"We're not just building a camp, we are trying to build a movement,"

[happy_liberal]

"We're not just building a camp, we are trying to build a movement," Sheehan said in a telephone interview from California on Thursday.

"Obama has just been a continuation of Bush's policies, and that's why I have no closure. I don't know if I ever will get closure."

But in the midst of a devastating recession, a White House preoccupation with pushing through health-care reform and a U.S. capital currently awash in political scandal, there's no question the wars overseas get precious little attention.

The late Ted Kennedy's son, Patrick, a congressman from Rhode Island, railed against the lack of media attention being paid to America's escalating military presence in the Middle East earlier this week.

In an emotional rant on the floor of the House of Representatives during debate over a resolution on withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, Kennedy characterized the media's coverage of the resignation of Democratic congressman Eric Massa as "despicable." Massa has been accused of groping his male staff during tickle fights.

"You know what cynicism is?" Kennedy shouted, his voice cracking.

"There's one, two press people in this gallery. We're talking about Eric Massa 24/7 on the TV, we're talking about war and peace, $3 billion dollars, a thousand lives, and no press? No press? .... The press of the United States is not covering the significant issue of national importance, and that's the laying of the lives down in the nation, for the service of our country. It is despicable, the national press corps right now."

Sheehan says both the Bush and Obama administrations are to blame for the antipathy. Since Sept. 11, 2001, she said, they've been doing everything possible to frighten Americans into accepting war as a necessary evil.

"We have had two successive administrations that have used 9-11 to keep us afraid, to make us think that if we don't use the military, then these bogeymen are coming to get us," she said. "It's one thing when Bush said it, but when someone like Obama starts saying it, people start to believe it. Americans are scared and confused."

http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/03/12/13202861.html

[mbperrin]

1. Let's see. What happened when the children of the 50s became

convinced there was no tomorrow? Oh, yeah, they became hippies, yippies, and other counterculture types.

That took about 15 years of Soviet atomic boogeymen. So, 2001 + 15 = 2016. Stay tuned.

Sheehan and Kennedy are both absolutely right. We're being destroyed fiscally and spiritually by this.

[happy_liberal]

2. yes

and MLK agrees with you
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death"

[gimama]

3. I *KNOW* this will be on the teeveee!

Vets for PEACE, Military Families Speak OUT, IVAW (Iraq Vets Against war) & concerned Others are camping out NOW, on the Mall, in DC. Big PEACE rally Sat, hell's anniversary.
Deatails at:
www.march20.org
www.answercoalition.org
www.Peaceoftheaction.org
www.afterdowningstreet.org

& please help me remind msm that THIS is an event worthy of attention!
Please share widely!

[happy_liberal]

5. I'm sure they will even cover it ahead of time like they did for the recent tea bag protests

and the House will issue information to all Representatives about how to welcome them providing light snacks and coffee like they did for the teabaggers as well......

Dem House leadership memo: Plan hospitable greeting for Tea Party protesters
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7929192

[gimama]

7. YOU are reading my Mind : )

& WE seem to share the sarcasm-vibe:)
Keeeeep sharing this NEWS!

[happy_liberal]

8. hehe

:hi:

[happy_liberal]

4. from peace of the action website

We need as many people as possible who realize that time is running short for us to truly affect change by commitment and dedication to humanity through the end to the US Empire (and its subsidiaries).

POTA direct actions will begin on Monday, March 22nd.

Individual commitment will entail an at least a once a week CR mission and support to the group at large through contributing to the running and infrastructure of our encampment and the care and feeding of activists.

Beginning March 13th, we will erect a tent headquarters just off the Ellipse between the White House and the Washington Monument (on Constitution between 15th & 17th) to feed and otherwise care for everyone who participates.

Your commitment can range from the entire action: Until our demands are met; or any other chunk of time that you are available.

[gimama]

6. Thank YOU for posting!

I appreciate this!:hi:
Wonder if THIS will get the msm attention "200 teabaggers" got earlier this week..?! I fb'd Rachel on this early in the week, I HOPE(!) SHE will cover it!

[happy_liberal]

9. Thanks for keeping it kicked

:pals:

[gimama]

10. kick for PEACE!

[happy_liberal]

11. another

:kick: