And so it begins:

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God help Iraq, the world, our American souls. The antiwar movement faces the beginning, not the end, of domestic outrage and resistance to this abhorrent obscenity. Peace activists persevere as war begins:

  • Protests sweep across the world and the United States;
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  • “there is a roar of protest around the world that is rising in

    volume even now.” AlterNet

  • “Hours before the bombing began, the founder of Voices in the Wilderness

    wrote from Baghdad of the soul-sickness that plagues those forced to fight

    wars dreamt up in antiseptic think tanks    “. — Kathy Kelly, Alternet.

  • Peaceful Regime Change in 2004: “Instead of feeling comforted by America’s military posturing, many of us

    feel neither safe nor free. It’s time to retake, and remake, American

    democracy. — Farai Chideya, AlterNet.

  • “Though most blacks are against the war, for a variety of reasons you won’t

    see many of them taking to the streets     in protest.” — Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet.


  • “Today I Weep For My Country”, says Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) . From the Senate floor Wednesday, he asks, “Why can this

    President not seem to see that America’s true power lies not in its will

    to intimidate, but in its ability to inspire?”.

  • Although there have been rumors that the Pope has thrown his support behind the US effort (probably spawned by US disinfo sources), I find more credible the reports that he has been making impassioned pleas that the US and its ‘coalition of those who can’t afford to say no’ cease and desist. “The pope lost his temper with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi in recent discussions at the Vatican on a possible war in Iraq, a newspaper reported. ‘John Paul II used words and gestures bordering on a diplomatic incident,’ in his audience with Blair on Feb. 22, the daily said.” ArabNews.

  • Casualties of War — First Truth, Then Conscience: “In the domestic media siege being maintained by top-notch spinners and

    shrewd political advisers at the White House, conscience is in the cross

    hairs.” — Norman Solomon, AlterNet.

  • Why We Are Taking to the Streets: “A moral and pragmatic explanation for the mass civil disobedience now

    taking place in cities across the country.” — Father Louis Vitale and Sister Bernie Galvin, Direct Action to Stop the War


  • Face the Nation and Dick Cheney: “US anti-war demonstrators are invisible to the U.S. government.” — Ronda Hauben, Telepolis