The Voice of the Next Generation

According to Sunday's Denver Post, the kids today are gearing up for the August Democratic National Convention with a fusion of creativity and social justice resulting in efforts like bike rallies, puppet shows, and guerilla gardening. Still, the article notes:

These different factions speak of just one common goal: stopping the Iraq war immediately.

Code Pink's Zoe Williams—"part of the new face of activism"—notes in the piece, "One of the big things about the colorful, creative protests is to show that we are a very interesting, artistic, positive group of people. We aren't this scary image that protesters often get painted as."

—Read the full story: "New Generation Plans Dissent"

"I HOPE IT'S YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS THAT DIE" - US Representative Dana Rohrabacher

By US Army Reserves Colonel (Retired) Ann Wright


"I HOPE IT'S YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS THAT DIE" said US Representative Dana Rohrabacher to American citizens who questioned the Bush Administration’s unlawful extraordinary rendition policies.

Congressional hearings provide a deep insight into the inner spirit of our elected representatives-and sometimes, the insight is not pretty.

On April 17, we witnessed Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) unleash his unbridled anger onto members of the European Parliament’s committee on Human rights who were invited guests and witnesses in the House Foreign Affairs European subcommittee hearing. The European Parliamentary human rights committee had issued a report in January, 2007 sharply critical of the Bush administration’s extraordinary rendition program in which persons from all over the world were detained by either CIA or local police and then flown by CIA jet (torture taxi) to other countries where they were imprisoned (Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Libya, Djibouti, Morocco, Yemen. The report was equally critical of European governments for allowing the unlawful flights to take place.

From 2001 through 2005, the governments of fourteen countries in Europe allowed at least 1,245 CIA flights with illegally abducted terrorist suspects to be flown through their airspace or to land on their territory. Germany, Britain, Ireland and Portugal allowed the highest numbers of covert flights. As well as at least 1,245 flights operated by the CIA, there were an unspecified number of US military flights for the same purpose.

The European Parliament report differeniated between lawful extradition of criminal suspects for trial in another country and the unlawful abduction, sending to a third country usually noted for torture of prisoners and imprisoning for years without trial persons suspected of criminal terrorist acts.

The report acknowledged that terrorism is a threat to European countries as well as to the United States, but the European Parlimentary committee said that terrorist acts must be handled lawfully by both European countries and by the United States. The report said: "After 11 September 2001, the so-called 'war on terror' - in its excesses - has produced a serious and dangerous erosion of human rights and fundamental freedoms." The extraordinary rendidition program undercuts the exact liberties we are defending, the rule of law, the right for a fair and speedy trial, the right to know the evidence on which one is held and prosecuted.

Some who were kidnapped ended up in Guantanamo. Others were flown to prisons in other countries for interrogation and torture. Many of those who were subjected to extraordinary rendition are still in Guantanano. Many have been there for over 5 years. Over 400 of the 770 persons who have been imprisoned in Guantanamo over the 5 years it has been opened, have been released. Only 380 are left imprisoned in Guantanamo. Only 3 have been charged by the Military Commission and only one tried in Guantanamo. After five years of being held prisoner, Australian citizen David Hicks was convicted in March, 2007 of material support to terrorism and sentenced to only seven months further imprisonment which he is serving in Australia. The Bush administration has said it will try only 50-70 of the 380 remaining in Guantanamo. That means that of 770 who have been in Guantanamo, on 50-70 will be tried. The others eventually will be freed due to lack of evidence of a crime. Many will have spent five years or more in imprisonment.

According to virtually every prisoner that has been released, they were tortured while imprisoned in countries such as Syria, Uzbekistan, Egypt, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Some prisoners say they were tortured by police or interrogators. Some say they heard American voices in the background while they were tortured. None were charged with any crimes. None went to trial. They were abducted by CIA or local authorities at the request of the United States. The United States did not present evidence of criminal actions nor request extradition from the country where the person was detained. Nor did a central approving authority look at the rationale for spiriting a person to the control of a third country for interrogation. Persons were “rendered” many times on the say-so of junior CIA officials.

Back to the Congressional hearing. With eyes narrowed and mouth in a contorted grimace, Congressman Rohrabacker attacked the two British and one Italian members of the European Parliament who testified before the committee. Reminding one of Joe McCarty in tone and substance, Rohrabacker demeaned and degraded the report and chastised, belittled and berated the Parliamentarians. Remarkably, Rohrabacker said the most of the CIA private flights that landed in Europe were to transport CIA agents all over the world, not to move prisoners. Yet the logs of the 1245 flights have been tied by date and location to the movement of specific individual prisoners from one location to another.

Rohrabacher railed against anyone who questioned the right of the Bush administration to do whatever it wanted, legal or illegal, to prevent terrorist acts and said that by not supporting the Bush policies was consigning their country to the terrorists. In particular he said that any Americans who questioned the extraordinary rendition were un-American.

Citing historic examples of other countries kidnapping persons, Rohrabacker said Israel had every right to kidnap Nazi official Adolph Eichmann from Argentina, bring him to Israel and execute him. Rohrabacher conveniently forgot to mention that the Israeli government did put Eichmann on trial, a trial which none of those who have been extraordinarily rendered have had. Rohrabacher then attacked and belittled the European Community for outlawing the death penalty saying that “You in the European community won’t stand up to evil people, you won’t execute them. Eichmann deserved to be executed, just like these terrorists must be executed.”

Rohrabacher never once mentioned due process, the rule of law, right to a trial for anyone picked up in the extraordinary rendition program. Merely because persons were “rendered” and imprisoned by the US meant to Rohrbacker they were guilty.

Rohrabacher said if European countries did not cooperate with the United States and go along with whatever the Bush administration wanted, they were condemning their countrymen to death by not using extralegal methods to imprison terrorist suspects. When citizens attending the hearing, including members of Codepink Women for Peace and Veterans for Peace, heard Rohrabacher’s statement, they collectively groaned. Then, much to the shock and disbelief of everyone in the hearing room, Rorhbacker said to those who had expressed displeasure at his statements: "I hope it’s your family members that die when terrorists strike."

At that point, I had had enough of Rohrabacher. I stood up and said "I did not serve 29 years in the US military and 16 years in the US diplomatic corps to see demise of the rule of law and violation of our own laws. Rohrback’s statements are outrageous. No wonder the world hates us!"

Chairman Delahunt gaveled for me to stop speaking and I was escorted by the police out of the committee room. I was not arrested.

Remarkably, I do agree with one thing Rohrabacker said. "They hate us."

Rohrabacker finished his sentence with "They hate us because they hate our way of life." Unfortunately, many people do hate us, but it’s not for our way of life.

Its for exactly the talk and actions that Rohrabacker and the Bush administration represent: illegal and unlawful actions, an arrogant attitude that America is always right and everyone else is wrong, that the world’s resources are for the exclusive use of the United States and we have the right to invade and occupy any country.”

Until we change the manner in which Presidential administrations and the Congress operate and the way we approach our membership in the community of nations, the world will continue to question what America stands for.

About the Author: Ann Wright retired as a Colonel after serving 13 years on active duty and 16 years in the US Army Reserves. After 16 years in the US diplomatic corps, she resigned in March, 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq. She had been assigned in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia and Mongolia. She helped reopen the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan in December, 2001.

A Day in DC With CODEPINK by Caroline Chinlund

Plans having changed due to disruptions in the government’s schedule caused by the horrible Virginia Tech shooting, two hearings were targeted for today’s Code Pink involvement. In the morning, a delegation of five of us in newly penned pink shirts, crown, hats and bibs set off for the Rayburn Congressional Office Building to a hearing the House oversight and Government Reform Committee was holding on the Walter Reed Hospital. With the friendly help of a capitol policeman we found the hearing room whose number had been changed. We were able to get five seats all together and central, behind the panel who were giving testimony.

The testimony was hard to listen to in the context of our knowledge that the war, still ongoing, continued to wreak devastation on bodies and lives of soldiers and families here and in Iraq. Des, in shirt lettered NO WAR NO WOUNDED on the front and BRING OUR TROOPS HOME on the back, stood up. The reporters seemed to be trying to get an angle on the testimony that included her. Someone official came over and asked her to sit, which she did.

In a few minutes Bev had the idea of asking for Des’ shirt. Des took it off passed it down;(She had another one underneath!) Bev put in on and stood. When she sat down, she passed the shirt on to Eva-Lee. The hearings proceeded with Eva-Lee standing. Then I had a turn in the shirt. There was no interference with our silent commentary, but when one of us called out “STOP FUNDING THE WAR’ the chairman asked me to sit and requested we be silent.

It was very hard not to comment as the doctors and retired military people talked about the lifelong care needed by people with traumatic brain injury and PTSD as well as the prosthetic technology that must be afforded to amputees. And it was equally hard to hear the concerns of the committee members who were aware of the suffering of the soldiers and families who were their constituents.

I wanted to yell…STOP ALL OF THIS !!..FUND THE WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS.!!.FUND THE REPARATIONS TO THE IRAQI PEOPLE!!..STOP BUSH’S ILLEGAL AND IMMORAL AGGRESSION.!! IMPEACHMENT HO!!

But by then all the press had left, and I didn’t disrupt the meeting. It would have been fun to sing the new song that Medea and Des have been working on:


To the tune of “I’ve been working on the railroad”


We defend the constitution

We’re the pink police

We defend the constitution

And we defend free speech

Can’t you hear the people shouting

It’s become a roar

You can hear the people shouting

Time to end this war



Time to end the war

Time to end the war

Time to end the war right now right now

Time to end the war

Time to end the war

Time to end the war let’s go!



Someone’s in the White House with George

Someone’s in the White House we know

Someone’s in the White House with George

Cooking up another War


Fee fi fiddle e Yi o

Fee fi fiddle e yi o ho ho ho

Fee fi fiddle e yi o

Time to end the war right now let’s Go!

After the hearing ended Medea and Eva-Lee mingled with the committee members. Later a reporter from Kentucky interviewed Eva-Lee about her conversation with Iowa congressman Bruce Braley.

At this point I felt like Cinderella. It was 12 noon and my Chinatown Bus would take off at one to whisk me back to NYC and my other life.

Medea and I parted from Des, Bev and Eva-Lee and got a taxi to the Code Pink House. I grabbed my stuff and said farewell. Once again I was touched and inspired by the care and attention of Code Pink as Medea helped me, carrying one of my bags out to the car. People at the Code Pink DC House are always active, yet seem never too busy to be friendly and supportive of one another.

Writing this on the bus, I’m thinking of the story we heard Congressman John Lewis tell last night at the Bookshop Café called Busboys and Poets. He described a moment in the struggle of non-violent resistance when he knew there was no turning back. He had to move on with his life being someone who GETS IN THE WAY. With and after Martin Luther King he worked for voting rights for all citizens and the end of racial segregation.

Staying connected through these days among the women of Code Pink, I will have to keep on GETTING IN THE WAY until our government ends the involvement in the Iraq war, and ends the practice of war as any kind of solution. As John Lewis said last night, WAR IS NO LONGER A VIABLE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEMS OF PRESERVING LIFE ON OUR PLANET!!!

Reflections on the Arrest at Pelosi's Office by Lorie Perdue

“Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press or the right of the People to peacefully assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances.”


Cold weather, sharp winds and blowing snow and rain could not keep Code Pinkers in D.C. from delivering coffee and a wake up call to Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi in her Cannon Building office this morning. A delegation of activists from several groups (along with an NBC television news crew) gathered at the Code Pink house for breakfast, discussion and strategizing and then marched to the Speaker’s office to say “welcome back” both from congressional recess and from her trip to the Middle East. Many groups were represented at the meeting and action, which turned into an arrest action when Marine Mom Tina Richards protested the Speaker’s inaction on hearing the grievances of those most affected by the war. Capitol Police arrested her after one warning as she shouted “Stop Funding War” in the hallway outside the office.
The coalition had earlier requested a meeting with Pelosi’s Chief of Staff to discuss the upcoming House/Senate Joint Conference Committee sessions about the $124 million Supplemental Defense Appropriations request and to encourage the Speaker to employ the diplomatic tactics she is urging world leaders to use. Approximately 30 activists entered the office, reading narratives about American Military Members who have died since the Democrats took control of the Congress.
As staff and police forced the Press to leave the office, Code Pink members flashed back to a moment of inspiration from Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir and sang the First Amendment Song protesting the abridging of the freedom of speech and of the Press.
The contingent, which included representatives of many local D.C. groups and national groups, did meet briefly with the Speaker’s Chief of Staff and conveyed the message that they still desire the Congress to stand up to Bush and stop funding the war.
Following the meeting, the activism from Code Pink continued, with support actions with Tax Resisters, Green Party members and D.C. voting rights activists seeking representation in Congress.
As a personal side note, we were in the midst of the visit in Nancy Pelosi’s office as the news of the shooting spree at Virginia Tech broke. While we watched the story unfold and the death toll climb we were reminded of how quickly tragedy can strike and that many area families would be feeling great loss. The horrific incident has left 32 dead so far. It is a terrible incident; one, which I hope, is never repeated. We are already hearing people lashing out in grief and fear but we need to understand that although it is human to react, reactionary decisions are not always the most productive or wise. It is shocking and scary, but we also need to spend a moment and gain a little perspective. And in a moment of realism we need to reflect on the fact that the V.T. shooting death toll is about the average of any normal morning in Iraq. Just another normal morning outside the Green Zone.


He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
- Thomas Paine

Disruption of Congress by Lori Perdue

I am, in general, a law-abiding citizen. I pay my taxes. I use my turn signals. I show respect for law enforcement officers, too much sometimes, according to Medea. I am a realistic person and an idealistic soul. The combination makes for an interesting perspective while working on the Hill.
I have been in many, many congressional hearings in the past several months. And yes, I have acted up, spoken up, been moved to stand up in protest, been removed and threatened with arrest. I have confronted legislators in hallways, following press conferences, in their offices, at events and on the streets of D.C. I have lobbied, monitored, and marched into the teeth of opposition. It is true, I have pushed the envelope and been pushed across the line and onto the floors of the House office buildings. That must be expected when one is working with likes of revolutionaries Medea Benjamin and Gael Murphy. I have not, however, been arrested… before Friday, March 23.
Civil Disobedience has been something I have supported, and advocated. It is a valuable tool for change in our society, a vital part of Democracy. But I have made a point in many conversations to stress that it would take a very clear issue to motivate me to join the ranks of the Activists who so willingly lay their bodies, records and pocketbooks on the line to emphasize a point to their government. Last week, I proudly, but with an overwhelming sadness, added my name to the list of those whose life stories include defying rules and laws to shed light on injustice and express dissent.

I spent early Friday morning on the sidewalk between the House office buildings and the Capitol lobbying Members going to and from the Democratic Caucus meeting, stressing that if they buy this war, by funding it, they will own it and will be held responsible for the outcome. I won’t say the effort was wasted, because the experience hardened my resolve. When Members who greeted me on their way to the Caucus meeting wouldn’t look me in the eye upon their return, I understood that our battle for de-funding was facing defeat at the hands of the Democratic leadership. The reality of the betrayal was stark, but not startling. Move On had ensured that the staunch attitude of “No more money for War” from the Peace Movement contingent was muddled with an invalid poll and millions of dollars applied to pushing Dems to vote for the Supplemental and it’s millions for programs unrelated to ending the war. The tears started to flow freely when a Democrat finally looked at me, standing on the sidewalk with a poster of an American Solider carrying a dead Iraqi child, and said, “There’s nothing we can do about it. They are going to get their votes. Thank you for trying. Don’t stop.”
After working so hard, for so many weeks, with so many people, to pressure Congressional Democrats to vote “NO” on the Iraq War Supplemental, or for Democrats of principal to support the Lee Amendment that would fund only the safe and orderly withdrawal of troops, I felt I had no choice but to ensure that a voice of dissent was heard in the House.
I entered the Capitol building with Marine Mom Tina Richards, Military Families Speak Out co-founder Nancy Lessin, and two other members of MFSO. I was wearing black, clearly marked with Code Pink – Women for Peace, with stage blood on my hands and face. We waited in line, passed through security, waited inside the Capitol and were finally admitted to the House Gallery. Tina and I were seated in the front row, along the rail, directly behind the Democrats. As Speaker Pelosi addressed Congress Tina produced a photo of her Son, Cloy, bravely held it in front of her face and refused to put it away. She wanted to remind Congress, many of whom had met with her in the previous weeks, that her son could be recalled to active duty and deployed to Iraq, for the third time, if they funded the Supplemental. She was escorted out of the gallery by four plain clothes Capitol Police officers and removed from the building. They did not want to arrest her, told her so, and showed regret at her plight and were kind to her as they ejected her. As the Speaker wrapped up her address by twisting the Peace Movement’s talking points to her purpose, making it seem as if the interests of American and International Peace Groups were truly being served by the passing of this bill, I felt physically ill. Pelosi was co-opting our truth and besmirching it with her partisan spin. The feeling of betrayal was overwhelming and my heart started to pound with an outrage that rivaled that of the dismay and anger I felt over “Shock and Awe”.
Congress quickly moved for a voice vote on the bill. When the applause faded and legislators moved to cast their electronic votes for the record I recognized that my time had arrived. I quickly stood, held my bloody hands in the air and shouted, “Don’t buy this war.” I was grabbed by the Capitol Officer who had stationed himself next to me, expecting just this type of disturbance, and pulled into the aisle. I continued, “You’re buying it and you own it!” Four more officers surrounded me and lifted me by my elbows up the stairs as I shouted, “Troops Home Now! Troops Home Now! Troops Home Now!” as they carried me from the Gallery. Another Activist, Tighe Barry, picked up the cry from another area in the Gallery as they dragged me out, sustaining the dissent for a few more moments. We were both arrested, searched, cuffed and taken away by Police quite efficiently and without violence.
Looking back, I realize that our actions did not change the way the votes fell, but the spirit of true change was recognized in the Capitol. Pelosi and the Blue Dogs got what they wanted legislatively. They got their money, but they also got the message that the cost was much greater than 100 billion dollars. The true cost will be paid in blood and tears. They did not, however, get it quietly, floating their political maneuvering under the radar. Tighe and I made sure they and everyone in the Gallery and maybe those watching at home on CSpan realized that there are those in the public that disagree, that there are Americans that don’t believe that more money for war is supporting the troops. I truly hope that all members of Congress understand that we will continue to mourn and dissent even in the House Chambers, and now in the Senate, until they act responsibly to Bring our Troops Home Now.


Lori Perdue is a native of Indiana, mother of two teenagers, a United States Air Force Veteran and is officially affiliated with Code Pink – Women for Peace, Veterans for Peace and Military Families Speak Out. She has been a full-time Peace Activist for two years.

CODEPINK Disappointed With Democrat Funding for War; Determined to Stop Future Funding and Bring Our Troops Home (www.dontbuybushswar.org)

Last week, the House of Representatives passed the "Iraq Accountability Act" giving the President an additional $100 billion to continue the US occupation and associated military operations in Iraq. While this binding measure establishes a deadline for the removal of most combat troops by August 31, 2008, the conditions set forth in the bill fall far short of where Congress should be on their path to bringing the troops home. CODEPINK believes that not one more dollar should be appropriated for continued war and occupation, and will continue to push the position that Congress should only fund the safe, orderly and rapid withdrawal of all troops by the end of this year.

CODEPINK will continue to demand that Congress be accountable to the American people’s clarion call last November 7 to end to the war. Despite many expert opinions that say that the US priority in Iraq must be to support political and diplomatic solutions rather than military operations, and yet we are still burdened with an exclusively military strategy and additional funding for war and occupation.
Members of Congress who voted for the supplemental bill see it as the first small step toward the major policy shift we seek. The work of the peace movement, and particularly that of CODEPINK, has been instrumental in moving us closer to our goal to end the war. Speaker Pelosi, talking to the Democratic Caucus on the eve of the vote, mentioned the pressure she herself was getting from CODEPINK camping out on her doorstep! Congress has moved this far only because of public pressure, and reach further, public pressure must and will continue. CODEPINK will now push for the best supplemental bill possible out of the Senate, the best bill possible out of Conference, and the best bill possible from the Defense Authorization that will be coming up in April. CODEPINK continues to fight for better funding legislation that will finally and completely end the US military presence in Iraq.
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Why Does the Peace Movement Still Say "NO" To The Supplemental Bill To Fund The War?

By Phyllis Bennis
Institute for Policy Studies
22 February 2007

Dear friends,

The Democratic leadership claims the $125 billion supplemental is the way to end the war. Aside from setting a date for bringing home troops, the bill includes a number of items many in the peace movement would ordinarily support – veterans’ health benefits, Katrina survivors’ assistance, children’s health insurance…
So what’s the problem with the supplemental? Why aren’t peace activists supporting it?
Because it gives President Bush another $100 billion to continue the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And it doesn’t end the occupation or prevent expansion of the war to Iran.
WHAT IT DOES
It calls for pulling out half the troops from Iraq by August 2008
BUT –
It exempts whole categories of troops from the withdrawal
** Troops “training the Iraqi military” can stay – currently 6,000, perhaps as
many as 20,00 (no limit in the supplemental)
** Troops engaged in “special operations” can stay – the Marines say they want
20,000 for Anbar Province alone, perhaps as many as 40,000 for the whole country (no limit in the supplemental)
** Troops “protecting diplomatic enclaves” like the huge Green Zone and the US
Embassy, the largest in the world, and maybe including the numerous US bases established in Iraq, can stay – 20,000 is a conservative number (no limit in the supplemental)
That means Bush could keep unlimited numbers, perhaps 60,000 – 80,000 troops, permanently in Iraq – and still be in compliance with the bill.
And the bill does not require that the troops withdrawn from Iraq be sent home; they can be immediately deployed to Afghanistan, or to bases in surrounding Arab countries, or to ships in the Persian Gulf – or be used to attack Iran.
WHAT IT DOES
It imposes restrictions on Pentagon deployments, prohibiting the deployment of troops not fully trained, not adequately equipped, and not adequately rested between deployments.
BUT –
It includes a waiver for President Bush to simply state his intention to override those restrictions, allowing him to send in as many untrained, badly equipped and exhausted troops as he wishes.
WHAT IT DOES
Prohibit construction of new permanent bases in Iraq
BUT –
It does nothing to close the existing permanent bases the U.S. has built across Iraq
WHAT IT DOES
Cut 10% of the funding for private military contractors
BUT –
It allows 90% of the 100,000 or so mercenaries who fight alongside the U.S. military to remain in Iraq
WHAT IT DOESN’T DO
The supplemental does not prohibit an unprovoked attack on Iran.
The supplemental does not end the occupation of Iraq.
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Medea Benjamin Responds to the Supplemental at PDA Conference-Part 1



Medea Benjamin Responds to the Supplemental at PDA Conference-Part 2

Marcy Winograd, President of Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles, Gives A Shout-out To the Heroic Peace Actions of Brazen CODEPINKer, Tighe Barry

Dear Progressives,

Let's hear it for Code Pink's Tighe Barry for his protest and subsequent arrest in Washington D.C. today. As the Democratic-controlled House took a vote (218-212, Waters, Woolsey & Lee against) to approve another 100-billion plus supplemental for the US occupation of Iraq, Tighe shouted from the gallery on the floor of the House, "Don't buy Bush's War" and "This blood is on your hands now" and ""650,000 Dead Iraqis, How many more?." Police had to clear a row to get to Tighe, rushing him out of the gallery into the hallway. "Are you arresting me," Tighe asked, just to make sure -- and when the police officer nodded, Tighe figured he'd let it rip in the hallway, too. "Stop funding this war!" After sitting in jail for five hours, Tighe spoke with me, saying that prior to the House vote, he met personally with Congress members Adam Schiff (Pasadena area) and Congressman Waxman (West LA), also with a staffer for Jane Harman -- all of whom told him they were doing the right thing in voting to continue the funding, that MoveOn.org had polled its members and everyone agreed the Democrats should approve the Iraq supplemental. Still a Moveon.org member? Not me, I bowed out of that list this afternoon. For more info on the House vote today, see the two articles below. Phyllis Bennis' talking points spell out exactly what the problem is with this vote, while the explains how members of the Out of Iraq Caucus played a pivotal role. If you're interested in joining anti-war activists at the California Democratic Party convention April 27 - 29 in San Diego, email me at pdlavote@aol.com or visit pdla.org.

Peace, Marcy