Meet John Parker
John Parker is a long-time socialist, activist, anti-war and anti-racist organizer. He is the founder of the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice, and a leader in the Socialist Unity Party. He is running for U.S. Congress in the 37th District that incorporates much of South Los Angeles, and will be on the ballot as a Peace and Freedom Party candidate. Parker isn't asking for reforms.
"What we need is a whole new system. Racism, war, poverty and the destruction of the planet are built in to capitalism.
We need a powerful, united people's movement to overcome the tiny handful of billionaires that are exploiting us all, funding and enabling genocide in Gaza, and driving down the living standards of the global working class."
Congressional Candidate Statement of John Parker
I was in detention in Egypt for 37 hours, simply because I was part of the World Conscience Convoy asking and protesting the U.S. embassy in Egypt and the Egyptian government to allow humanitarian aid in Gaza. I believe in a free Palestine.
I put my life on the line in Egypt because the massacre we’re seeing today is unprecedented, with 70% of over 18,000 Palestinians killed being women and children. As a socialist congressional candidate, how could I not?
When Black men were lynched in the South and the Ku Klux Klan organized family gatherings to witness those events with smiles and laughter, many who knew about such gatherings said nothing to stop them. When the German state's killings of Jewish people in the Holocaust began, it took far too long to fight it.
Given our healthy intolerance of genocide surely if placed back in time we would be the first to raise a fist and voice of protest.
The government doesn't have to travel back into time to see the genocide, and, with the U.S. weapons sent before and after October 7th to Israel, including bunker buster bombs, Apache helicopters with laser guided hell-fire missiles, 15,000 bombs and 57,000 artillery shells, and much more, it would not have been possible.
Our tax dollars fund the oil, financial and military industries' wars for profit. That money instead could go to stop poverty, repair health care and homeless crises here at home.
Putting humanity above career takes courage.
Vote John Parker for Congress on March 5th.
Early voting starts February 5.
Just found this photo of Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General I frequently traveled with on International anti-war delegations. He was a true courageous advocate of peace and justice.
I'm holding the microphone at the El Shifa Pharmaceutical Plant in Sudan. From September 18 - 21 1998 Ramsey led a delegation to Sudan which I was a part of. We were collecting evidence refuting the claim by then President Bill Clinton that Sudan was manufacturing VX Nerve Gas to justify the U.S. bombing of a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant that provided most of the vital medicine for Sudan and also helped supply medicine to the other African countries.
Sudan was forced to build this plant because U.S. sanctions against that country (placed on them after they didn't go along with the Iraq wars of George Bush) would not allow U.S. pharmaceuticals to provide medicine. This plant also served the needs of other African countries.
So, what does "the first Black president" as he was called by Democrats and others do - On August of '98 he ordered the bombing of one of the poorest countries in the world, and denying the continent vital medicine for diseases like Malaria.
While there, we searched through the rubble one month after the bombing and, if there were VX Nerve gas there we would have been effected. We took soil samples and held a press conference back in the U.S. to expose the lies of the U.S. State Department and Clinton. About one year later Clinton admitted that he had bad intelligence - but never paid Sudan for the plant or even apologized to the Sudanese people, nor lifted the sanctions.
I am sure Biden will not apologize either, not even for the massacre of thousands of children in Gaza.
VIDEOS
At Hilton LAX Palestine solidarity protest. Demanding U.S. and west imperialists be removed from UN Security Council and obligate the UN responsibility to defend Palestinians from the Israeli Defense Forces.
At Kamlager-Dove office: Protest demanding Congressperson Kamlager-Dove call for a ceasefire and end to funds and weapons supporting Israel's genocide in Gaza.
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