the Wheelers’ best friends and they echo the jokes the Wheelers make about their other neighbors and their surroundings. The Campbells have made their peace with their lot, though, even as Shep lusts after April and is completely unable to connect with his four television-obsessed young sons. It is only from John Givings, the insane, institutionalized son of local busybody Helen Givings, that the Wheelers receive affirmation for their plan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Frank is never as enthusiastic about Paris as April. He seems aware in a way she is not, or at least is unwilling to accept, that he has “found himself” and what he is is a salesman at Knox Business Machines. Events soon cause the Paris plan to unravel, heated arguments and recriminations ensue followed, ultimately, by tragedy.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003ENo Escape From Unhappiness\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; The Connecticut suburbs play a crucial role in Revolutionary Road. As they were then and in many ways remain today, any number of Fairfield County towns are held up as the ultimate badge of success for an upper level professional family. They are places where problems are supposed to be absent or at least easily solve-able. While it’s likely no one ever believed that to be the case, the toll unhappiness takes is greater because of the promise.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; At the same time, Revolutionary Road is not only about the empty promises of happiness in the Connecticut suburbs. It is easy to imagine similar dramas such as the Wheelers’ taking place in Greenwich Village; easy to imagine because they happen there all the time. Yates seems equally to be getting at something bigger about the emptiness of life in the United States at the moment it had attained, within its very real self-defined limits, the best for the most. Fairfield County represents all that the country as a whole aspired to be in the 1950s, and the people in Revolutionary Road who live there find it is seriously lacking.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Not so much as we might think has changed and that’s why Revolutionary Road is still powerful and relevant. Parts of Fairfield County are wealthier than ever, yet unhappiness, perhaps especially among the young, is an ongoing problem. While those problems are not on the scale of young people in Connecticut’s poorest cities, problems that are often questions of life and death, they remain a blight on the American Dream.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EOther novels of the time set in Fairfield County cover similar ground, most notably Sloan Wilson’s The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and Laura Hobson’s Gentlemen’s Agreement. What distinguishes Revolutionary Road is that it ends in tragedy and defeat. There is no uplifting finale, not even a small whiff of overcoming all the trouble and turmoil, just defeat and death. It is perhaps for that reason that neither the novel or the 2008 film adaptation that starred Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, no less, were well-received.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003EBridgeport native Andy Piascik is a long-time activist and award-winning author whose most recent book is the novel In Motion.\u0026nbsp; He can be reached at andypiascik@aol.com.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/feeds\/8130743039154695376\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment\/fullpage\/post\/2468613367801394261\/8130743039154695376?isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/8130743039154695376"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/8130743039154695376"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/2021\/02\/trouble-in-connecticut-suburbs.html","title":"Trouble in the Connecticut Suburbs: Revolutionary Road"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhv2YLHbMx0s6BITCP7hfC7anB-Tia9P6bvaJZa_19bPUXnGddLI1Bvg_YBtos80ug6hgt8EjiPY86Ty-mxS4rkyrN7_h42D2dw3lmaHqAOYImtR0zkzRGjD4DL-O_GvYpcEzqlDD3WnFc\/s72-c\/revrdbeach-cl.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-4200906157850178060"},"published":{"$t":"2020-12-16T12:45:00.001+05:30"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-12-16T12:45:32.589+05:30"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Andy Piascik"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"feature"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"World View"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":" Mutual Aid in 2020"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cb\u003EMutual aid is in direct contrast to charity. Charity is carried out by the better-off who believe they know what’s best for those in need, with no recognition that injustice is the essence of a society like ours.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003Eby Andy Piascik\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Mutual aid has been around a long time. For many people who practice mutual aid, it is not known by that name. Rather, it is simply a common sense activity essential to the survival of human communities. When you see members of your village or tribe or city or even a faraway community suffering because of a lack of food or health care or shelter, you do what you can to provide them with whatever it is they need.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiNx7mGOLDmD32dq49mg3OdudetKdg_TqeWCHumBNQ4oFB8ic8Cr6sKhF5JkAuBh6aSHdD5Ih8CKTT65zUPHY5vaJR390XlPGI2GTdQdmePNdndAOs_BK2_GrkQMB7ItTUCU9fgYKzM_3c\/s640\/girl-sticking-aid.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"426\" data-original-width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiNx7mGOLDmD32dq49mg3OdudetKdg_TqeWCHumBNQ4oFB8ic8Cr6sKhF5JkAuBh6aSHdD5Ih8CKTT65zUPHY5vaJR390XlPGI2GTdQdmePNdndAOs_BK2_GrkQMB7ItTUCU9fgYKzM_3c\/s16000\/girl-sticking-aid.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Through such practices, people come to see mutual aid as a better way to organize collective life than the hierarchical societies most of the world lives in. For some, mutual aid puts into practice the precept that “I am my brother and sister’s keeper.” For others, the labor ideal of “an injury to one is an injury to all” applies. Whatever the inspiration, mutual aid serves as an alternative to social organization where most power rests in the hands of a small number of people and where profits, self-interest and the accumulation of wealth are propagated as the highest goals to which one can aspire.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Mutual aid is in direct contrast to charity. Charity is carried out by the better-off who believe they know what’s best for those in need, with no recognition that injustice is the essence of a society like ours. Charity is doled out by people who have no interest in transforming society and charitable organizations operate to keep people powerless and dependent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Black Panthers\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Mutual aid has manifested itself in many ways throughout the history of this country. The work of the Black Panthers in the 1960s is one example. Based on their experiences and the expressed needs of Black people, the Panthers established a broad spectrum of community survival programs in cities throughout the country. The Free Breakfast for Children program is the best-known and thousands of children from poor families were served free breakfast, in some cases for years. In response to requests from the people, the Panthers also established mobile health clinics that provided testing and treatment for a wide array of health problems as well as schools for people of all ages with classes on subjects ranging from basic literacy to African-American history. Over time, new people became involved in these activities and initiated new ones.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EFood Not Bombs\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Another mutual aid organization in the United States that dates to the 1970s is Food Not Bombs. The idea is a simple one: provide healthy meals to hungry people. To do so, a core of people set up outdoors soup kitchens in a park or common area in cities and towns around the country. Food was collected from stores and individuals, and volunteers set up a basic cooking operation at a set time and place. Once a regular schedule is established, as many as several hundred hungry people come to eat once and sometimes twice a day. Vegetarian food was served to encourage better health and living harmoniously within the natural world. And naming the effort Food Not Bombs underscored that the meals were being provided in a society whose priorities were seriously askew, one where trillions of dollars are spent on weaponry while millions go hungry for lack of work and government assistance.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EBridgeport Mutual Aid\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an increase in mutual aid activity and organizations. In Bridgeport, Connecticut where I live, a dozen or so people came together in March of 2020 to form Bridgeport Mutual Aid (BMA). A large percentage of Bridgeport’s residents are poor and many others who are not categorized as such were nonetheless struggling even before the pandemic. Their situations became more precarious when the state ordered many businesses to close, jobs were lost and people were advised not to socialize even with relatives living nearby. The elderly who are most vulnerable found themselves cut off from their usual social network of sons and daughters and grandchildren. When Bridgeport officials also suspended the city’s bus service, those without cars found it much more difficult to shop for groceries and other essentials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; BMA decided to provide food and other items like toilet paper, diapers and sanitary napkins to as many of those in need as possible. Most members had contacts of all kinds throughout the city, especially in poor and working class neighborhoods, and drew on those contacts to spread the word about the project. Because of social distancing requirements and restrictions on travel, a decision was made to deliver the food since it was too dangerous to set up a central gathering place for people to come and pick up whatever they needed.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Since the Spring, BMA members have gathered four afternoons a week. The cars of those making deliveries are loaded, updated lists that include the names and addresses of the newest recipients are printed, and people disperse throughout the city to bring a large box of goods to each household on the list. Members make about 20-25 deliveries each and several hundred people receive groceries and other goods on those four days.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Anyone who requests aid gets it. New people have joined the effort and stores and retailers contribute food and other goods. Supporters contribute money that is used to buy any items that aren’t contributed and BMA also secured a small grant. People work whenever they can, whether it’s four times a week every week or once every four weeks. BMA members belong to the Bridgeport chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America and other organizations and participate in the work those and other groups in the area are doing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; One prime example of organizational overlap occurred in June when activists working to end police brutality established an encampment in front of police headquarters for ten days and nights. BMA folks have also been involved in the organizing against police brutality so it was only natural that BMA participated in both the encampment and in making sure the 50 or so people who were camping out every night had sufficient food. BMA members also helped to ensure that the encampment included portable bathrooms, a first aid tent, a library and entry points where face masks were given to anyone not wearing one.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; BMA hopes to expand as the advent of colder weather makes it more difficult for people to travel. COVID cases are on the rise in Bridgeport and health experts are warning about the possibility of very dramatic increases if no significant preventive measures are taken by the federal government. With some experts warning of a winter that will be the worst of our lives, it’s possible stores and other businesses will again close down in which case the work of BMA will become more important.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EExpanding the Circle\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003ESome food recipients have become BMA members, expanding the circle. New members without activist experience have in this way gotten to know people and organizations working on other important issues like rent relief and police brutality that they did not previously know about. The circle expands further when they tell friends, family members and neighbors about BMA and these other organizations and their projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EBMA’s work is one small example of mutual aid activities happening all around the country. The need for such efforts grows as ruling elites increasingly show themselves to be completely opposed to the needs of the people. Mutual aid can take whatever form people in a particular place decide.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EThe practice of mutual aid is antithetical to the predominant social ideology put forward by ruling elites. The idea of a society where people look out for each other is ridiculed at every turn by those who see profits and empire as the highest callings in life. We in this society are bombarded from birth by propaganda that everyone is an isolated individual in competition with every other isolated individual. People know both from their own experience and intuitively that that is wrong, though it is sometimes difficult to know how to live otherwise and then to have the ability to do so. Mutual aid efforts are one piece of how it can be done.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EIn a society as highly individualistic and atomized as ours where there is often little organizational support for mutual aid projects, such projects are often initiated by people with some degree of collective activist experience. It is one form of political participation among many in the larger effort to create a society based on human and planetary needs. Most everyone in BMA also attends demonstrations, protests, lobbying efforts and meetings of all kinds to pressure institutions of power to act to meet human needs until such time as those institutions can be reformed or done away with.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EHuman freedom will come about only when people on a massive scale come to see their own actions as central to such efforts and act accordingly. Alongside of and in combination with the essential work of Black Lives Matter and others organizing in workplaces, campuses, prisons and communities everywhere, mutual aid activities help create the possibility for both large-scale participation in all aspects of social life as well as our collective liberation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EAndy Piascik is an award-winning author whose most recent book is the novel In Motion. He can be reached at andypiascik@aol.com.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/feeds\/4200906157850178060\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment\/fullpage\/post\/2468613367801394261\/4200906157850178060?isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/4200906157850178060"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/4200906157850178060"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/2020\/12\/mutual-aid-in-2020.html","title":" Mutual Aid in 2020"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiNx7mGOLDmD32dq49mg3OdudetKdg_TqeWCHumBNQ4oFB8ic8Cr6sKhF5JkAuBh6aSHdD5Ih8CKTT65zUPHY5vaJR390XlPGI2GTdQdmePNdndAOs_BK2_GrkQMB7ItTUCU9fgYKzM_3c\/s72-c\/girl-sticking-aid.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-7657124857677962571"},"published":{"$t":"2020-09-05T09:42:00.000+05:30"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-09-05T09:42:05.820+05:30"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Andy Piascik"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"feature"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"History"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Connecticut Man Who Led a Plot to Overthrow Franklin Roosevelt"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003EThe plan would render Roosevelt a figurehead and accounts vary as to whether Butler or someone else would be installed as the nation’s leader.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003Eby Andy Piascik\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn 1933, retired Marine Corps General Smedley Butler was visited at his Pennsylvania home by individuals virulently opposed to newly elected President Franklin Roosevelt. Butler himself was an enthusiastic supporter of Roosevelt and he took the meetings only because the visitors had told him the purpose was to discuss upcoming American Legion elections. He was one of the best-known military men in the country and had a unique reputation for being popular with everyday soldiers. Unbeknownst to Butler, it was that reputation that brought the visitors to his doorstep.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E Gerald MacGuire\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAmong the visitors was Gerald MacGuire, the Legion’s Connecticut commander. MacGuire was born in Rhode Island on May 10, 1897, served in the First World War, settled afterwards in Darien and was employed at a prominent Wall Street brokerage house. He and many of the moneyed men he worked with were alarmed at Roosevelt’s proposed policies. As the meeting progressed, Butler grew suspicious of MacGuire, especially when MacGuire said he had large sums of money at his disposal to bankroll a run by Butler for the Legion’s top post, and decided to play his visitors along in order to learn more about their plans.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"471\" data-original-width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj2mbMuj6m0p487N56zdWnrFVgh8fPNIPysVc8Jvx0ZxA2Ot3m-UVRyLfW-NZIF9neNb1vQZUDjLA7eeI1LGGwlOSg-gvn4Yatq82T-DRpPz4N-rWxdmF-z85Wb2HN9_w9P2NAQtv_ydmk\/s1600\/Gerald_Mc.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn the meantime, MacGuire travelled to Italy and Germany in early 1934 to study how veterans’ groups helped the fascists come to power in those countries. When he returned, he finally told Butler the whole story: very wealthy, powerful men had made three million dollars available to him, with much more to come, to organize a coup against Roosevelt. The American Legion would be the 500,000-strong vehicle and they wanted Butler to lead it.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe plan would render Roosevelt a figurehead and accounts vary as to whether Butler or someone else would be installed as the nation’s leader. General Joseph MacArthur and Brigadier General Hugh Johnson, head of the National Recovery Administration, were also apparently under consideration. That Johnson was considered seems odd given that Roosevelt had just appointed him to head the NRA, but Johnson was an enthusiastic admirer of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini whose vision of the proposed New Deal was essentially that of a corporate, fascist state.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EThomas Lamont, the du Ponts and Others\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nBesides MacGuire, Butler met with Robert Clark, an heir to the Singer Sewing Machine Company.  Clark confirmed MacGuire’s proposal and named other plotters who would soon form the Liberty League: executives from the duPont Corporation including Irene du Pont; associates of J.P. Morgan including one-time Democratic Vice Presidential candidate John Davis and Thomas Lamont, great-grandfather of Connecticut's current governor; Al Smith, the Democratic Presidential candidate in 1928 who ran with Davis; Grayson Murphy, MacGuire’s boss and a director of Goodyear Tire, Anaconda Copper and Bethlehem Steel; and other business and military figures, diplomats and politicians. Weapons and ammunition would be supplied by the Bridgeport-based, DuPont-owned Remington Arms. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nButler told of the plot to Paul Comly French, a reporter for the Philadelphia Record.  When contacted by French, MacGuire spoke openly of his desire for a fascist America and steered the reporter to some of his associates. French wrote an expose that was published in both the Record and the New York Post. Butler, meanwhile, finally told MacGuire his true feelings: “If you get 500,000 soldiers advocating anything smelling of Fascism, I am going to get 500,000 more and lick the hell out of you, and we will have a real war right at home.”\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ECongressional Hearings\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nButler told what he knew to various government officials, and Congressional hearings were held in 1934, featuring Butler testifying for many hours. All of those who Butler named as being involved vehemently denied the charge, including MacGuire.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn part because of a lack of concrete evidence, no charges were brought. Roosevelt intervened to essentially suppress the transcript records of some of Butler’s most damning testimony. Several accounts speculate Roosevelt did so out of fear that an already divided nation would grow still more divided if the full story of the Business Plot, as it became known, was made public.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nMacGuire died suddenly in Connecticut of pneumonia  on March 25, 1935 shortly after the hearings. Catapulted to national fame, Butler became even more famous when he wrote War is a Racket a short time later. In the book, he said of his years as a military man that “I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business … a gangster for capitalism” who “might have given Al Capone a few hints.”\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nHailed by many as a hero for exposing the plot, Butler died in 1940. The story of the Business Plot has been the subject of documentaries, television programs and a BBC Radio documentary that implicated another prominent Connecticut man: Prescott Bush, a Wall Street executive living in Greenwich who later was a U.S. Senator from the Nutmeg State and whose son and grandson both served as President of the United States. Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone announced in 2000 that he was planning to make a feature film about the Business Plot but those plans were eventually scrapped. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003EBridgeport native Andy Piascik is a long-time activist and award-winning author whose most recent book is the novel In Motion.  He can be reached at andypiascik@yahoo.com. \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/feeds\/7657124857677962571\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment\/fullpage\/post\/2468613367801394261\/7657124857677962571?isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/7657124857677962571"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/7657124857677962571"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/2020\/09\/the-connecticut-man-who-led-plot-to.html","title":"The Connecticut Man Who Led a Plot to Overthrow Franklin Roosevelt"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj2mbMuj6m0p487N56zdWnrFVgh8fPNIPysVc8Jvx0ZxA2Ot3m-UVRyLfW-NZIF9neNb1vQZUDjLA7eeI1LGGwlOSg-gvn4Yatq82T-DRpPz4N-rWxdmF-z85Wb2HN9_w9P2NAQtv_ydmk\/s72-c\/Gerald_Mc.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-742250920999046708"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-31T13:43:00.000+05:30"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-31T16:07:21.882+05:30"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Andy Piascik"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"History"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jimmy Piersall"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"sports"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"USA"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Baseball’s Jimmy Piersall and His Public Struggle With Mental Illness"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003EPiersall made a remarkable recovery and quickly revived his baseball career. He became the starting centerfielder for Boston in 1953 and was named to play in the All-Star Game in 1954 for the first of two occasions.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003Eby Andy Piascik\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIf Jimmy Piersall accomplished nothing else in his long, colorful life, he certainly did a great deal to draw attention to the issue of mental illness. Because he was a major league baseball player, his battles became very public in ways that were undoubtedly quite painful for him. He struggled on, documented his illness and the impact it had on his life in a best-selling book he wrote when he was just 25 years of age, and went on to several careers after baseball.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"445\" data-original-width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgU_uJ5yoUsH3i5L_rZKG4UO050hYXEl1q1PjTvaQZEw5bZsmxx1IzYUygsLhwx7y68sI8onv0ONjc_P9CHx2ui4bnqhqHrC_1QuhlegW1ahbmAzwShR5bhIXiUhOk1RnTwsbtvPUKQSmM\/s1600\/Jim_Pie.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #999999;\"\u003EJimmy Piersall\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nPiersall was not the easiest person to be around. He was prone to vicious outbursts that were often aimed at complete strangers and that were often in response to things of no consequence. Such behavior was not confined to the time when he was often cruelly taunted on major league baseball fields, either, but persisted deep into his long life.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nHis inappropriate behavior notwithstanding, Piersall should be viewed first and foremost as someone who struggled with illness, did so in a very public way, and persevered for 65 years from the time of a public breakdown to his death. The world in which his troubles became public was very different from our own. It may not be accurate to say Piersall was the first person to struggle in such a public way with issues the general population either didn’t know about, didn’t want to know about or else or had a superficial understanding of,  but it wouldn’t be far from the truth, either. Whatever his flaws, he did the world a great service for that alone.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EEarly Life\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nPiersall was born in Waterbury on November 14, 1929. He was an outstanding athlete from a young age and starred in baseball and basketball at Leavenworth High School, leading the basketball team to the New England championship in 1947. During much of his early life, his mother battled mental illness and was a regular inpatient in psychiatric hospitals. Piersall was a serious, introspective youth and his family’s descent into poverty after the 1929 stock market crash troubled him greatly and undoubtedly impacted his mental health.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nPiersall was signed to a contract by the Boston Red Sox in 1948 and played his first major league baseball game in 1950 at the age of 20. After displaying increasingly erratic behavior for a period of months, Piersall suffered a serious breakdown in 1952. He spent time in a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts, where he was diagnosed as manic depressive and treated with electric shock therapy. He was also prescribed lithium and took it for most all of the rest of his life.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EFear Strikes Out\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nPiersall made a remarkable recovery and quickly revived his baseball career. He became the starting centerfielder for Boston in 1953 and was named to play in the All-Star Game in 1954 for the first of two occasions. He also began working on a book about his ordeal, Fear Strikes Out, that he coauthored with Al Hirschfeld and that was published in 1955. The story was made into a television drama as an episode of the anthology show Climax! a short time later with Tab Hunter playing Piersall.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTwo years after the release of the book, a Hollywood movie version of Piersall’s story was made. Also called Fear Strikes Out, the movie featured Anthony Perkins as Piersall and Karl Malden as his father John Piersall. Though Piersall has written that he did not much like the film, it was successful and well-received and remains a staple on television channels that feature old-time movies.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhatever its flaws, the movie was a fairly powerful depiction of a young man struggling with mental illness that was likely seen by hundreds of thousands at the time of its release and many more over the decades on television. Though any number of movies prior to Fear Strikes Out included characters with serious psychological problems, they overwhelmingly were superficial and\/or violent, unsympathetic criminals like James Cagney’s over-the-top performance in 1949’s White Heat. Unlike pretty much any mentally ill movie character prior to the 1957 movie, Perkins as Piersall is depicted sympathetically. Scenes like his breakdown during a game remain quite powerful 60+ years later even if it was one of the scenes Piersall objected to, as his breakdown did not actually occur on the field during a game.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbusive Fans and Players\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nPiersall endured a great deal of abuse from opposing players and fans in the years after the book and movie were released. He was even attacked by two fans on the field at Yankee Stadium during a game. Piersall never spoke or wrote much about the taunts and slurs he had to listen to over many years, but he undoubtedly had to tap a deep reservoir of inner strength to withstand them.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nPiersall sometimes responded quite forcefully including several fistfights he had with opposing players. At other times, he displayed a light comic touch on the field. When he hit the 100th home run of his career in 1963 while playing for the New York Mets, for example, he marked the milestone by circling the bases backwards. On another occasion when he came up to bat, he doffed his cap and several birds he had hidden under it took flight, to the delight of many in attendance.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhile Piersall continued to live in Waterbury through much of the 1950s, he did not maintain a close relationship with his hometown thereafter. He visited the city after moving away while his parents were still living but rarely did so after their deaths. Given how he wrote about the poverty of his childhood and the mental stress he experienced, themes that are brought to even greater life in the movie version of Fear Strikres Out, it’s quite possible his memories of Waterbury were mostly painful ones that he preferred to keep at a distance.  \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nPainful memories notwithstanding, Piersall remains one of the best-known Waterbury natives and one of the greatest athletes born in the city. The building where Piersall attended high school in the Brass City still stands, though it is no longer a school. The name of his high school has changed several times and is today known as John F. Kennedy High School. He is enshrined in the Waterbury Hall of Fame maintained by the city’s Silas Bronson Library.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAn Elite Outfielder\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe fact that Piersall is well-known for his struggles should not overshadow his career as a ballplayer. He was an especially accomplished fielder who won Gold Glove awards in 1958 and 1961 as the American League’s best defensive centerfielder. Since the Gold Glove award was not begun until 1957, well after the start of his career, he might have won as many as four more. He is a member of the Red Sox Hall of Fame alongside the likes of Babe Ruth, Cy Young and long-time teammate Ted Williams.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhile there’s no way to quantify Piersall’s contribution to our collective understanding of mental illness, the fact of that contribution is undeniable. He was a person whose career unfolded in front of millions and who lay bare a problem that remained largely in the shadows in the 1950s. Everyone who struggles with mental illness or cares about someone who does should be grateful that Piersall was willing and able to confront his problems so forthrightly.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAfter playing 17 seasons in the major leagues, Piersall worked as a minor league fielding instructor, a broadcaster and a radio talk show host. He died in Illinois on June 2, 2017 at the age of 87.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003EBridgeport native Andy Piascik is a long-time activist and award-winning author whose most recent book is the novel In Motion. He can be reached at andypiascik@yahoo.com.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/feeds\/742250920999046708\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment\/fullpage\/post\/2468613367801394261\/742250920999046708?isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/742250920999046708"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/742250920999046708"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/2020\/05\/baseballs-jimmy-piersall-and-his-public.html","title":"Baseball’s Jimmy Piersall and His Public Struggle With Mental Illness"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgU_uJ5yoUsH3i5L_rZKG4UO050hYXEl1q1PjTvaQZEw5bZsmxx1IzYUygsLhwx7y68sI8onv0ONjc_P9CHx2ui4bnqhqHrC_1QuhlegW1ahbmAzwShR5bhIXiUhOk1RnTwsbtvPUKQSmM\/s72-c\/Jim_Pie.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-213537546483268721"},"published":{"$t":"2014-06-17T09:57:00.002+05:30"},"updated":{"$t":"2014-06-17T09:57:24.434+05:30"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Andy Piascik"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"worldview"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Everywhere is War"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E|\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E by Andy Piascik\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E( June 17, 2014, Boston, Sri Lanka Guardian) \u003C\/b\u003ESummer approaches and the stench of war is all around. Or, as the great Bob Marley put it, Everywhere is War. Start with the commemorations over a five-week span of Memorial Day, Flag Day and Independence Day, all presented varyingly as celebrations of our war dead, symbols of our greatness, the freedoms we love so dearly and seek to export to every corner of the world and, perhaps most important, the unquestioned rightness of our cause.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/srilankaguardian.org\/\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhjgUcPDCO3SRo6oT4Vl_cHUl6oA1eSTHzpwXxmqoc1BrceWAQGSTz7nvPz24upKqoiYUTa2BI25TuiiEwusa8ij-Lh3xXjUAKivlEwnfj4Sa1z8UxngHRVXXWKJEo6WfVwhTLQHsWlffw\/s1600\/iraq-war-horizontal-large-gallery.jpg\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn reality, the celebrations are of imperialist war, with the talk about the hallowed dead just so much cover for the murderous nature of US foreign policy. Celebrating the dead – note that the dead celebrated are just the American dead, not any of the millions killed by US aggression or client states – is a no-lose proposition designed to render anyone who asks the wrong questions a traitor or a terrorist. The notion that the US regularly commits war crimes and that polished, well-educated men like John Kennedy and Barack Obama are war criminals is unthinkable; war criminals look like Osama bin-Laden and Saddam Hussein and those other nasty people far away, over there. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIt’s also the summer of the centennial of the start of what in its time was known as the Great War, the greatest blood-letting in history except for that of the Second Great War barely two decades later. Of one thing we can be sure and that is that the lessons drawn from mainstream discussions of World War 1 will be all the wrong ones. Worse, the spectacle of the intelligentsia waxing eloquent about the horrors of war while unflinchingly cheering on the warmakers in Washington will be accepted by one and all of their kind as perfectly reasonable – as beyond discussion, in fact.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn recent weeks, meanwhile, mainstream commentators have been shocked to discover that things in Iraq are not alright, in fact are worse than at any time since the second US blitzkrieg in 2003. Gee, who knew. Who knew that an invasion predicated on a lie of weapons of mass destruction, designed to secure control of massive oil supplies, would go wrong? The political class and intelligentsia didn’t, or at least they pretended they didn’t, but millions around the world who demonstrated against the invasion in the weeks before it was launched certainly did. And one of the points those demonstrators underscored was that a US invasion would fuel sectarian divisions and violence, precisely as has happened. Al-Qaeda, which did not exist in Iraq prior to the invasion, now flourishes while a new group, the Islamist State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), rampages through the country.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe response of many elites in the US, naturally, is for more war. Calls from certain factions for a third US invasion are growing louder and Obama likely would have done so by now if not for grave ruling class concerns about how much more a war-weary populace can endure. Weary or not, people in the US came together in a remarkable groundswell of protest last summer that prevented Obama from attacking Syria. Given Obama’s penchant for resolving virtually any problem with violence, however, as in his determination to provoke war with Russia in Ukraine, his reluctance to invade Iraq may very well be temporary.   \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAlso on the war front is the Veterans Affairs’ disgraceful neglect of ex-soldiers in need of medical care. For years, political elites have been slashing benefits for veterans while increasing spending on weapons and cutting taxes for the Super Rich. That the problem came to a head with a Democrat in the White House is simply an accident of timing, and it is especially outrageous that the most enthusiastic cheerleaders of the illegal Bush-Cheney invasions, as well as reductions to the VA’s budgets and the tax cuts for 1%, now pretend that they care about soldiers.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nEqually farcical is the commencement of yet another round of hearings on the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi. Such hearings would certainly be valuable if everything related to US actions in Libya since the launch of the 2011 assault were up for review, but there is virtually no chance of that happening. The deaths of tens of thousands of Libyans in yet one more illegal military strike, as well as the resulting chaos and violence in that country, is of no concern to those who long for the good old days of Bush-Cheney interested only in scoring political points.   \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nLast but not least is the saga of the much-vilified Bowe Bergdhal, a heroic young man who came to see the criminal nature of the US invasion of Afghanistan. The refusal of working class youth to fight for Empire is the ruling class’s biggest nightmare and the attacks on Bergdahl, like the show trial that convicted Chelsea Manning, show how far they will go to punish those in uniform who dare challenge their objectives. A hidden aspect of the movement that ended US carnage in Southeast Asia is that it was the widespread opposition of soldiers, both as embodied by organizations like Vietnam Veterans Against the War as well as active duty resisters, that decisively turned the tide.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nSo alarming was this development that two massive disinformation campaigns were immediately launched: the myth of the hostility of the anti-war movement for returning soldiers that sought to drive a wedge between active duty and homefront resistance (see, for example, Jerry Lembcke’s outstanding book The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam); and the completely fraudulent MIA blitz (expertly exposed by Bruce Franklin in MIA, or Mythmaking in America) concocted by the Nixon Administration to shift attention away from the death and destruction wrought by the US to the plight of nonexistent prisoners of war. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nBecause preventing any similar development of resistance among soldiers is central to imperial objectives, discussion has largely avoided what Bergdahl actually said about his service in Afghanistan, including his telling declaration in a 2009 e-mail to his parents, as quoted by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!: “The future is too good to waste on lies and life is way too short to care for the damnation of others as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong. I've seen their ideas, I'm ashamed to even be American. The horror of the self righteous arrogance that they thrive in.” Rather than joining in the Bowe Bergdhal lynch mob, US soldiers everywhere, not to mention those with loved ones in the military, would do well to heed his words and experience.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nLastly, the same standard that applies to the war crimes of others applies to the US. As articulated by Robert H. Jackson, chief US prosecutor at Nuremberg, a war of aggression such as committed by the US against Afghanistan and Iraq “is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from all other crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” In such a circumstance, what Bergdahl did was proper and, it could be argued, obligatory for anyone party to war crimes. So amidst the flag waving and speechifying that glorifies imperialism, we should support him and prisoners of conscience like Chelsea Manning. We should demand that all services veterans require be provided, that US bases around the world be closed, that soldiers be returned home and that the US cease its campaign of endless aggression. And as enticing as the military may seem in such desperate economic times, we should counsel young people to stay away no matter how bleak the alternatives may be.      \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #134f5c;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003EAndy Piascik \u003C\/b\u003Eis a long-time activist and award-winning author who writes for Counterpunch, Z Magazine and many other publications and websites. He can be reached at andypiascik@yahoo.com.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\n\u003Cscript async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E \u003C!-- Art --\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0219040124010769\" data-ad-slot=\"5270704672\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 90px; width: 728px;\"\u003E\u003C\/ins\u003E\u003Cscript\u003E\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\u003C\/script\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/213537546483268721"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/213537546483268721"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/2014\/06\/everywhere-is-war.html","title":"Everywhere is War"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhjgUcPDCO3SRo6oT4Vl_cHUl6oA1eSTHzpwXxmqoc1BrceWAQGSTz7nvPz24upKqoiYUTa2BI25TuiiEwusa8ij-Lh3xXjUAKivlEwnfj4Sa1z8UxngHRVXXWKJEo6WfVwhTLQHsWlffw\/s72-c\/iraq-war-horizontal-large-gallery.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-3627507442527821534"},"published":{"$t":"2014-05-10T08:03:00.000+05:30"},"updated":{"$t":"2014-05-10T08:03:22.704+05:30"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Africa"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Andy Piascik"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Rwanda"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"worldview"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Rwanda: The Victims Who Weren’t Commemorated              "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E|\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E by Andy Piascik\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E( May 10, 2014, Boston, Sri Lanka Guardian)\u003C\/b\u003E A solemn ceremony was held in Rwanda last month to mark the 20thanniversary of the mass killings in that country in 1994. Corporate media from the United States and the rest of the world covered the event in some depth, underscoring the horrible deaths of hundreds of thousands killed by the state and Hutu civilians. Dignitaries and politicians from around the world, including several from the United States, attended a commemorative event that included an emotional reenactment of the bloodletting.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/srilankaguardian.org\/\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhjaUN2oJKaLVXtNuQnBf-vKxk9UGxWbpQpyBAJZltBSWa4tejKmnb03ox-gOjFiARCjaWZeLUyb2tuYsknPWuQhROBrfgxqIVjY_iyFRvRb1kOYm_G0mIKCkkksUh7i2_1UNhp3wr21Hk\/s1600\/rwanda-20thann.jpg\" height=\"426\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nEntirely uncommented on was the sickening spectacle of Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame overseeing the event. Kagame, a long-time servant of US business interests and a mass killer in his own right, set in motion fighting that culminated in the terrible events of 1994 by invading Rwanda from neighboring Uganda in 1990. A Tutsi, Kagame was one of the elite class that went into exile rather than live under a government of the majority Hutus. Information published by a wide spectrum of researchers, most notably from the United Nations, has determined that Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front killed tens of thousands of people from 1990-94 and several hundred thousand more during the period that has become known as the Rwandan Genocide. Because Kagame is supported by the United States, however, those crimes have been buried with the dead and no public ceremony has been held in the last 24 years to honor those killed by the RPF.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nKagame's goal from the outset of his 1990 invasion was the overthrow of the government of Rwanda, and he continually violated ceasefire agreements to that end. In fact, it was the shooting down in April 1994 of a plane on which Rwandan dictator Juvenal Habyarimana was a passenger, with a preponderance of the evidence pointing to the RPF as the responsible party, that set in motion the 100 days of mass killings. Habyarimana was killed, as was fellow passenger Cyprien Ntaryamira, the president of Burundi, and ten others.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nMuch has been made since of the Clinton administration and the international community's failure to act. In reality, the US was proactive in preventing the UN and anyone else from taking measures that might have prevented much of the killing. Former United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros Gali, for one, has put the entire blame for what happened in Rwanda in the 1990’s on the United States. And even though Kagame continues to claim, as he did in 1994, that his Hutu ethnic group was targeted in a pre-planned act of the Rwandan government, he also successfully opposed international efforts that might have curtailed the bloodshed. Further puncturing Kagame's claims is the fact that Rwanda and France, its primary international ally, supported international action to stop the killing. We can only surmise that the mass killing of Kagame's fellow Tutsis was acceptable to him and the US so long as the end result was his complete victory in the fighting and ascension to power. In addition, it's been well-documented that many of the Tutsis killed were killed not by Hutus or the Rwandan government but by Kagame's forces because Kagame considered fellow Tutsis who had remained in Rwanda as untrustworthy or collaborators.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nResearchers Christian Davenport and Allan Stam are among those who have investigated the events of 1994. Under the auspices of USAID’s International Criminal Tribune for Rwanda, Davenport and Stam, like many investigators from the West, began their project assuming that the Rwandan government and rampaging Hutu civilians were responsible for virtually all of the killing. As their investigation progressed, however, they discovered more and more evidence indicating the RPF was also responsible for a great deal of killing. When, during their investigation, they presented some of that evidence to a meeting that included high-ranking members of Kagame’s government and military, some in the audience became enraged and one military man cut off their presentation and ordered Davenport and Stam removed by force. Kagame subsequently barred them from ever returning to Rwanda. (see\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nhttp:\/\/www.psmag.com\/navigation\/politics-and-law\/what-really-happened-in-rwanda-3432\/).\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nMore instructive for how the US was determined to spin the story of exclusive Hutu responsibility and Kagame as the savior of the day was USAID’s termination of Davenport and Stam’s research project and refusal to publish or in any way make known their findings. UN investigations that produced similar results were likewise suppressed by the United States. As with the wars that ravaged Yugoslavia in the 1990’s and their aftermath, to cite just one concurrent example, the West and the US in particular were determined that no findings that reflected the responsibility of anyone but the designated bad guys would see the light of day. In both instances, mass killings and other crimes committed by US clients Kagame, Franjo Tudjman of Croatia, Alija Izetbgovic and Atif Dudakovic of Bosnia, the Kosovo Liberation Army and the United States itself were whitewashed. Crucial to the Rwandan story is the lie that April 1994 marks the beginning of the terrible events, as if Kagame’s 1990 invasion and the intervening deaths of many thousands never happened.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nFor its part, the US was looking to supplant France, its chief imperial rival in Central Africa, and increase corporate investment in the area, especially in the bordering Congo, one of the world's most resource-rich nations. To that end, Kagame twice invaded the Congo not long after taking over  Rwanda, launching what Edward Herman has described as his second act of genocide. As with the invasion of Rwanda, the invasions of the Congo came with crucial US military training, armaments and diplomatic support. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWestern plunder of the Congo dates to the 19th century and the murderous rule of Belgian King Leopold II, whose insatiable lust for wealth was responsible for the deaths of up to 15 million Congolese. Revolutionary forces finally achieved independence in 1960 but it took Congolese reactionaries and their Belgian and CIA helpers all of three months to overthrow and eventually murder Patrice Lumumba, the nation’s first elected Prime Minister. When US puppet Mobutu Sese Soko was put in power, all semblance of independence vanished as Western investors once again took control, and they made Mobutu a multibillionaire for his efforts on their behalf. By the time Kagame invaded the Congo the first time, Mobutu had fallen out of favor. His dictatorial ways had become an international embarrassment, plus the US didn’t like that he was keeping too much of the swag for himself. In addition, they had Kagame who, in his eagerness to be the US’s new client, was as pliant as Mobutu had ever been.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nUS support of Kagame's invasions of the Congo has proven a remarkable success, as his wars of terror paved the way to a massive increase in American investments (and profits) in copper, cobalt, coltan and diamonds. During that time, the number of Congolese who have been killed in the fighting or died because of starvation, disease and other causes traced directly to Kagame’s invasions is perhaps ten times as many as died during the Rwandan Genocide, and the dying goes on and on right up to this moment. Yet Kagame has been hailed again and again by Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright, George Bush II, Samantha Power, Susan Rice and other flacks for US imperialism as a hero and \"the man who ended the Rwandan Genocide.\"\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe ruling class and their media stenographers have brought us through the looking class big-time: war is peace, lies are truth, and genocidists are liberators. They cannot entirely erase the truth, however, and information about what really happened in Rwanda as documented by Davenport, Stam and many others has become available. Kagame, meanwhile, is hard at work sending hit squads around the world to assassinate exiled opponents of his regime, his job of laying the groundwork for increased US corporate plunder done, and done very well. That is why he was allowed to oversee last month’s ceremony and why virtually nothing was said in the mainstream about those who died by his hand to make Central Africa safe for US imperialism. It will be up to those who live in a future world free of Empire to honor them in the manner they deserve.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAndy Piascik is a long-time activist and award-winning author who writes for Z Magazine, The Indypendent, Counterpunch and many other publications and websites. He can be reached at andypiascik@yahoo.com.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\n\u003Cscript async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E \u003C!-- Art --\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0219040124010769\" data-ad-slot=\"5270704672\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 90px; width: 728px;\"\u003E\u003C\/ins\u003E\u003Cscript\u003E\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\u003C\/script\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/3627507442527821534"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/3627507442527821534"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/2014\/05\/rwanda-victims-who-werent-commemorated.html","title":"Rwanda: The Victims Who Weren’t Commemorated              "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhjaUN2oJKaLVXtNuQnBf-vKxk9UGxWbpQpyBAJZltBSWa4tejKmnb03ox-gOjFiARCjaWZeLUyb2tuYsknPWuQhROBrfgxqIVjY_iyFRvRb1kOYm_G0mIKCkkksUh7i2_1UNhp3wr21Hk\/s72-c\/rwanda-20thann.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-7698337861597061814"},"published":{"$t":"2013-12-23T09:08:00.002+05:30"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-12-23T09:08:22.127+05:30"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Andy Piascik"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"LatinAmerica"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"worldview"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Latin America: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E|\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E by Andy Piascik\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E( December 23, 2013, New York City, Sri Lanka Guardian) \u003C\/b\u003ERecent elections in Latin America continue that region’s remarkable surge toward democracy and away from the clutches of U.S. imperialism. On December 14, moderate socialist Michelle Bachelet was elected president of Chile while Camila Vallejo, revolutionary leader of the 2011 student rebellion, was elected to Congress.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/srilankaguardian.org\/\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgEktzaDk4sBeWAfeB3yZABt4aojcxoRv1lG3FvItkTkyFWjtPujdFv3s-W-kj0GiBxTir-RJxtkd2vSTIXm69eP5c_3poQ7sbWnb7br0kngWy6CDoL4UEplKcrZNLI3JhDBrWtfS9Q9Ao\/s640\/LATIN.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn Venezuela, the ruling United Socialist Party of President Nicolas Maduro and the late Hugo Chavez won a majority of races held earlier this month. The victory came despite an ongoing campaign by reactionaries to undermine the Venezuelan economy and destabilize the advances of the Bolivarian Revolution. Violence by oppositionists is on the upswing and a repeat of the 2002 military coup attempt that temporarily deposed Chavez, only to be repulsed by a popular uprising, is a distinct possibility.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nUnited States-financed sabotage in Venezuela is widely known throughout the Hemisphere if not here, and for Latin Americans brings to mind the events leading up to the 1973 coup in Chile, also financed by the U.S., that brought fascist Augusto Pinochet to power. Documents unearthed recently by investigative reporter and attorney Eva Golinger reveal extensive dirty work by the CIA and USAID in Venezuela as well as the involvement of former dictator Alavaro Uribe of Colombia, one of the U.S.’s last allies in the region.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn Honduras, meanwhile, Juan Orlando Hernandez of the reactionary National Party won the presidency over LIBRE candidate Xiomara de Castro in a November 24 election marred by massive fraud. Altered ballots, vote-buying, intimidation and election day violence by the military, paramilitary squads and others allied with the NP were widespread and witnessed by hundred of international observers. The fraudulent vote came on the heels of the pre-election murders of several hundred journalists, human rights workers, LIBRE candidates and other critics of the outgoing regime of the NP’s Porfirio Lobo Sosa.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nSosa took power in a 2009 election that was equally fraudulent after the military overthrew democratically-elected Manuel Zelaya, de Castro’s husband. The Honduran oligarchy ousted Zelaya because of reforms he implemented to improve the livelihoods of workers and campesinos in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation. Driven into exile, Zelaya was barred from participating in the 2009 election.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe fraud last month was so widespread that it undoubtedly swung the results, as every non-partisan, pre-election poll indicated de Castro was comfortably ahead. Despite a series of massive demonstrations demanding an investigation, it appears the result will stand. Though much has been made in the U.S. media of verification by organizations like the European Union, the observer from Austria has claimed that the majority of the EU delegation opposed the official report, only to be overruled by higher-ups. The United States, virtually alone in the Hemisphere in supporting the 2009 coup and sham election, immediately recognized Hernandez as the winner in last month’s vote.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nNext up are elections in El Salvador on February 2 where Salvador Sanchez Ceren of the incumbent FMLN is leading in the polls. The FMLN is the country’s long-time revolutionary coalition and it advocates independent development through organizations like the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas. Ceren is opposed by Norman Quijano of ARENA, party of the death squads of the 1980’s founded by Roberto D’Aubisson. Like Jonas Savimbi, P.W. Botha, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, D’Aubisson was one of Ronald Reagan’s favorite terrorists.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAs we know very well in the U.S., where both parties are controlled by the business class and politicians by definition rule in opposition to the popular interest, it’s a mistake to read too much into elections. In Latin America, however, workers, peasants, and indigenous peoples long terrorized by imperialism have created a liberation movement that made possible the Bachelet, LIBRE, and FMLN candidacies. Many have been killed in the process and others languish in prisons, yet tens of thousands carry on, risking all in the fight for freedom.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThough the tide has definitely turned from the horrific days of Somoza, Trujillo, Batista, Rios Montt and the rest of the long list of despots in the employ of the United States, obstacles remain. Increasingly, popular organizations are in conflict with the very left-of-center presidents who road their efforts to office and have proven all too willing to accommodate global capital - Evo Morales, Daniel Ortega, even Bachelet herself in her first go-round as president of Chile.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThis accommodation speaks, first, to the ongoing strength of empire. Perhaps of greater significance, though, it speaks to the limitations of electoral politics. Many popular organizations knew of these limitations from the outset and have demonstrated again and again that, whether blocking a mine, stopping construction of a dam or standing up to the army, participatory democracy and direct action are the foundations on which a new Latin America will be built.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nNowhere in the world are people moving forward as they are in South and Central America. That is significant for us because democracy is contagious and when global movements become strong enough, it can spread even to the most unlikely of places - the United States, say. In addition, any blow against the U.S. empire brings us closer to the day when we can finally shed the baggage of domination and exploitation and begin to relate to people around the world in something approximating peace and harmony. For these and other reasons we should take note of, and even take notes on, developments to our south.  \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #134f5c;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EAndy Piascik is a long-time activist and award-winning author who writes for Z, Counterpunch  and many other publications and websites. 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