The Peace Movement
How Americans are fighting back against war and violence
by Katherine Brengle (a 23-year-old writer, college student and peace activist) AlterNet

I am a liberal. I am a pacifist. I am against the military-industrial complex.

What are the alternatives? To be a conservative, warmongering, overzealous capitalist? I'll take my chances holding onto a little idealism.

The wars that are fought on this beautiful planet are always about one thing – money. You can argue that wars are fought over human rights violations, to protect people in harm's way, and to overthrow tyrants, but you would be wrong. When you boil down war to its essence, to the reasons why the powerful have chosen it, you will find the almighty dollar.

Stop the madness. Join the peace movement – we aren't wimps. We aren't washed-up, pathetic, whiny liberals looking for political points. We just don't want to see one more mother lose her son to a roadside bomb. We don't want to see one more child starve and die due to sanctions and cut-off food supplies as a result of war and violence. We don't want another prisoner, innocent or otherwise, to be tortured by representatives of the United States, or any other country for that matter.

If that is something to be ashamed of, then there is little hope of salvation for the world and the country we so love.

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