[Peace-discuss] Code Pink - a step in the right direction...

[C. G. Estabrook]

http://codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=5366

April 14, 2010

Don't turn the time after Tax Day into Relax Day!

Your country needs you to start a difficult conversation right now
with someone you love dearly but just can't see eye to eye with!

At CODEPINK, we are extending an olive branch to Tea Party activists. 
While we don't support the goals and tactics of the Tea Party, there
is an area where we are seeking common ground: endless wars and
militarism.

Tea baggers who are furious at government spending and soaring
deficits should take a hard look at what is the biggest sinkhole of
our tax dollars: military spending. Every taxpayer has already spent,
on average, a staggering $7,367 for the unnecessary wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Obama is now asking Congress for $33 billion more to pay
for another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan.

We are not naïve to think that it would be easy for the Tea Party and
the peace movement to work together. Our core values are different.
But building peace means reaching out to the other side and trying to
find common ground even with those people whose beliefs contradict so
many of our own.

So this Tax Day, we ask you to reach out to your conservative family
members, friends and co-workers, with this very special e-card to
start a conversation about how a war economy does not leave us with
enough of the pie for our families. Read Medea Benjamin's piece -- her
questions for tea partiers might just inspire you to start a difficult
conversation of your own.

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