Here's a very heartening, up-to-date list of cities that have either passed anti-war/anti-Patriot Act resolutions, or have such resolutions pending. I'm posting this mainly to urge everyone to support the passage of such resolutions in their own communities (see  http://www.citiesforpeace.org for instructions). But also because it further demonstrates that America is NOT unified behind Bush, and because it gives the lie to those who say that this is a tiny, inconsequential fringe movement.

The Right is quick to suggest that all this is the work of the usual patchouli-drenched malcontents. But NO president in the 20th century has ever been confronted with such a widespread display of pre-emptive outrage over an intended action! You don't get resolutions of this type passed in Washington DC and Chicago and Des Moines by being a bunch of out-of-touch flakes...you do it by having a broad base of support and sympathy that cuts across political and class lines. And by having a much greater popular understanding of, and concern for, Constitutional rights than certain people are willing to acknowledge.

Here's the list:

ALASKA

PENDING: Anchorage

CALIFORNIA

PASSED: Arcata, Berkeley, Mendocino County, Oakland, San Fernando, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Sebastopol, Topanga Canyon, West Hollywood

PENDING: Los Angeles, Sacramento

COLORADO

PASSED: Boulder, Nederland, Telluride

PENDING: Crestone, Denver, La Veta, Saguache, Silver Plume, Walsenburg

CONNECTICUT

PASSED: New Haven, Salisbury

PENDING: Cornwall

FLORIDA

PENDING: Gainesville, Manatee County, St. Petersburg

HAWAII

PENDING: Honolulu

IDAHO

PASSED: Blaine County

ILLINOIS

PASSED: Chicago, Evanston

PENDING: Charleston, DeKalb, East Moline, Moline, Oak Park, Rock Island, Silvis, Urbana

INDIANA

PASSED: Gary

IOWA

PASSED: Des Moines

PENDING: Clive, Davenport, Decorah

MARYLAND

PASSED: Baltimore, Takoma Park

PENDING: Cheverly

MAINE

PENDING: Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, Portland

MASSACHUSSETTS

PASSED: Brookline, Northampton, Somerville

PENDING: Amherst

MICHIGAN

PASSED: Ann Arbor, Detroit, Ferndale, Kalamazoo, Traverse City

PENDING: Alma, Berkley, Charlevoix, Clawson, Grand Rapids, Hamtramck, Lake Orion, Lansing, Livonia, Marquette, Petoskey, Plymouth, Resort Township, Royal Oak, Southfield, Troy

MISSOURI

PENDING: Columbia

MONTANA

PENDING: Helena

NEW JERSEY

PASSED: Jersey City

PENDING: Bloomfield

NEW MEXICO

PASSED: Santa Fe

NEW YORK

PASSED: Danby, Ithaca, New Paltz, Rochester, Syracuse, Woodstock

PENDING: Cooperstown, New York City

NORTH CAROLINA

PASSED: Carrboro

PENDING: Chapel Hill

OHIO

PASSED: Cleveland

PENDING: Columbus, Dayton

OREGON

PASSED: Corvallis, Eugene

PENDING: Multnomah County, Salem

PENNSYLVANIA

PASSED: Haines Township, Philadelphia, York

TEXAS

PENDING: Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Galveston, Houston

UTAH

PENDING: Salt Lake City

VERMONT

PASSED: Burlington

VIRGINIA

PENDING: Charlottesville

WASHINGTON

PASSED: Olympia, Seattle, Tacoma

PENDING: Bellingham, Spokane

WASHINGTON DC (Passed)

WEST VIRGINIA

PENDING: Charleston

WISCONSIN

PASSED: Madison, Milwaukee