(source: Op Ed News) I just read an article about last Friday's civil resistance outside of the White House that gave me hope. Mainstream media gave it cursory coverage. They failed to mention that many who were arrested were Veterans saying NO MORE war.
While Congress was gutting our economy and making the rich richer, pushing through more war in Afghanistan while still embroiled in the Iraq duplicity, veterans of wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan gathered in snow and frigid temperatures to speak against war and refuse to commit further atrocities for implacable corporate profiteers.
There was no violence or threat of violence. Our warriors who come back physically and psychologically damaged, forever changed, are standing for peace. Who better to get the attention of the American people and teach them what's really happening in our wars than the people who went there and witnessed those wars first hand?
Here's that article:(scroll down to see pictures and videos)
Veterans Want YOU for Civil Resistance!
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