Seize the Day

Dennis Perrin dperrin at comcast.net
Sat Feb 15 15:12:27 PST 2003



> Just back home from the march - it wasn't supposed to be a march, it
> was supposed to be a fixed demo, but we marched anyway. The whole
> east side of Manhattan was packed with people - the organizers are
> claiming 500,000, and it seems entirely plausible. About to transfer
> some photos and make a little web page. It was totally splendidly
> inspiring.
>
> Doug

It looked inspiring on CNN, which covered a lot of it (with correspondent Maria Hinojosa in the streets of my beloved NYC -- was on a panel with her at Columbia discussing the 1990 Nicaraguan elections, great person), and covered the demos worldwide, including one in LA led by the likes of Martin Sheen, Rob Reiner, Angelica Huston, and Alfre Woodard. The resistance to this Gulf War far outweighs what I was actively part of in '90-91. Amazing. Yet I still feel a bit empty all the same.

Saddam is not the Sandinistas, nor Salvadoran trade unionists. He is Noriega times ten. It used to be that the peace movement, or the movement against US imperialism, had a stake in any potential fight. Apart from noises made on behalf of the Iraqi people (and not all Iraqi people are opposed to Bush toppling Saddam), there really isn't something even remotely positive for anti-interventionists to grab onto. I mean, no war on Iraq? Okay. But what instead?

DP



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