Time for a Broad-Based Antiwar Movement
Speaking Truth to Power
There's a phrase originating with the peace activism of the American Quaker movement: "Speak truth to power." One can hardly speak more directly to power than addressing the presidential administration of the United States. This past October, students at...
A Coalition’s Progress: Monterey’s Anti-Afghan War Demonstration
Introduction My local chapter of Libertarians for Peace, co-founded by local libertarian activist Lawrence Samuels and me in 2005, joined the Peace Coalition of Monterey County (PCMC) about three years ago. I think we are the only non-Left group in the 20-plus member...
Who Will Protest Obama’s War?
Here we are on the verge of a momentous announcement – President Obama's unveiling of his "comprehensive plan" for escalating the war in Afghanistan – and where is the so-called antiwar movement? Missing in action, as this news report reveals: "'There's this...
Myths of Our Time
It is conventional wisdom that it was the draft that ended the Vietnam war. According to this explanation, cowardly college students subject to the draft and their unpatriotic families, forced an end to the war. This is Karl Marx's explanation. Material interests,...
Code Yellow
An Evening With Cindy Sheehan
"If we thought [the wars in] Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan were wrong when Bush was president, then they're still wrong." So began Cindy Sheehan in a speech at the Peace Resource Center in Seaside, Calif. (near Monterey). I had never seen Ms. Sheehan...
Barack Obama to Cindy Sheehan: Get Lost
I spent but a short time with Cindy Sheehan as she carried her antiwar protest from an earlier time at Crawford, TX, to Martha's Vineyard, vacation spot for Obama and many other Democrat Party elite. As Cindy remarked, the real story was not that she was protesting...
Is the Antiwar Movement Waking Up?
Like Rip van Winkle, it seems that the American antiwar movement is – finally – waking up, although, like the original Rip, it doesn't seem to have changed its idle ways. "A restive antiwar movement," avers the New York Times, "largely dormant since the...
