If you thought the peace movement had slowed down

I just updated the ANSWER LA home page with details of coming actions. Folks, there are a HUGE number of actions coming. They will be worldwide, militant, and well-organized. These are crucial times, Bush is weakening. This is the time to organize!

Called by ANSWER and others

International days of protest against occupation and empire
From Palestine To Iraq to the Philippines to Cuba and everywhere
Sep 25-28

International March on Washington D.C.
Sat, Oct 25

Endorsed and supported by ANSWER

Mobilize for Peace in Korea.
End the Korean War!
Peace Treaty Now!
July 26-27, 2003
Washington DC

International SOS
SpeakOut at STRATCOM
No New Weapons of Mass Destruction
August 1-3, 2003
Omaha, Nebraska

March to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington.
August 23, 2003
Washington DC

Millions for Reparations
National Rally at United Nations
September 13, 2003
New York City

The World Says No to the WTO
September 13: 
Worldwide Day of Action
Against Corporate Globalization and War

This is just the kickoff day, the WTO actions will be worldwide starting in September and going through November

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Cows with guns

A moo-ving tale of bovine liberation. They refused to be cowed, they would not turn tail - that’s no bull!

I shall now stop milking this for puns.

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Black Thursday For Bush

“If President Bush is not reelected, we may look back on last Thursday, July 10, 2003, as the day the shadow of defeat first crossed his political horizon.”  This from the Washington Post

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Union members, keeping it real

D. W Pino, a trucker in California, has thoughful pieces on his website about unions, those trying to break unions, democracy, and surviving as a family with no health insurance in an unstable job market.

The Cellar Door is by Aaron Goebel, a sheet metal worker and union member in Canada. Among other things, he sells t-shirts. “For every shirt sold, $1 is used towards the purchase of Noam Chomsky books for public schools.” What a great idea!

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And now even conservatives are attacking Bush and the neocons

This eloquent piece comes from James Pinkerton, and compares the lunacy of the neocons to the lunacy of Don Quixote’s quest.

“And so there will be a reckoning, just as there was for Quixote. After 1,000 pages of adventures, Quixote takes sick with a fever. But as his temperature rises, his mind finally clears. “I have acted as a madman,” he laments. And he realizes that his nuttiness was brought on by “reading such absurdities.” Now, at last, on his death bed, he has come to “abominate and abhor” the books he wasted his life reading.

Will the neocons ever have such a moment of clarity? Maybe some will. But it’s just as likely that in a few years, when the Bush Brigade is out of power, returned to their fellowships and board chairs, they’ll be writing memoirs and giving speeches. They’ll eschew any responsibility for what went wrong in Iraq, even as they settle scores with old interoffice foes. And, of course, they’ll be touting some new “bold plan” for using other people’s children as pawns in some new global gambit.

The honest memoirs will probably come from those who went to Iraq. Indeed, Cervantes himself was a combat veteran; he lost the use of his left hand at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. By the time he published the first volume of Don Quixote in 1605, his Spain had squandered its wealth, its military edge and its great-power status in vainglorious wars across the European continent. So he knew full well just how devastating delusion could be.

My hope is that somewhere in Iraq today, an American in uniform is absorbing it all. And so maybe a novel will be written about men and women on a mission, confident in the righteousness of their cause, doing their best, but nonetheless blundering about. That book will be a comedy, in places, but mostly, it will be a tragedy, because there’s nothing sadder than sincerity and earnestness misled and betrayed.”

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Welcome to Hell

‘Stuck here forever’. Gloom settles over US troops in Iraq.

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