i'm new here... sorry to see such few members. is three really a tribe... or more like a band? hmmm....
i supported dean... and of course the new project...democracy for america.

PLEASE READ!!!

i just got this book from the library entitled with the subject line by robert jensen. so eloquent and hope inspiring... and you KNOW you can use some of that!

i was so struck by an excerpt from his forward that i must post it in hopes that it may ring some bells.

he speaks to fear and those who inspire it...

and i quote...

"My goal here tonight is simple: I am afraid, and i want you to be afraid, too. The men in the white house and the pentagon have unleashed the dogs of war, but i fear they have unleashed something far worse than any war we have ever seen.

I remember the beginning of the first gulf war. I remember the sadness and fear that i felt when that war began. I remember how, day by day, as the bodies piled up, i would die a little inside. It was a difficult time. In many ways i have not recovered from that; it was a harsh coming of age for me.

But this feels different. This feels far worse. This doesn't feel like a war. Let us name what has happened: Not just a war but a new insanity has been unleashed upon the world. An unlimited war that our leaders counsel might go on indefinitely. A war against ememies in the 'shadowy networks', which means we will never know when our shadowy enemy has vanished. This is quite possibly the policy makers shot at the final and permanent militarization of U.S. society. Add to that the possibility of more terrorist attacks from the fringe of arab and muslim population even more convinced of the depravity of americans, and the possibility of entire countries destabablized. Are you scared? How can you not be?

This insanity was touched off by the fanatacism of men who believe they understand God's will nad have the right to kill to bring about that vision. This insanity has now been furthered by the fanatacism of men who believe they have a right to run the planet by force to protect thier privilege.

These men have drawn the lines and told us that we must choose sides. I will choose sides, but not on thier terms. I will choose not just to speak for the peace that our leaders have rejected, but also to speak hard truths about the unjust world that our leaders seek to maintain.

Our president is right there is no neutral ground.

So, let the men who talk with God and the men who play with power draw their lines. and let the rest of us step outside of the lines into a circle. Let us not only join hands in prayer but also lock arms in the barricades of dissent and civil dis-obedience. Let us build a movement that can steer a nation off the path of war and onto the path toward justice.

Let us take the presidents final words from Sunday and make them our own: 'We will not waver, we will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail' at the task of our lifetimes, the task of creating justice where there is so much oppression, the task of regaining sanity in a world gone mad."

yes!
c