Rickey's Prayer for Peace

As the Obama administration prepares the biggest defense (mostly for warmaking) budget in history, peace activists plan demonstrations March 20 in Washington DC and Thursday March 18 in downtown Chicago (5:30 p.m. at Dearborn & Adams Streets Federal Plaza). http://m20coalition.net/index.html

Friends Committee for National Legislation, the Quaker peace/justice/economy lobby in D.C., reports on the latest Congressional initiatives to cut off money for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Cleveland, Ohio is planning to introduced a "privileged House resolution" which will force debate and get Congress to look at its Constitutional responsibilities in decisions regarding war.
http://fcnl.wordpress.com/ Knowing the vested interests making money off of killing people here and everywhere, it will take a lot of demonstrating and politicking to stop this war, but it is doable. We did it 40 years ago with Vietnam.No matter what tactics we use, the war is unwinnable.

Hey! If white middle class activists can get together with African Americans, Latinos, Asians and working class and increasingly growing numbers of poor folks, we have a CLEAR MAJORITY to end this war and rebuild our cities, our schools, our environment, and our lives.

Here's my approximate quote (forgive me Senator if i didn't get this exact) of Rickey's prayer which closed our community meeting on Monday March 1:

"And God, tonight when Barack is lying in bed with Michelle, please have her whisper in his ear that he's got to get us out of all these wars, bring our troops home and spend the money on what we need to do here instead of on killing folks that have been fighting for years and don't want us around. And whatever is going on with global warming, all these earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, and snow in places that don't have snow, and tsunamis all over the place...I know that human industries have contributed to messing with Mother Earth, but You're bigger than all of it and you put us here, so please help us try to straighten it all out."