About This Site
Why this site?
On November 30, 2006, Portland City Council considered and passed a resolution to bring US occupying forces out of Iraq and redirect resources back towards urgent local needs.
Since November 30 is my birthday, I set a personal goal of mobilizing 1,000 people in support of the resolution (with a lot of help from my friends). I collected about 200 signatures, got ten people to the hearing. So… what then? I kept doing little peace things here and there. Sending emails when asked, going to forums. I helped with the March 18 07 march in Portland, one of the largest ones in the country to mark the anniversary of our invasion of Iraq. I figure that since I fliered a major thoroughfare in advance of that march, that’s maybe reaching another 50 people… still not 1,000 people. hmmnn…
I’m just going to keep on doing stuff until I’ve reached way more than 1,000 Portlanders with information about how they can stop the occupation of Iraq and hopefully the invasion of other countries. And writing about it, and encouraging others to speak up for peace.
And after all, this a marathon, not a sprint.
You can send suggestions/ideas for things folks can do to kathleen =at= nov30 = dot= org.
Kathleen