After Kathleen Soliah was arrested on June 16, 1999 many here in Minnesota argued that she was a "changed person". This statement seems to contradict this. A link to the source of this text is at the end of the statement. (I found this statement, apparently posted two weeks ago doing a search of "Soliah" as a lark on google.com news. GL
Statement in Solidarity with the Break The Chains Conference - By Sara Jane Olson, AKA Kathleen
posted by breakthechains on Monday June 30 2003 @ 11:52PM PDT
Statement in Solidarity with the Break The Chains Conference
By Sara Jane Olson, AKA Kathleen Soliah Political Prisoner
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. We’re well past 1984 and times are scary. With the advent of Bush II’s takeover of Washington, DC. we’ve seen the invasion and occupation of two previously-destroyed countries - Afghanistan and Iraq; Patriot Acts I and the looming II; federal court-sanctioned secret mass arrests and deportations based on racial/ethnic profiling; the FCC ruling that further consolidates our already centralized corporative media that have earned the appellation, “Pravda,” and across-the-board tax cuts for our wealthy folks at the expense of the rest of us. New York Times columnist and economist professor, Paul Krugman, describes a future in which those wealthy Americans will all live in walled, gated communities guarded and patrolled by a specialized urban police force. The US will look like a European medieval society, the majority of the population existing outside the elitist walls in a neo-max headroom environment, scrambling and grubbing for crumbs.
But there is reason to hope and common people demonstrate that day after day with resistance to the apocalyptic vision of a future we abhor. No matter what we do to construct a path to an alternate future, whether by acts that specifically say “no” or through projects that offer, by example, another way in our present we build, in small measures, for the moment of historical leap to a better world.
Bush and his neo-cons, many from the former Reagan and Bush I administrations, wrestle for the “soul” of the nation. These people have been fighting their revolution for decades to overcome ideas and social expansion that begun in the 1960’s and to forever save the country from marijuana-smoking 60’s types. Well, the 60’s types fought too: for voting and civil rights for the disenfranchised - a continuing struggle that, today, finds the use of felony convictions to perpetuate old Jim Crow patterns; and end, once and for all, to wars of imperialism that kill poor Americans and people around the globe while dehumanizing both groups; and for an end to poverty and social inclusion of the world’s outsiders. Those of us from those old decades of revolt in the mid-20th Century are still struggling. Take it from me. One of my favorite poems from those times still offers words of hope in the present; “To Be of Use,” by Marge Piercy. This is the second verse:
“I want to be with people who submerge in the task, Who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along. Who are not parlor generals or field deserters But move, in a common rhythm, when the food must come in Or the fire be put out.”
Write to:
Sara J. Olson W-94197 506-26-02 Low CCWF - PO Box 1508 Chowchilla, CA 93610-1508
* A profile on political prisoner Sara J. Olson will soon be available on the website of the Break The Chains collective -
www.breakthechains.net
The source of this statement http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/06/30/2373643
Last update July 10, 2003