And all Cheney can do is push Georgie to bomb

H/T to Sowgol.

Peace walk through Middletown Saturday

Walk for a New Spring, an eight member peace group will march through Middletown, meet on the South Green and lunch with the public at the First Church on Saturday.

They also want to meet with the mayor. Good luck. This is the mayor who bridled at having to listen to a "diatribe" about peace at a recent Common Council meeting.

Student anti-war petition on Common Council agenda December 3

Tuesday, students from Wesleyan University presented a petition condemning the war in Iraq to Common Council rep Bob Santangelo for consideration by the Common Council.

It is on the agenda for the December 3 meeting (item 8f). The meeting begins at 7 pm with public comment at the beginning of the meeting, which is the only time the public can speak about the petition.

As a petition to be considered, it bears little weight. It does, however, allow the public to express their opinion about the petition.

All it takes is one Council member to sponsor it as a resolution for the council to consider, and a resolution bears much more weight. So, speakers advocating the creation and adoption of the resolution need to make a case for the Common Council to debate such a resolution and hopefully to pass it.

Since it will always be a symbolic resolution, because the Common Council has no authority to stop the war, we need to convince the Council that putting, on record, the displeasure of an entire community.

To that end, the more people in the chambers for the meeting, the better reception the petition will get. The more people, students and other residents, who speak out for peace and against the injustice of this war, the better. Acknowledging the symbolic nature of the resolution will be important, but demonstrating the power in the message that will be sent with its passage, is essential.

This resolution will not end the war, but it will tell our representatives in Washington, especially Creepy Joe Lieberman, that in his support of the war, he is not representing the people of Middletown.

It would be great to get Rosa Delaura, or a reprentative from her office to be at the meeting. And here's a shout out to Matthew Lesser, who's a Wesleyan student, an active member of the Democratic Town Committee, and an elected official, to support the measure in public.

Banging pots and pans in the streets

Tomorrow's the day when folks around the country will gather in towns squares to try to scream down this damned war, and the damned administration who have foisted it upon us.

The nearest mobilizations to us are Boston and New York. Connecticut Opposes the War will have buses leaving from Hartford.

Peace out.

Fuck your war

I'm not allowed to play this one on the radio, but it makes so much sense, that I can't help but want to share it with you.

This guy is local, and active in the peace movement in Northwest CT. Thanks to Spazmo for pointing it out.