Y'all remember five years ago?  Were any of you on the streets with Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW) in downtown San Francisco five years ago?

I wasn't.  I was not on the streets because I had a brand-new baby who needed to eat every two hours, so I couldn't risk arrest.  I spent the day volunteering in the legal office, taking calls from folks in the streets.

That baby is five years old now.

This war has been going on for almost her entire life.

And it's not just Iraq that is suffering.  Iraq Vets Against the War said, "For every bomb dropped on Baghdad, a bomb explodes on the Gulf Coast."  And they're right; all the resources used for the war are resources stolen from communities.  Where are those trillions coming from?  From schools, from publicly-funded health care, from basic infrastructure and human needs.  What could our communities do with 2.8 trillion dollars?