Last night I diaried the first reports coming in from this month's Third Friday, the second iteration of Iraq Moratorium Day. There I concentrated on some personal heroes, the Sewanee, TN crew and lessons they embody about pushing outside your comfort zone.
Tonight the Iraq Moratorium website has a couple of dozen reports in and I am going to be a bit more scattershot, to give y'all a flavor of what's coming in and see if I can tempt you to look at all the nifty reports over the next couple of days. And we got some good pictures in, too, leading to my title lament--One Pissed Off Liberal could take excerpts from these little reports and the best of the pictures, mix them in with some appropriate historical quotes and '60s images and skein the whole thing together with his observations and create a mini-masterpiece. Well, know your limits, I guess...
I'll just praise a few of the folks who have checked in so far.
Some have reported steps they took on their own, like the sister from Santa Cruz who noted that she posted a poem about the opening days of the war on her blog. Damned if it isn't a really, really good poem!
More have done quick summaries on organized events they took part in, like these folks in Hobart, IN:
Faced with the usual suburban lack of center, they went to the mall! And they walked around it in matching anti-war t-shirts, getting into conversations with shoppers.
Or the vets and military families in Naples, FL who did a traditional roadside vigil and summed it up as "a very satisfying event":
Or the members of the Women's Studies Club at Radford University in Virginia who write:
We sold t-shirts for $5 that read:
make ____, not war
We had markers for customizing, people chose art, pie, love, progress...
Or...naaahh, go check it out yourself.