Category Anti-war

Liberal blogs MIA on antiwar protests

Lefti on the News comments on something I’d noticed too, that the liberal blogosphere almost completely ignored the antiwar protests this past weekend. In fact, it’s a demonstrable fact that mainstream media gave the protests way more coverage than did…

Building a people’s movement

Excerpts from a talk by ANSWER organizer Muna Coobtee at the March 18 L.A. rally. Only a people’s movement will change history There is no force stronger that a strong and united movement of people. That is what changes history.…

DiFi. Arrogance and willful ignorance

Senator Dianne Feinstein’s response to Bush on Iraq is a near-perfect example of how Beltway Democrats are as complicit in the war as Bush. “We need the president to urgently exercise the leadership necessary to bring Iraq’s political factions together,”…

The March 18 protest

More people came in L.A. and S.F. than we expected, there were over 20,000 at both. Interestingly, there was considerably more mainstream media than at past demos. At one point we had photographers onstage from AP, Reuters, the LA Times,…