Cross-posted at My Left Wing and The Booman Tribune.
I wanted to write and thank everyone for their participation in the Petals for Peace campaing. I also wanted to let folks in the wide, wide blogosphere know that this action will be continuing forward. So don't forget us.
First, a recap. This started in March when we delivered about 14 dozen individual flowers to a pro-war U.S. Congressman, asking him to stop the war. We continued that protest last week, delivering another 300 or so flowers. And faxes of flowers. And mailed flowers. It is hard to keep track of exact numbers. But we think we've delivered about 500 flowers so far. It was really cool when I got an unsolicited call from a rank-in-file UAW member, who took up a collection from our friends in the labor movement, and delivered 13 dozen flowers in one-fell swoop.
It was also cool when our blog coverage resulted in deliveries from Australia, Spain, Argentina and Italy, not to mention several of our fifty states.
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