TomPaine.com - Sitting In To Stop The War

I agree wholeheartedly with Micheal McPherson. I think all Americans need to protest this unlawful and inhumane war...

Peace to all that can attend the rally at the Pentagon!!! Be strong in your beliefs and all will be well. Civil Disobedience is a peaceful tactic used very successfully by Mahtma Gandhi & Martin Luther King Jr. to make major changes in human rights throughout the world.

I won't be able to attend the rally and March to the Pentagon down to Wasington, D.C. like I had originally hoped for and posted about. I hope you can! If you'd like to read more about the protest visit A.N.S.W.E.R. and rally for peace! I have to have back surgery in April and I couldn't physically make the trip from New England down to DC...everyone keeps telling me that there will be more protests I can attend later on...which doesn't make me feel better at all...I want this war to end...everyone does...but no one is making it stop.

Michael T. McPhearson is the executive director of Veterans For Peace, which is supporting nonviolent civil disobedience in local cities across the United States March 16-19, 2007. This is an excerpt of a letter describing his act of civil disobedience at a congressional office.

There are many who ask, “Do you really think being arrested will make a difference?” No, I do not know if my refusal to leave and subsequent arrest will make a difference. However, I do know that inaction will change nothing.

Lastly I ask myself, if not now when? After nearly four years of protest,
over 3,100 dead U.S. service members, tens to hundreds of thousands of
dead Iraqis who are guilty of nothing but living in Iraq, obvious lies
by our leaders that took us to war, a possible war with Iran, an
election for a change in direction, no change of direction by our
President and an indecisive Congress who needs to be pushed in the right
direction—when would be a better time to give civil disobedience a try?

Thousands of Americans agree. They will take action with their bodies and hearts on the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq through the national Declaration of Peace initiative , which represents more than 800 local and national groups and has organized more than a hundred actions in 30 states.

We are at a critical moment. Congress will soon vote for a $90 billion
appropriation that could fund the war until the end of President Bush’s term.
After this vote, Congress will have little power to end the war. We need to
flood Congress with letters, phone calls, emails and faxes demanding they end
funding. We must show up at their door in force. If enough of us sit in, they
will end the war. If we don’t, they won’t. Maintaining a majority and a gaining
the presidency is the priority of the Democrats. Ours is ending the war.

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