[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] De-escalate, investigate, troops out now! - This Saturday Feb. 3, 2-4 pm

[Stuart Levy]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:19:49AM -0800, Ricky Baldwin wrote (to the peace list):
> 
> This Saturday Feb. 3
> 2-4 PM
> Main and Neil in Champaign
> 
> We follow up on last week's amazing turnout (Many new
> faces!  Thanks again, Shara and Cody!) with our
> regular monthly protest against war, occupation and
> torture.
> 
> Remember, new people see us every time we turnout. 
> We're only there for a short time each month and so
> there are still many people who drive past our spot
> there who haven't yet had the good fortune to happen
> by when we're there.
> 
> We need to keep it up.  The elections were a landslide
> for us, our postcard campaign was great, and the rally
> in DC was a huge success, but most of our elected reps
> aren't anywhere near where we need them to be.  (See
> Paul Street's excellent review of Obama in this
> month's Z Magazine, for example.)

Hey, what do you all think of Obama's recent announcement that he's
actually calling for a pullout of combat troops from Iraq,
with specific completion date (of early next year), in line with the
ISG's proposal?  Commentary, and link to Obama's announcement at

    http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0201-25.htm

If (cynically) he's doing this because that's the way the
political winds are blowing, then I say more power to him.
If the people of this country have better sense than most of
their representatives, then why complain if the representatives
simply start listening to the population?

   Stuart

P.S.  A plug: a bunch of photos from the DC protest are on the
   http://www.anti-war.net/
web site.  If anyone has others, or has any photos from the
One Main Jan 27th event (!), please let me know.