Vigil for peace

[suspectclass]

Anyone interested in joining their local candlelit vigil for peace can find out where it is and get other information here: http://www.moveon.org/vigil/

This is a world-wide event, peaceful and quiet for just an hour (or a half-hour, in some cases) tomorrow night. If you're in Chicago, I know there are a few downtown, one at Roscoe and Halsted, and four or five on the south side (two in Hyde Park!) There are quite a few in the Pioneer Valley, I'll be at the one in Northampton. Seriously, people are holding vigils all over the world, including someone (a research team Iguess) in Antarctica. So yeah. Go!

Comments

[zzrg.livejournal.com]

I am curious about the moveon PAC and their motives and philosophy. While I approve of some of the things they are doing, I am wary of exactly what their agenda is. It is very hard to tell from their website.

I like the idea of vigils, but dislike the idea that a political organization is pulling the strings.

My take on it

[masscooper.livejournal.com]

Well, it seems to me that MoveOn fascilitates more than it pulls strings. Also, groups that participate in politics are political groups. It's not a campaign to elect one specific person, and certainly it has a particular leaning, but that's sort of the name of the game.