Works In Progress


author : Emily Lardner

New Strategy Needed: "Bringing It Home: Local Organizing Against the War"

June 2005

Photo: Port activists at USNS Pililaau

Strategizing event on July 9

by Emily Lardner

In the early 1930's, John Dewey wrote that the public has no hands except those of individuals. There is no public, only individuals who decide to act on behalf of themselves and of others, including people who live far away. The U.S. is engaged in a war that is illegal under international law, a war that has no justification. Hundreds of thousands of people are suffering and dying, their lives and homes are being destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. have expressed their view that the war is wrong. A majority of Americans think the . . .

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