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Show THE ZEPHYR/ APRIL-MAY Yesterday, Alison and I were taking long looks back, to all the demos and vigils against the wars. So many wars, so overwhelming the injustices. We carried petitions and joined protests against Truman’s Korean war, against Kennedy’s Vietnam war,Johnson’s Vietnam war, Nixon’s Vietnam war (50,000 KIAs); against Reagan’s aggression in Nicaragua and 2006 Sa J ie Panama; against Bush the First’s invasion of Iraq; against Bush the Second’s invasion of Iraq. Have I left out some of the wars? Probably. Our activism was simple enough, though at times a chore. It wasn’t anything we were ashamed of or wanted to opt out of. We were not DY POW COLDWCLL | Ye ioe E RG : PERS a eee : u heads of organizations, hardly ever spokespersons, never even ae to jail. We simply showed up when it seemed the thing to do. We decided it had been an adventure in tragic times, an adventure inadvertent and unplanned, because history never stops. Surprises, always. Not always bad. 1 : : 0 The Realtor who knows what's REALLY going on in Moab! : Our conversation moved on, to the peace action in the final half of my new novel, Breakout. \n that fiction the author was having a great time, imagining a “what if.” (2) It began with three women in South Dakota. Yes, a conservative place. So is the territory where Alison and I live now, but we've lived here a long time and know that “conservative” doesn’t even begin to describe the grand sweep of opinions, of doubts, of struggles, which means being alert, which means My greatest Adventure is finding Good Homes for Locals and... Good Homes for orphaned animals. that rhetoric from on high is always being measured against on-the-ground reality. Let’s listen to three (fictional) women in South Dakota, on-line, issuing a call to defend the nation, organizing a resistance... Here is what can be done. On a certain Saturday, very soon, each one of us takes a nice big sign that you have made yourself and you take that sign to a place where one highway meets another and you stand there from seven in the morning till nine. Take a break. Go home or go somewhere to talk things over with whoever is with you. Talk about what So many wars, so overwhelming the injustices... We carried petitions and joined protests against Truman's Korean War, Kennedy's Vietnam War, Johnson's Vietnam War, Nixon's Vietnam War, Reagan's aggression against Nicaragua and Panama, rye seers lbw “150 EAST CENTER ST. MOAB. UT 84532 Bush the Ist's invasion of Iraq, Bush the 2nd's... HAVE | LEFT ANY WARS . | BUS: 435.259.5693 OUT??? 800.634.0770 judy@moabproperties.com CELL: 260.9553 www.moabproperties.com (each office is independently owned and operated) happened, think carefully about every little thing, then go back for noon hour traffic. That’s all you have to do. These standings will be happening all across our nation. nation. We are the ones. We are the ones who make this We will be showing each other where we stand. Words are not enough and you know this as well as we do. No excuses. Just put your body out there. This will be a grand showing, FOR US. Not for TV, not for the rulers, not for experts who are not out there with us, not for anybody who thinks they can boost their selfish egos by making fun of us. You are thinking this showing will not stop war. You are right, it won't. We will set another date, another weekend so you can’t say sorry, have to work, sorry, have to go to class. We will stand again, each little group of us will learn how to do it better in the next show. And the next and the next. do it pertectly the first time. We will find ways to do it. We will learn. We will not Are you ready? Somebody has to set the date. We will let you know. 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