Funk the War, light the bed on fire, and break free from this bad romance!
Washington DC, March 19, 7th Anniversary of the Iraq War
3:00PM @ Farragut Sq. (17th & K St. NW)
second meet-up at 4PM, TBA

• 11x17 Color Poster

• 11x17 B&W Poster
• Quarter-sheets

be our matrix friend on teh faceb00ks

BUILD-UP EVENTS
2/27. Health & Safety at Street Actions
3/6. Street Action Legal & Jail Solidarity Training
3/7. Funky Mobile Tactics Training
3/13 Affinity Medic Training (8 hours)
3/15 onwards. Camp OUT NOW! DC convergence and housing
3/16. CASJ Funk the War Training @ American University

3/19. Funk the War
3/27. DC-Area Radical Student & Youth Federation Gathering

Stop Cheating Us Out of Our Future: No Love Call-out
No love for corporate criminals. End the war and commit to our future.
Obama owes his election to the young people who fell in love when he promised to end the affair between government and big business. 2 years later, he’s cheating on us with the same war profiteers and climate criminals who've been doing the nasty with Congress and the Presidents before him...

Call to Action: Break Free from this Bad Romance
Student power against Obama's recession empire
Obama's got us singing like Lady Gaga, “I want your love and all your lover's revenge.” Thousands of anti-war youth fell in love with Obama and dropped everything to build his campaign. He seduced us with promises of hope and change from Bush's abuses, all the while refusing to give up his lust for the War on Terror...

What's about this "Bad Romance"?
Annotated argument for funking it now
...The recession is killing young people's prospects and military recruiters are circling like vultures. In the US, youth unemployment is at a record high 50%, with twice as many black youth as white youth unemployed. No options means a racist poverty draft. That's how recruiters are surpassing their quotas for the first time since the Viet Nam War. The only other time they came close to today's numbers was during the recession of the early 1980s...

bringing the ruckus against climate chaos and corporate resource wars
from stolen Native American land to Iraq and Afghanistan

8.5x11" b&w flyer
11x17" poster
quarter sheets

>> Who?
. You, your fly crew, and your dancing shoes
. mad rowdy young people and our allies
. DC Students for a Democratic Society & DC Rising Tide
in alliance with the Peaceable Assembly Campaign

>> What?
funkadelic youth & student-powered mobile street party
bringing down the corporate lobbying machine

>> When?
Friday January 29th, noontime

>> Where?
Lafayette Park
Washington, DC

>> Why?
Last month, Fossil Hawks celebrated two great victories: the US-led failure of the Copenhagen climate summit and Obama's escalation of the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Thanks to their aggressive lobbying, the world's worst CO2 emitters, companies like Shell and Exxon, are free from new international pollution regulations and fixing to reap huge profits from Obama's expanding resource wars in the strategic oil and natural gas-rich war zones of the Middle East and Central Asia.

The importance of challenging the violence and treachery of corporate power is becoming increasingly clear to the Climate and Anti-War Movements. If we want to turn the tide of climate chaos and corporate resource imperialism, then 2010 must be a year of unprecedented cooperation between our movements in creative resistance against the Fossil Hawks.

With the US military's ranking as the world's #1 gas guzzler (oil consumer & user), buying from the top polluting transnationals, the problem runs deep. The annual CO2 output of the Iraq War is greater than 139 (60%) of the world's countries. It gets worse, but much of the toxic output from the War on Terror is hard to put a number on. We know that US bombs release heavy doses of other greenhouse gases, and pollutants like depleted uranium (DU) are in regular use. There is a long history of US military-industrial eco-devastation: trench warfare gases in WWI, nukes in WWII, agent orange in Vietnam, DU in Gulf War I, and it'll keep coming 'til we bring them down.

>> Fossil Hawks, WTF?
Fossil Hawks are the war-making corporate climate criminals and the politicians who serve them. They are the mining companies, energy companies, weapons manufacturers, military logistics companies, and mercenaries who profit from resource wars and lobby to sabotage US and UN environmental regulation. Many are at the top of the 122 companies responsible for 80% of global CO2 output. They are diversified corporations and lobbies invested in war and environmental exploitation.

* Exxon is expanding natural gas operations using Halliburton's "fracking" process, poisoning North American aquifers while selling jet fuel to US forces bombing Afghanistan until it's "stable" enough for pipelines moving Caspian natural gas.

* Shell simultaneously profits from Iraqi oilfields and from the fuel US tanks burn to protect them while clear-cutting for tar sands in Alberta and lobbying for "Clean Coal" technology in DC.

* Caterpillar sells the same monstrous gas-guzzling D-9 bulldozers to Massey Coal for mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia that US tax dollars buy for Israeli Military demolition of Palestinian homes.

Flyer handed out on the day of - 4.25"x11"

Funk the War Press sweep: we scour the interbutts so you don't have to. But if you did, leave a link in the comments!

Pictures:
Protesters Mark 8 Years of War in Afghanistan - Washington Post (When we got within a 10 block radius of the Washington Post building, they pulled down the security gate in front of their doors, and put riot police in front of the shutters. Feeling a little bit of chickenhawk guilt there, WaPo? You suckaz weren't even on our list.)
Jake Mayday RVA's Flickr
Washington Post for some reason has our picture in this article
Seeing Aspects' Flickr
Demotix people's news
PHOTOS: FUNK THE WAR - Brightest Young Things!

Video:
Protest Marks Afghan War Anniversary - Fox News
Recruiter painted, Blackwater lobbyist STORMED!
DC-SDS Funk the War 8: Afghanistan 8th Anniversary Tour - Alex Lotorto!

Articles:
Funk the War storms Blackwater lobbyists after recruiter gets paint job - DC Indymedia
Recruiter painted up, Blackwater lobbyist STORMED - DC Direct Action News
D.C. Students For Democratic Society Protest 8-year Afghan Conflict - WAMU

Audio:
D.C. Students For Democratic Society Protest 8-year Afghan Conflict - WAMU

Hi-fives to whoever did this:
Military Recruiting Office Vandalized - Fox 5 News
White House, Pentagon Struggle Refine AfPak Strategy News Channel 8

Hi Hater!
D.C. Chapter Alert: 14th and L St. Recruiting Center Targeted By SDS, Wed. Oct. 7, 2009 (Complete failure, not a single one of them showed up. Also, someone got to that recruiting station before we did, so double FAIL.)
Small Protest Against U.S. Involvement in Afghanistan Moving Through Downtown - Our perennial yuppie haters!
Video: Quiet US demo speaks volumes - Al Jazeera (This is how the press works: They come to your action with a preconceived story (or perhaps the story half-written at the office). Then when they are presented with another story (100 local kids come out for the first student-run protest specifically against the war in Afghanistan, a war that is being fed to the population as the "good war" of the "peace candidate"), they look around for evidence that they can continue writing that preconceived story. When they interview five excited kids who want to talk about the reason they are protesting, and then they net one kid who they dupe into talking about the reason there aren't other people there (HOW THE FUCK SHOULD HE KNOW? HE SHOWED UP!), they throw out the other footage, and soldier on with their pre-written story. A news story is only as positive as the writer and the worst interview.)

As you can see on your left, the Upcoming Events calendar for DC SDS now includes events from the Black August Planning Organization.

DC SDS summer school ran out of summer before we were able to hold classes on Black Liberation struggle!

Thankfully, for years an organization has been organizing popular education events about this topic, often bringing exciting speakers and teaching us all a lot about the struggle for the liberation of black people in the United States, about the prison-industrial concepts, and reminding us that we have comrades behind bars that we cannot in good conscience forget.

Take some time to check out these events as they come up in August. We know you won't be disappointed...

May 1st, 9PM. @ the corner of Morton & Georgia Ave. NW
Half-sheet Flyer in English and Spanish

It took (well, Daniel took) a long ass time to get this together, but it's finally done!
IMPORTANT: This video is best viewed fullscreen, with bumpin' speakers that have huge bass. Any less than that and your viewing pleasure will be impaired.

The third Funk the War took place on March 19th (the 5th anniversary of the War on Iraq) in Washington DC. Read more about it here