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By Michelle Windsor at 4:39PM

Feb 1, 2012

A Call to Collaboration

On Saturday, February 4th, members of the Occupy movement across the globe are planning to hold various rallies and marches in their respective cities to protest the growing momentum of U.S. interventions and sanctions against Iran that are building up to a possible declaration of war. Given that U.S. liberty-minded activists are equally passionate about halting the spread of our overseas empire and the unconstitutional declarations of illegal wars, this event presents a historical opportunity for liberty activists and Occupiers to unite for a commonly shared goal.

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The organizations lending their official endorsement to this cause are strikingly diverse, ranging from the Workers World Party to the Center for a Stateless Society.

I would like to urge all Young Americans for Liberty members to coordinate with their local YAL chapters for a planned collaboration with the Occupy movement on February 4th to show the Establishment that we stand together in solidarity against the unconstitutional wars that are declared without Congressional approval, wars which threaten to bankrupt our nation both morally and financially. According to the Facebook event page, so far every state has an anti-war Occupy event planned in major cities across the U.S. on Feb. 4th, and I am working with my local YAL chapter to engage with our own city's anti-war Occupy rally to be held this coming Saturday.

Realism, taken to its logical end, is non-interventionist.

I have a new piece up over at the Daily Caller about why I believe a realist foreign policy is in fact heavily non-interventionist, despite what many advocates of our current wars in the Middle East might say.

...when followed to its logical end, the realist school of internationalist relations which so many use to justify the American presence all over the world is in fact one of the greatest arguments against our current foreign policy. I do not argue against America’s wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan because I think that we would all just get along if these wars ceased to happen. I argue against these wars because I come from a perspective that sees the people we are fighting as human beings with the same base motivations as myself, and when these people see their livelihood threatened, they take the best course of action that they can find, which unfortunately often involves siding with whatever group holds the most regional power.

Cost of War Exhibit @ Kansas State University

The Flags

YAL members at Kansas State University spoke out against the war by using flags to reveal the cost of the war to the students at KSU. The flags, each one representing a dead American soldier, were on display the week from Monday to Thursday. YAL worked with many other groups within the city of Manhattan, on the K-State campus, and with the YAL chapter at Kansas University. The Manhattan Alliance for Peace and Justice provided the flags and worked with us on this event. On campus, we worked with the Ambassadors for Peace Club, Amnesty International and the Students for Environmental Action.

The groups all worked together, despite other ideological differences, to fight back against warmongering and to point out the human cost of these unconstitutional wars.

The event was covered by the Kansas State Collegian.

There were a lot of great stories from the event. Multiple veterans thanked us for putting on the event. One woman told us how her husband committed suicide due to PTSD. She was very thankful for us putting on this event. One student took the flag of a cousin of his who died overseas and said this was a wonderful event. Overall, it was a great success!

More pictures are on Facebook.

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