2013 Isn't Soon Enough: The Anti-War Movement Post-Bush

"2013 Isn't Soon Enough: The Anti-War Movement Post-Bush" was the opening plenary of the Young Democratic Socialists' conference titled "Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible."

Filmed on Friday, February 15, 2008, the panel featured Democratic Socialists of America (DSA is YDS's parent organization) members: * Bill Fletcher Jr. - Executive Editor of the Black Commentator, former president of TransAfrica Forum, former AFL-CIO Education Director. * Frances Fox Piven - Distinguished sociologist at CUNY Grad Center, author of The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Honorary Chair. * Stephen Eric Bronner - Professor of Political Science & Comparative Literature at Rutgers, author of Peace Out of Reach, Socialism Unbound, and Blood and Soil. * Noel "Chachi" Camara - Young Democratic Socialists Coordinating Committee and Iraq Veterans Against the War


YDS is proud to have sponsored this event as part of the larger Iraq Moratorium movement. For more information about YDS check out www.ydsusa.org or email yds@dsausa.org. For more information about DSA check out www.dsausa.org or email dsa@dsausa.org.

Please excuse the feedback hum, our microphone was too close to a burnt speaker!

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[peoplestelevision]

Sorry about the hum everyone, our microphone was too close to a burnt speaker.

[WhatCanIsay100]

You hate this country this much get the hell out!! Go to europe where they take 70% of your pay check!

[Elkotend]

2013 is too soon. 2014, 2015, maybe.

[Robbajor]

guess you're going to have to get one less birthday present. I know for a fact Dr. Bronner went to Iraq, Iran, and the West Bank.

[rosettastoned451]

Umm... welcome to Youtube. Not the best place to have an educated discussion. And 'bovine?' Really?

[mbears24]

You're all bovine fucks who have merely scratched the surface of anything half-logical with this message board discussion.

[msaphrodite23]

Yes! I agree!

[newwordz]

I believe I'd give a year of my life to see one of these whiffleheads spend a whole day in Iraq!

[UnfukwitableNINJA]

did you mean "their" you dumb capitalist b*tch

[rallen33]

a bunch of pussies muslim extremest are looking to end the us so war is needed to end there ideas an wishes all democrats would do would cry and hide and let them take over

[cuervo1957]

Thought is the most powerful thing in the universe, so with that in mind, I suggest we stop saying we are anti-war and start saying we are "PRO-PEACE". Anyone agree?