Israel’s War Against Palestine: Documenting the Military Occupation of Palestinian and Arab Lands

CODEPINK on Jon Stewart: We do it loud and proud

24 September 2010

By CODEPINK – 24 Sept 2010
www.codepink.org/

October 2, march on DC with One Nation: March to Rebuild America and End War!

CODEPINK

CODEPINK

Do you love The Daily Show as much as we do? Maybe like a lot of us, you go to bed with Jon Stewart four nights a week, and find him a fun, smart companion at the end of the day. Jon apparently doesn’t feel quite as cozy with us, however. When he recently announced his “Rally to Restore Sanity” in DC to counter the extremists he feels are dominating our national political discussion, he included CODEPINK among the “loud folks” getting in the way of civil rhetoric. He also equated progressives calling George Bush a war criminal with right-wingers calling Obama Hitler! Jon, seriously??

Now, we are used to being called loud. We are proud of being loud. In our post-9/11-24/7 news cycle, we’ve learned that the more audacious and outrageous the action, the more likely we are to keep the anti-war message in the national conversation. Jon Stewart says he wants to restore sanity to Washington; we wish he could understand that we aim for this, as well. We wish he could see that all the “loud folks” on the left are actually part of a rational discussion about the future of our nation as we irrationally engage in illegal occupations. What is more insane, after all, than unjust war? What is more outrageous than a US foreign policy of democracy at the barrel of a gun? And really, what is saner than peace?

So we will be at Jon Stewart’s rally on October 30 and will try to use our best inside voices to bring our anti-war message (no promises on the volume, though).

And bring your loudest outside voice to DC on October 2 for the true progressive convergence, One Nation: March to Rebuild America and End War.

We are excited to join a coalition of unionists, civil rights groups, immigrant rights leaders and social justice advocates to remind Washington to Fund Jobs, Not War. Let’s do it loud and proud.

And now here’s your moment of Zen,
Dana, Farida, Gayle, Janet, Jean, Joan, Jodie, Lisa, Medea, Nancy, Rae, Tighe, Valerie and Zaccai

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