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The Anti-War Committee's People of Color Committee was created in early 2004 in response to the need for there to be a space in the anti-war movement for people of color. We want to be able to speak to the specific concerns that communities of color have in opposition to US Intervention abroad as well as it's impacts on our communities at home. We are made up of people of color member's of the AWC. Membership is open to any people of color who oppose US intervention. Please contact us at brown@antiwarcommittee.org.

Speech given by Dina Khanat on Saturday, December 11, 2004 at the Anti-War Committee's International Human Rights Day protest against the occupations in Palestine and Iraq.

Silent,

We are asked to be silent in regards to occupation.

We are asked to applause those who are killing innocents.

We are asked to financially contribute to destruction.

We are asked to ignore images of crying baby’s, orphans, and abuse
prisoners.

We are silenced.

We are blinded.

Blinded by beautiful colors of the American flag, degradedly placed on a
foreign land as a symbol of destruction, occupation, and colonization.

We are blinded by happy images on TV, in a land where poverty,
hopelessness, and exploration has reached its peak.

We are blinded by false generalization that few Bin Ladens, and few Sadam’s
faces are the faces of all Iraq.

What is it that we are fighting for in Iraq?

The exploration of the Iraq’s wealth?

The dehumanization of people who are suffering under us now more then under
Saddam?

Or are we fighting to breed more terrorist in those who we have left
nothing more for them to loose?

We must not do what we have condemned others of doing.

We must take a stance!

We must refused to be silenced, and must not be blinded.

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