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Conscience is not on the military's radar screen, and it's not on our television screen. But government officials and media messsages do not define the limits and possibilities of concscience.
We do.
Norman Solomon, War Made Easy, 2005
The thousands of Americans, including Greens, who protested in the streets in early 2003 were right
said Michael Berg, Delaware Green candidate for U.S. Representative (bergforcongress.us), We need to hold public officials who got us into the Iraq war accountable. Being right doesn't make us proud, it makes us angry and sorrowful for the needless deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, the more than 2,300 U.S. service members, and the hundreds of civilian contractors.
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All of us have become hostages in the new conditions of doomsday technology, runaway economics, global poisoning, uncontainable war.
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Here are some examples of things to do:
from The Antiwar League
1. Actively obstruct the military recruitment of our kids. Parents, teachers and students should demand of local school officials and city government that they defy the federal "No Child Left Behind Law" and expel the recruiters from our schools even if they threaten us with a cutoff of federal funds. We must not "sell" our children to the Masters of War for federal blood money. Tell them to shove it.
2. Indict Bush and/or his accomplices. The movement to bring war crimes charges against Bush should not rely on impeachment or an International War Crimes tribunal but should turn to local and state courts and law enforcement officials and demand that they investigate the possibility of a conspiracy by federal officials to start a war of aggression.
3. Oppose federal control of state National Guard units. In Massachusetts last fall there was a signature campaign for a ballot initiative to bring home the Massachusetts National Guard from Iraq and prevent further deployment in overseas wars.
4. Refuse cooperation with the totalitarian Homeland Security project. Demand that our state and city governments and community leaders break the ties that connect out local communities and institutions to the Orwellian "War on Terror." (For example we should abolish the Fusion Centers.)
Such projects of resistance and refusal may already be underway in many places but we need to duplicate these efforts in thousands of communities and we need to make our decentralization strategy explicit. We should declare that we have a home field advantage against the War Party and that we intend to use it to peacefully but decisively dismantle the war machine.
Doug Fuda, April 1, 2006 Local vs. Federal -- the Antiwar Home Field Advantage
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Pictures from Delaware vigils
Three Years of Wrongful War & Death
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Greens Denounce Utility Rate Increases
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Recycle your old electronics
Green Wave: Write a Green Letter or Op-ed Column on Iraq Withdrawal
Send a Letter to an Editor
Join Pacem In Terris at the weekly witness for peace vigils throughout the region.
Under the influence of politicians, masses of people tend to ascribe the responsibility for wars to those who wield power at any given time. In World War I it was the munitions industrialists; in World War II it was the psychopathic generals who were said to be guilty. This is passing the buck. The responsibility for wars falls solely upon the shoulders of these same masses of people, for they have all the necessary means to avert war in their own hands. In part by their apathy, in part by their passivity, and in part actively, these same masses of people make possible the catastrophes under which they themselves suffer more than anyone else. To stress this guilt on the part of the masses of people, to hold them solely responsible, means to take them seriously.
On the other hand, to commiserate masses of people as victims means to treat them as small, helpless children. The former is the attitude held by genuine freedom fighters; the latter that attitude held by power-thirsty politicians.
~ Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism
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Dump the Dump
Impeach Bush and Cheney!
The Insurgent Word
Read the GP Resolution and the Downing Street Minutes
Rice at the Center of the Plame Scandal
Bush can ignore the American public, because the Democrats have completely collapsed as an opposition party.
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E.L. Doctorow, The Unfeeling President
Mark Crispin Miller, None Dare Call It Stolen: Ohio, the election, and America's servile press
News: Third Party Watch
...the bum's rush to war
AfterDowningStreet.org
Congressional Call for Withdrawal
Democrats Blow Chance to Hold Bush Accountable for Iraq Policy
Conyers Judiciary Committee Meeting on DSM
End the Madness: An Impeachment List
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