L.A. Times, September 2, 2002
..."A 500,000-person protest against the Gulf War and a 100,000-person protest against the war in Afghanistan didn't bring about policy change," said Micah White, who with a handful of students at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania runs the Internet site www.why-war.com. "That has been acknowledged by people within the antiwar movement."
A related change, White noted, is that opponents plan to "put their bodies on the line," traveling to Iraq to witness war and report their observations--much as American Adam Shapiro did in going to the West Bank on behalf of the pro-Palestinian group International Solidarity. Shapiro ended up spending a night in Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat's then-blockaded Ramallah compound.
"We will definitely be seeing that tactic here," agreed Guntzel, of Voices of the Wilderness...
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