Great Article On Today's New Breed of Peace Activists...

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Forget the tie-dyed '60s; today's activists are coming from the mainstream

By: GARY WARTH - Staff Writer

One woman crossed the country alone in a motor home. Others united for a silent march. Yet another thinks laughter is the answer.

The peace movement has many faces these days. Sometimes there are disagreements about the meaning of peace and how it can be achieved. But whether it's by observing a silent vigil or sponsoring a federal bill to create a Cabinet-level department, more people seem to be speaking about peace today than at any other time since the 1960s.

Galvanized for the most part by opposition to the Iraq war, today's peace advocates are not merely a throwback to the 1960s. Tie-dyed shirts and long hair still are well represented, but so are politicians, members of the clergy, lawyers and business owners.


In October 2002, five months before the actual start of the Iraq war, 70 peace and justice organizations met in Washington, D.C., and formed United for Peace and Justice. Today there are 1,300 local and national chapters, including North County Coalition for Peace and Justice in Oceanside.

More recently, a countywide coalition of clergy called San Diego Faith Leaders for Peace formed to protest the war in Iraq and promote a vision of peace that its members said would extend beyond the end of the war.

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http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/04/24/lifeandtimes/12_42_294_21_06.txt

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1. "When I lost Walter Cronkite I new I had lost America".

same as it ever was...

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2. The author buys into corporate media and fascist stereotypes about

the 60's. Everyone, from priests and those with inherited, wealth to middle class yippies, proles, atheists and completely disinherited outcasts, played a part. Other than for that bit of ignorance, a good opinion piece.

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3. Just in the headline...

and he probably didn't write that. Content-wise, he seemed pretty plugged in to the current organizations.

[ConsAreLiars]

4. That's true, and my fault for attributing the title of the piece

to the author. I forgot, briefly, that task is up to someone else at the newspaper. A good article, but one that was equally descriptive of the '60's, and not a contrast.

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5. *kick*