Cindy Sheehan at press conference for the D.C. protest

Buses are coming to the D.C. protest from NYC, Boston, Chicago, the midwest, and many other cities and towns. Ditto for the S.F. and L.A. protests, buses are coming to them from hundreds of miles away too.

By now, the ANSWER Coalition has distributed at least 300,000 flyers, ten of thousands of posters and stickers, and done outreach nationwide. It’s looking like the protests this weekend will be sizable. People are angry about the war, they want it to end. Soldiers too. They will be there and leading the D.C. march, as well as speaking from the podium.

The March on the Pentagon will not only be very large, it is drawing together people who have never participated in any demonstration before. Active duty soldiers, soldiers’ families, Iraq war veterans and other veterans are mobilizing and will form the front contingent.

D.C. logistics

L.A. logistics

S.F. logistics

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From my comrade Dave Riley in Australia comes his latest, Green Left:Left Greens

GreenLefts:LeftGreens is an Australian based hub that aggregates resources on the environment from a green left and a left green perspective.

That makes three of us now; Green Lefts, Climate and Capitalism, and this blog, that talk about the links between global warming and capitalism, and how new economic systems, like socialism, are needed to effectively work against climate change.

The solution to global warming has to be Top Down and be worldwide. That can’t and won’t happen under a capitalist system that thinks short-sighted greed is a good thing. It’ll take worldwide planning and managed economies to do what needs to be done, unless you think that major corporations will voluntarily decide to take big profits cuts to insure the well-being of future generations. Yeah, sure they will.

So, I’ll be checking Green Lefts daily, he’s already got much good stuff there, and the more who blog on this topic, the better.

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And that means higher prices in supermarkets for meat and poultry. While ethanol is a renewable resource, using it on a widespread basis as planned means large amounts of crop land will be used to grow it, not food, something that can not help but have serious repercussions.

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