300,000 gathered in DC yesterday to protest the war. Why aren't mainstream media sources reporting it? Large gatherings in San Fran, LA, and other locations in the thousands. 300,000, I would like to point out, is twice as many people as all those living in my hometown.
We're out of bullets for our mission in Iraq and we're getting them from, guess where?, Israel.
"There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and nothing more.
But there is also the bubbling of change under the surface of obedience: the growing revulsion against endless wars, the insistence of women all over the world that they will no longer tolerate abuse and subordination... There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color."
Source: A People's History of the United States, 1999 edition, page 661.
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