Six years later, when considering how much more supportive the Internet is to antiwar organizing since the war of aggression in Iraq began and when considering how significantly the Bush Administration rocked the consciousness of the American people, why haven’t antiwar groups or peace, justice, and environment groups found a way to consistently organize effectively?
Why haven’t they capitalized off the various sea changes in American sentiment?
Most importantly, why won’t all Americans know when they go to work a job this week that thousands showed up to “march on the Pentagon” last weekend? What is being done that prevents the antiwar movement from sustaining itself and gaining the attention of the American people?
The questions with complex and unknown answers are unsettling to me.
Having been active for the past two years, I am in a position to rise up and take on higher leadership roles within the movement. But, when I think of that opportunity, I hesitate and spend time thinking about what I should do or can do to make the actions of a few more valuable to the many.
Any criticism I offer will be shot right back at me. Someone will inevitably say, “At least, we are doing something.”
So much of what activists do here in Chicago is habitual, rehearsed, and is mostly done because one would feel guilty if he or she didn’t stand up for the innocents who are having their lives torn apart by murder, rape, torture, and war, which results from U.S. intervention in countries all over the world.
Antiwar rallies and marches are literally a sorry sight to see. The people who show up create a potpourri of those marginalized in politics in America.
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