Last week, Katrina vanden Heuvel and Sam Graham-Felsen pointed to the wave of antiwar resolutions coming from America’s cities, labor organizations, and religious groups as a sign of the mainstreaming of antiwar sentiment.
The local character of the more than 500 antiwar events planned nationally this weekend to mark the third anniversary of the invasion is yet another example of the widening of dissatisfaction with the president’s war. From potlucks in Fairbanks to a rally by a recruitment station in Tucson to Barbara Lee’s Iraq Town Hall in Oakland to interfaith peace prayers in Denver to a march to Rep. Katherine Harris’ office in Sarasota to Congressional office visits in Boise to a peace march in Tulsa, there are far too many signs of popular unrest with Bush’s Iraq policy for, hopefully, even the politicians to ignore. (Read Ari Berman’s new Notion post for more on that.) Check the United for Peace & Justice website for a good calendar of events nationwide organized by state. And click here to sign UFPJ’s petition to Congress to vote to stop funding the war.
One of the glitzier events on the slate–the Bring ‘Em Home Now! concert–takes place Monday, March 20, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. Speakers, including RadioNation’s Laura Flanders, Cindy Sheehan, Susan Sarandon, Margaret Cho, Chuck D and Anthony Arnove will join musical guests Michael Stipe, Rufus Wainwright, Peaches, Steve Earle, Devendra Banhart, Bright Eyes and Fischerspooner in what should be a long but entertaining (and certainly worthwhile) evening. Doors open at 7:00 for the 8:00 show. For ticket info go to TICKETMASTER.COM or call 212-807-7171. The gate will be split by Gold Star Families, Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War.
