SAN DIEGO - In 2003 Jess Surez del Solr became one of the first U.S. victims of the current war in Iraq -- and his father, Fernando, expressed his anger and sadness at the loss of his son by joining the San Diego anti-war movement and becoming one of its most powerful activists. On July 8 the San Diego Public Library showed A Senseless Death, a 2006 documentary by a French-Canadian filmmaker that told the story of Jess and other so-called green-card soldiers, immigrants (both documented and undocumented) lured into the U.S. military and promised citizenship in return for becoming cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism.
Obama does not have the solution, said Fernando Surez del Solr at a July 8 screening of the French-Canadian TV documentary, A Senseless Death, at the San Diego Public Library downtown. Obama is the representative of the other side of the big power in this country. The big power in this country is green meaning the money of large corporations and wealthy individuals who keep the U.S. involved in wars around the world to secure oil and other natural resources, and to maintain control of emerging markets.
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Fernando Surez del Solr Speaks at Senseless Death Film Screening