>At the 2nd UFPJ National Assembly on February 19-21, 2005, Military
>Families Speak Out, as well as American Friends Service Committee, Vietnam
>Veterans against the War, and Veterans for Peace, put forward a proposal
>for "a campaign of state by state local organizing and action focusing on
>the deployment of the National Guard, leading to outcomes including (but
>not limited to) local resolutions, referenda and hearings before state
>legislatures and other local/state political bodies on the local impacts of
>the war in Iraq," with a view to putting "local/state-based pressure on
>local politicians, state legislators and Governors to oppose the use of the
>National Guard in the war in Iraq." The assembly adopted it unanimously.
>If the campaign doesn't become simply occasions for lobbying politicians,
>it should be promising, and at the very least it will help Military
>Families Speak Out and other organizations that get involved in it grow.
I agree with this. But more than just growing, the National Guard campaign is something that can have broad support and would indeed decisively dismantle the ability t continue in Iraq and for the near term make large scale invasions impossible.
Joel Wendland