The Peace Dividend: Some Perspective

To get people to pay attention, you need to get their attention.  That means fresh, exciting new ideas; galvanizing calls to action; relevant, achievable payoffs.  The peace movement can’t survive anymore on high fives, or peace sign t-shirts and bumper stickers.  People just aren’t buying the old tropes.

.. I’m talking about the ‘people power’ of the bottom 160 million Americans who are hurting much more than you and I

.. most of the people we need to reach, don’t want any more talk.  THEY WANT ACTION!

.. But let’s be honest.  This degradation has been in the works for a long time and had a good head start long before he took office.