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CHICAGO IS THE 42ND AMERICAN CITY TO PASS ANTI IRAQ WAR RESOLUTION (SO FAR)

Kevin | 16.01.2003 23:03

Chicago's city council passed an Anti Iraq War Resolution today (Thurs Jan. 16). For more information re the other cities go to:

 http://www.citiesforpeace.org





Chicago's city council today voted and passed an anti-Iraq war resolution making Chicago the 42nd American city to pass similiar resolutions. Other cities include:


Seattle
New Haven
San Francisco
Ann Arbor
Oakland
Detroit
Baltimore
Santa Fe
Madison
Burlington
Eugene
Philadelphia
Brookline
Evanston
Des Moines
Albuquerque
Washington DC.

and many, many more...

For more information concerning the list of cities that have passed (or are mounting a compaign to pass) anti Iraq war resolutions (or to learn how to mount a campaign), go to:

 http://www.citiesforpeace.org

Kevin

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Explain?

17.01.2003 12:18

This sounds really positive, but what does an "anti war resolution" actually mean,or amount to? Are these city authorities undertaking concrete steps against supporting the war (practically, financially, whatever) or is it purely the elevation to publicity of a collective moral standpoint? I followed up the leads but it didn't really seem to tell me much.

Anyone?

Call me stupid

It is what it is.....

17.01.2003 21:27

It is what it is. It doesn't have any "teeth" but it is indicative of a widening of the anti-war sentiment that is over-taking America. Perhaps, more than anything, it's a vehicle for anti-war publicity. If you go to google.com news, and punch in anti war, protest, Iraq, you'll get almost a 100 pages news articles that have been published in the last three or so weeks. That's several thousand such articles. Anti war resolutions, like public protests in general "lubricate" the voice of protest, allow those who are on now on side-lines to jump in and take a stand. It's good. Very, very good.

Kevin