Women in Black

The War Machines go rolling through Flagstaff, AZ. Across the street stood 4 protesters, 2 members of Women in Black and their assumed husbands.

I wondered how long they'd been standing there, why there weren't more of them. I assumed that these transports were a regular occurrence and tried to imagine how it felt to live in a town where signs of war clanked by with the sound of some ominous clockwork.

It seemed the people's efforts were futile. Who, of the military-industrial complex, payed any mind to their signs or silence?

I realized then that this was a different sort of protest than I was used to and that, even more than the cold machines, these folks might aim to reach other people, to speak to the citizenry.

It was a moment of truth and beauty, and for it I felt oddly American and fittingly grateful. I write these lines in a strange state of mind, as if some uncharacteristic nationalism is welling up in me. I just wish I knew what to do w/ it.

This seems like a time when we should all be exercising our organizational protestant rights before we scorch the earth, transforming it into the stark charred landscape of the future.

http://www.womeninblack.net/

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[RebelWithAFrog]

I was this close } { to moving on to other video's and then that car drove by.

[MeatyUrologist]

YAY YIELDSIGNS! I got chills of sense memory when I saw your signature opening. Glad you're posting again.

[evilmonkey8206]

WELCOME BACK YIELDSIGNS..

[odetothepillow]

Indeed: glad to have you back.

[Artylad]

Welcome back x x x

[derricksteele]

It seems your welling nationalism has expressed itself in video.

I'm glad to see you posting.