I SCREAM
YOU SCREAM
WE ALL SCREAM FOR NEW ORLEANS
The first Howard Dean campaign for the presidency came to a premature end in part because the major media managed to reduce his efforts to a rallying cry he uttered after his first outing in Iowa.
For some of us, that rallying cry became a sort of mantra. Union workers in New Mexico used it to identify their interests with his.
Now, it strikes me as appropriate that the nation will not only benefit from being reminded that Howard Dean, whatever the occasion of his scream, was right, but it needs to set up a scream of its own. There has been a lot to scream about and, unfortunately, if past is prologue, there will be more to come. Because the people who brought us the disaster in Iraq, are gearing up to make the disaster in Louisiana and Mississippi and Alabama worse.
Which is why, when the citizens from all over the country march on Washington this September 24, they should make sure their lungs are in good shape and come prepared to let out a scream for peace and justice that will be heard around the globe, especially in Baghdad and New Orleans.
Posted by Hannah at September 17, 2005 06:43 AM