Just who the hell do you think HAS been coming out to antiwar protests over the past 5 years? Not only for the downtown cattle drives, but in neighborhoods across the city. We ARE teachers and city paramedics, RN's and sanitation workers, electricians, plumbers and temps, cab drivers and clerical workers, college and high school students from all over the city . We are Iraq war vets and family members of those loved ones have paid the ultimate price for this war. We are African American and Latino, Puerto Rican and Mexican, Irish and Arab, Muslims and Jews, Christians and pagans, atheists and agnostics.

We are NOT paid union bureaucrats, politicians on the make, self-appointed pundits, NGO staffers on the grant gravy train or well heeled media consultants with fat city contracts eager to pimp the antiwar movement for a little street cred in an election year. And that's who are calling the shots for this rally. And we'll see if they can deliver.