25th Annual Space Organizing Conference & Protest

April 7 – 9, 2017, Huntsville, Alabama

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Veterans for Peace Courage To Resist Iraq Veterans Against the War Veterans for Standing Rock are all mentioned in this new book.

TURN the GUNS AROUND
Mutinies, Soldier Revolts and Revolutions

$19.95 New York: World View Forum 2017
324 pages. 29 photos, 4 maps.

Draftees and enlistees — eighteen-year-olds from the South Bronx, factory workers from Buffalo, miners’ sons from Kentucky, unemployed youth from Watts — hate the military and the Vietnam War. They throw a wrench into the Pentagon’s war machine, becoming leaders of the anti-war movement and organizing a union in the con-script military to battle war, racism and their officers.
In three other wars — the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 that sparked the Paris Commune; World War I, which sowed revolutions in Germany and Russia; African liberation wars of the 1960s that incited a captains’ revolt in Portugal — ordinary soldiers turn their guns around to make revolution.

Weaving together letters from servicemen and servicewomen, inter-views with GI war resisters and first-hand narratives, memoir and historical research, author John Catalinotto — as participant and historian — highlights the relation between rank-and-file soldier resistance and the struggle for state power.

From the first napalm bomb dropped, Catalinotto hated the U.S. war against Vietnam. By 1967 he was organizing rank-and-file servicemen to resist the war. For the last 50 years he pondered that experience and its lessons for humanity. Now he wants to share this history with all who want to fight injustice.

Comments follow, then Table of Contents

⇒PVT LARRY HOLMES
If schools in the United States really wanted to impart historical truth, Catalinotto’s Turn The Guns Around would be required reading. He tells the true story of this epoch. Few participants know more about the massive GI rebellion against the Vietnam War, the anti-war veterans’ movement or the history of soldier revolts from the Paris Commune to the Portuguese coup.
GI resister and organizer for the American Serviceman’s Union 1972-74

⇒PVT TERRY KLUG
Turn The Guns Around really brings it all back: the struggle, the solidarity, the cruelty of the stockade Brass. I’m extremely proud to have played a small role during that period. I regret nothing.’
U.S. Army, September 1966 to September 1970, with 20 months in the Fort Dix Stockade and Leavenworth Prison

⇒SP4 RICHARD WHEATON
‘Every once in a while a book comes along that lifts us high by reminding us that people struggling together can accomplish momentous things. I consider myself fortunate to have been part of the GI anti-war movement, and a founding member of the ASU; we are all fortunate to have this book.’
U.S. Army, Sept. 7, 1965 to Sept. 6, 1968

⇒ SARA FLOUNDERS
‘The radical shift in consciousness fifty years ago within the U.S. military has invaluable lessons as a new period of resistance unfolds. In Turn the Guns Around, rank-and-file GIs, who suddenly emerged as leaders of a movement, describe their determination to risk all, refuse orders and sabotage the military machine. By rooting them in past resistance, this “How to” manual arms the people’s movements of today to combat new wars.’
Co-Director of International Action Center, Author of War Without Victory

⇒SP4 GREG LAXER
‘Catalinotto’s book digs up historical precedents for troop revolts contributing to the ending of imperialist wars. That was certainly our aim through the actions of the American Serviceman’s Union. The best people I met in the army were my fellow stockade inmates!’
U.S. Army, prisoner of conscience, Forts Devins, Dix and Riley, 1968-70

⇒FRED GOLDSTEIN
‘In the present period of reaction it is difficult to imagine the undoing of the powerful capitalist state. Catalinotto reaches back in history to vividly demonstrate how social and economic crises can and will lead to the disintegration of the capitalist military. He shows that the forces of social revolution lie embedded in the very structure of imperialism and it’s insatiable drive for conquest.’
Author of Low-Wage Capitalism and Capitalism At A Dead End

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STOP THE WAR ON SYRIA!
STOP THREATS OF WAR AGAINST IRAN!
OPPOSE THE TRAVEL BAN!
STOP THE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MUSLIMS!

Since the election of Donald Trump as the President of the United States, the US policy in the Middle East has taken an even more dangerous turn. While President Trump says he will not pursue a policy of regime change in Syria, he has surrounded himself with Islamophobes and militarists. Thanks to the new US administration, Islamophobia is on the rise throughout the Western world.

Over the last 16 years since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, rising Islamophobia has come hand-in-hand with escalating U.S.-led wars and occupations in the Middle East and North Africa. The Trump administration is now attempting to impose an inhumane travel and refugee ban on seven Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — all targets of U.S. military attack or sanctions by the current and previous administrations.

The Pentagon is considering sending more U.S. ground forces to Syria. To justify this military escalation, the demonization of Syrian Government has been intensified though a new wave of misleading propaganda. The most recent salvo is a sensational yet unfounded report from Amnesty International, which has been broadcast by media outlets around the world.

Iran has been made the target of new threats as well. False claims about an Iranian attack on US ships in the Persian Gulf, combined with threats of new economic sanctions against Iran, which can easily jeopardize the Iran Nuclear Deal, are setting the stage for a new round of confrontation with Iran. Mass killing of innocent civilians in Yemen by the criminal Saudi government, with full support from the United States, is being intensified. To add fuel to the fire, the Trump administration has talked about moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, a move that will certainly lead to another dangerous conflagration in the Middle East.

All these point to the fact that we are moving toward another, more disastrous, catastrophe in the Middle East. We call on all peace loving people throughout the world to unite and take action during the International Days of Action (March 11-19) against U.S. intervention in Syria and throughout the Middle East, against Islamophobia, and against the refugee Travel Ban.

Here are some suggested actions that you can take during the International Days of Action:

• Initiate local actions together with civil rights and peace activists — demonstrations, teach-ins, workshops, panel discussions, video presentations — to oppose War, occupation and Islamophobia, and to reveal their connections.

• Activists outside the US: Demand that your government actively opposes the U.S. policy of forced regime change in Syria.

• Tell the U.S. President Trump and Congress that you oppose the Travel Ban and that you want the U.S. to pursue peaceful relations with Syria, Iran and all the nations of the Middle East.

• Ask your Congressional Representatives to support Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s bill, STOP ARMING TERRORISTS ACT (H.R. 608). Please both call your Congressional Representative’s office directly AND sign the petition in support of STOP ARMING TERRORISTS ACT at http://hr608.info.

• Write letters-to-the-editor of your local newspaper. Expose war propaganda aimed at justifying regime change in Syria and elsewhere.

We ask you to send a report of your planned activities for the International Days of Action (March 11-19) to Hands Off Syria Coalition so that we can publicize them on our web site: hosc@HandsOffSyriaCoalition.net

We also encourage you to form your own local chapter of Hands Off Syria Coalition. For more information about forming local chapters of HOSC please go to our web site: http://HandsOffSyriaCoalition.net and click on “Forming An HOSC Chapter” link on top of the page.

SAY NO TO WAR AND OCCUPATION!
SAY NO TO ISLAMOPHOBIA!

Hands Off Syria Coalition
February 22, 2017

Sept. 7 march in NYC from Union Square to Times Square.