Witness For Peace - March 4, East Ave.
This is a cool idea.
I got this from a reader, asking us to let you know about it:
This is to let you know about a Witness for Peace on Sunday, March 18, from noon to 1 PM on East Ave (all along East Ave. from Goodman Street east) on the 5th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq - and in anticipation of similar action in Iran. The idea is to have a line of people facing the street, on either side, for blocks and blocks - with banners or signs or any other creative ideas indicating why we are there.
The Peace Action and Education TF of Metro Justice has weekly vigils there at the same time and welcomes our participation.
This afternoon I listened to MLK, Jr’s prophetic address, A Time to Break Silence, to Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in April of 1967.
40 years later and only the country has changed. I wish his words (attached) could be heard by everyone.
History repeating. I’m all for doing what we can to keep trying to wake up this country.
MLK just never stopped kicking butt (in a peaceful way). Here’s an excerpt from the “A Time To Break Silence” address the reader mentions:
“A time comes when silence is betrayal.” And that time has come for us in relation to Vietnam.
The truth of these words is beyond doubt, but the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government’s policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one’s own bosom and in the surrounding world.
Moreover, when the issues at hand seem as perplexed as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict, we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must move on.
” …move on.” Hey, that’d be a great name for a progressive organization. 
I find myself “mesmerized by uncertainty”, too, when I’m lulled to sleep by they way the Bush administration and corporate media pundits muddy the water. I’m looking forward to more progressive voices being supported and trumpeted, to counteract the corrosive right-wing noise machine.
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That’s awesome, dude!