December 16th Came and Went

Notice anything on the mainstream news about an anti-war rally in DC?  Yea, me neither.  However, the rally was reported at the Huffington Post, at Democracy Now, at Raw Story and at Real News, amongst other alternative news sites (see David Lindorff at This Can’t Be Happening, for a good write up).  There were 131 veterans arrested at the rally, including Ray McGovern, Daniel Ellsberg and Chris Hedges.

Here are links to some pictures that the mainstream Press did not bother to use:  the Count, and UPI (pics run from number 5 to 10).

And here are links to some videos.  I sang along with this first video.  I credit my parents with my knowledge of the songs; I was very young during the Vietnam War protests and Civil Rights Movement, but I learned a lot of these at my mother’s knee.

Here’s Daniel Ellsberg’s speech.  This was very good.  He discusses Bradley Manning and Julian Assange.

If you only watch one video, watch this one.  Chris Hedges’ speech, interspersed with comments from the veterans, is very effective.  It’s linked off Stop These Wars.  And it’s on youtube here: