Peace and War

We just passed another tragic milestone with the 4,000th death of U.S. soldiers in Iraq, while the uncounted death toll of innocent Iraqis climbs beyond 1 million.

Yet in April, Congress will vote to give George Bush another $102 billion blank check for Iraq on top of past blank checks for $562 billion – unless we finally persuade our Representatives to Just Say No .

One great way to persuade a Representative is to hold a Town Hall Meeting and fill the hall with people who care and are willing read more

Remarks at American University Teach-In on March 22, 2008
By David Swanson

Robert Dreyfuss’s presentation that I now have to follow was tremendous and I learned a lot, but I disagree with his pessimism. I am fond of the saying “Let’s save our pessimism for better times.” It’s a choice to be a pessimist, and it is a wrong one, always.

So, here we are again, a crowd dominated by old white people on a college campus in a black city. But on March 12th and 19th in this read more

By the Granny Peace Brigade

That’s what we’ve been asking people to say at our Phone-A-Thons recently. It’s not easy. We stand on a busy sidewalk and ask passersby to call Congress on the spot using our cell phones. (You can find a Phone-A-Thon recipe here.) The amazing thing is that some people actually do stop and make the call. A few of us have gotten hooked on this grassroots action because of these lovely, shy, first-time callers.

There was the man who had just become a citizen and was read more

By David Swanson

The TrueMajority.org “IranMobile”, a Dr. Strangelovian thermonuclear missle/bomb that rises for launch 20 feet in the air with George W. Bush astride, came to Charlottesville, Va., as part of the http://www.NotAnotherWar.org campaign to stop an impending war on Iran. Lights, smoke, music, audio were part of the presentation. Members of the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice collected petition signatures and handed read more

By David Swanson

The videos below show exactly how much fun it can be to interrupt the day of war profiteering oil barrons and educate the public about an occupation that we said six years ago would be blood for oil and that we say now is blood for oil.

This tongue-in-cheek press advisory preceded Wednesday’s action in front of the American Petroleum Institute in Washington, D.C.:

American Petroleum Institute To Grant Congress Permission to Stop Funding Iraq War and Occupation

The activist group read more

By David Swanson

Several Democratic House candidates have backed what they call the “Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq”: http://www.responsibleplan.com

The downside of this, as I see it, is as follows:

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By Seth Rosen, srosen@dailyprogress.com
Charlottesville VA Daily Progress

Last week David Swanson tried to “stop-loss” Congress.

Swanson, a Charlottesville resident who has become a nationally prominent antiwar activist, delivered “orders” to senators and representatives to remain at their posts and not return to their home districts for Easter recess until American troops are removed from Iraq.

Later in the week when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testified before the read more