This Moment

Cindy Sheehan's vigil is giving new life to the peace movement. You can feel the swelling energy even on this blog. This may be developing into a major turning point for anti-war activists. Bruce Shapiro, blogging for The Nation, acknowledges that August is a slow news month and the White House press corps has nothing else to do with the President holed up in Crawford, but nevertheless, something seems to be happening, and time appears to be ripe, what with 61 percent of Americans now saying they oppose our current policy in Iraq.

But Shapiro notes that every major turning point in public perception of the war has come as a result of some brave soul's act of civil disobedience, from the leaking of the Abu Grahib photos to the decision of military lawyers to go public on the abuse of prisoners at Guantanomo. If you are against this war, let's pour it on and see if we can really start shifting the momentum!