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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (7907)	10/8/2002 1:11:33 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Tens of Thousands Rally in New York and Other Cities to Say No to War With Iraq A Peace Movement Emerges by Sarah Ferguson The Village Voice October 7th, 2002 5:30 PM villagevoice.com <<...In New York, organizers were joined by Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney of Georgia and several celebrity activists, including Martin Sheen, who plays the U.S. president on NBC's The West Wing. Sheen read an excerpt of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech and invoked the diplomacy used by President Kennedy to avert war during the Cuban missile crisis. "This is the first public debate that I've really seen," Sheen commented backstage, "so I'm grateful to New Yorkers for being here today. I can't remember a time in my country, in my life, when there has been such an overall stifling of public debate on such a critical issue." Taking on Bush's effort to impose a new U.S. doctrine of preemptive strikes, actress Susan Sarandon demanded, "Do we the people really want to be a new Rome that imposes its rule by the use of overwhelming force whenever its interests are threatened? Even perceived potential threats? We do not want endless warfare."...>> <<...But Sarandon's companion, Tim Robbins, also cautioned the antiwar crowd to be careful in the way it frames its dissent. "This is not the chickens coming home to roost," Robbins said. "Al Qaeda's actions have hurt this burgeoning peace movement more than any other. "Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life," Robbins argued. "Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are all about . . . . In the name of fear and fighting terror, we are giving the reins to oil men looking for a distraction from their disastrous economic performance."...>> <<...There was also widespread anger at the mainstream media for failing to represent antiwar views. "The establishment—AOL, Disney, GE, Viacom, Murdoch media—they're not going to bring us pictures of the Iraqi dead and dying any more than they did in 1991 [during the Gulf War]," said Laura Flanders of New Yorkers Say No to War. "They aren't going to show us Iraq any more than we've seen the bombings of Kandahar or Tora Bora or Mazar-e Sharif," she told the cheering crowd. Many said they were skeptical about the real motives behind President Bush's stepped-up campaign against Saddam Hussein...>>