Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Steve responds to weblog postings today by me and Jonathon and Dorothea with an acknowledgement that there does need to be long range planning on the part of the peace movement, as with any movement. He writes: What I am saying is that like it or not, it’s policies that make […]
Day: March 31, 2003
Dear Shelley, We are in support of our troops in the Middle East with a program to send hours of Y98 on CD to soldiers. We are also airing station ID’s with snippets of the President’s speeches from the past couple of weeks. Neither of those features are intended to express a pro-war spin […]
Elegant despair
Jonathon writes: Dave adds: �I just hope we�re up to this challenge. With the right leadership, I�m sure we could be. I�m not at all confident we have the right leadership.” We don�t have the right leadership. To put it bluntly, we�re fucked. Unless the anti-war/peace movement can come up with something more sophisticated and useful […]
I am a Peaceblog
Mark posted a list of ‘peaceblogs’ at his weblog. This most likely follows from Doc Searls and his “where are all the peaceblogs” earlier in the month. What Mark doesn’t realize, and Doc didn’t realize, is that all of us who are not for the war are for peace. Everyone of us is a peaceblog. It’s just […]
Being intellectually divorced
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I spent the day today talking about the war in Iraq and possible solutions, about protests and voices. But behind all of this has been the disappointment of hearing people chastise the peace movement — dismissive statements about self-indulgent moralizing. Once, not long ago, before the invasion of Iraq, I wrote that […]
