Thousands march in US anti-war rally.

Thousands march in US anti-war rally. :

"'This is what democracy looks like,' chief organiser Leslie Cagan, national coordinator of the anti-war lobby United for Peace and Justice, said.

'We are here to send a message to the White House and the Congress that we must end this war now, bring our troops home and also end the attack on our civil rights at home.'"

Good on 'em. Democracy is :


NOUN:
pl. de·moc·ra·cies

1. Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
2. A political or social unit that has such a government.
3. The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.
4. Majority rule.
5. The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.

ETYMOLOGY:
French démocratie, from Late Latin dmocratia, from Greek dmokrati : dmos, people; see d- in Indo-European roots + -krati, -cracy

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/democracy

Government by the people. Not governments ignoring the people. As world citizens we have had enough of this because we are more positive and productive and ordinary people are paying with their taxes, their relatives, their families, their stability, their hearts. The situation in Iraq just goes on and on and on and the cost to the people of Iraq and the cost to the soldiers and their families and friends is just too high. In 2006 there has to be a better way. In this millennium we ought to be able to put the old behaviours behind us and find a more productive way of dealing with situations. But that money could be used elsewahere and those lives lost could have contributed to our world. Good on 'em. We are sick of the world being trashed. Every day you get up and more things and more people have been trashed. We need to do it differently because the current model is just too destructive.