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By Celina R. De Leon, WireTap. Posted August 7, 2006 to Alternet.org/wiretap

By Ann Lloyd
New Market, Tennessee
20 July 2006

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The Iraq War often seems to be one of numbers: $320-billion spent, more than 2500 US troops killed and over 18,000 wounded. Iraqi civilian deaths are estimated from 5000 to well over 10,000. And the mounting cost of the war has energized the peace movement in the United States. As with an earlier conflict - Vietnam - it's led by young people and veterans of the war.

For decades, labor and civil rights leaders have come to the Highlander Center, in the foothills of Tennessee's Smokey Mountains, to hone their strategies for social change. This month, the historic complex hosted 27 young men and women, who came to learn how to spread their anti-war message more effectively. Many of the activists at the weekend workshop have personal experience with the fighting in Iraq. They are members of Military Families Speak Out and Iraq Veterans Against the War.

The future of the peace movement
By Courtney Brooks | Special to the Vermont Guardian

Posted July 14, 2006

At a recent gathering, organized in part by a Burlington-based group, people from around the country came together to talk about the future of the peace movement in the United States, as well as finding ways to end the war in Iraq.

A key finding from the event is that peace activists and organizations need to find options to offer young people other than joining the military as a “way out,” and that currently those options don’t often exist.