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Article: Peace movement speedily mobilizes: old guard and new organize protests against Bush war plans. (Analysis).(George W. Bush)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- December 20, 2002
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The most surprising thing about the current peace movement is not that it has tapped a new generation of activists (it has), or that it is able to mobilize thousands on any given day to protest Bush administration policy (it can), or even that it gets a share of mainstream media exposure--our 24/7 cable news culture guarantees that.
It is the speed with which the movement has grown and the level of organization that exists within its managerial ranks.
As he makes the rounds of news conferences, prayer vigils and peace demonstrations, National Council of Churches General Secretary Robert Edgar compares the current moment with January 1975. Edgar was a ...