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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
~Kurt Vonnegut
Monday, September 26, 2005

We Are the Majority Now



"The feeling of banging your head against the wall ended with this."

Joan Baez

Contrary to the majority of media reporting 'tens of thousands' of people attending the rally in DC, the figure would more correctfully be 'hundreds of thousands' of people. We have reached the tipping point. We have momentum. We are the majority now. Here is a video of the rally and march. linked at bottom of page

We got there early and had a chance to feel the crowd build. There was excitement, yet space for personal reflection. The attention given to the organization of the rally was quite evident. There were many different groups represented, with many different agendas, but there was a feeling of unity, a ripple that flowed through all, an understanding that what is happening in our country is unacceptable, that current leadership is incompetent and a recognition that in order to take this country back, 'people power' is vital.

It was stressed throughout the day that taking the message back to your communities would continue the momentum. Sharing video from local community peace marches is one avenue as Mark Dilley's video of the Ann Arbor Peace March illustrates. I've found that people who were not willing to talk a couple months ago are now happy to share thoughts. I've yet to talk to anyone who is happy with the way this leadership ignores people. I've also heard much disgust that Democrats are just as unresponsive, especially now that they have a door propped wide open for them to step in, oppose and even push articles of impeachment.

AfterDowningStreet is carrying the seeds of momentum. It's up to us to continue to spread them. Perhaps it's even up to us to engage in civil disobedience.
Monday's civil disobedience ran the gamut of Code Pinkers and Naderites, anarch-kids and feminist boob-flashers, along with some guys roaming around in prison garb, with Abu Ghraib hoods over their heads.
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