All we are saying is give peace a chance.

[sad sally]

http://www.october2011.org/?du

WHO WE ARE

We are organizations that work for peace, justice, civil rights, jobs, green energy, a clean environment, a secure retirement, healthcare, infrastructure, education, joy, and other human needs.

October 2011 is the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of the 2012 federal austerity budget. It is time to light the spark that sets off a true democratic, nonviolent transition to a world in which people are freed to create just and sustainable solutions.

I will be there pledge:

"I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that criminal occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will nonviolently resist the corporate machine until our resources are invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning ..."

[Newest Reality]

1. If you can manage to take obscene profit

out of the equation, peace will erupt with out the need for much more than nurturing and mutual agreement.

War is an industry that promotes its own agenda and sells it to people. They win. We always lose.

[csziggy]

2. This has to be repeated every generation

http://youtu.be/tlKX-m17C7U

[sad sally]

3. We applaud protestors around the world - time to take the message of peace

to the streets of Washington D.C.

[csziggy]

4. It's been there - but no coverage at all

Same as most of the protests in the video from forty years ago. There was nearly no coverage in the news and when the protests were covered they were either marginalized or characterized as violent. I lived through the time and did not realize until later how little our so-called news organizations told us.

And that has not changed - in the last ten years there have been massive protests in this country but little coverage.

[Lifelong Protester]

5. Who is unrecc'ing peace?

if we don't get out of these wars soon, there will be very little left of the USA as we know it. We are wasting lives and money on two senseless actions that only continue for profit, I believe.

We are going to wreck ourselves on the rocks of Iraq and Afghanistan.