ConNiPtioNs

Today was the big peace rally in DC. I had it on C-SPAN and I thought that I would check to see if the cable news channels were covering it so I switched to CNN and there was a full screen shot of orangish-red clouds and a big title: CLOUDS of WAR. MSNBC had on Headliners and Legends about Russell Crowe.


So, anyhow, there were some very good speakers at the rally and it looked like there were a lot of people there in the cold. I wish that they would have focused on the anti-war message instead of evry other speaker pushing their own issue. I heard speeches about gay rights, abortion, free Palestine, free Mumia Abu Jamal, etc. That is the problem with the left; instead of coming together today under one issue and pushing that message exclusively, they continued to get off message and alienate more people with each speaker.

Patti Smith was there towards the end and got it right when she said "We are not a black voice, we are not a white voice, we are not an American voice...we are a human voice, one voice" then she sang People Have the Power. C-span is replaying it tonight at 8pm.