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September 24, 2010

Dear Friend, [ http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/424/t/8834/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=2298
]

Do you love The Daily Show as much as we do? Maybe like a lot of us,
you go to bed with Jon Stewart four nights a week, and find him a fun,
smart companion at the end of the day. Jon apparently doesn't feel
quite as cozy with us, however. When he recently announced his "Rally
to Restore Sanity" in DC to counter the extremists he feels are
dominating our national political discussion, he included CODEPINK
among the "loud folks" getting in the way of civil rhetoric [
http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/thu-september-16-2010-bill-clinton
]. He also equated progressives calling George Bush a war criminal
with right-wingers calling Obama Hitler! "Jon, seriously??"

Now, we are used to being called loud. We are proud of being loud. In
our post-9/11-24/7 news cycle, we've learned that the more audacious
and outrageous the action, the more likely we are to keep the anti-war
message in the national conversation. Jon Stewart says he wants to
restore sanity to Washington; we wish he could understand that we aim
for this, as well. We wish he could see that all the "loud folks" on
the left are actually part of a rational discussion about the future
of our nation as we irrationally engage in illegal occupations. What
is more insane, after all, than unjust war? What is more outrageous
than a US foreign policy of democracy at the barrel of a gun? And
really, what is saner than peace?

So we will be at Jon Stewart's rally on October 30 and will try to use
our best inside voices to bring our anti-war message (no promises on
the volume, though). Please join us if you can. [
mailto:info at codepink.org?subject=I%20want%20to%20join%20you%20in%20DC%20for%2010-30-10
] *And bring your loudest outside voice to DC on October 2 for the
true progressive convergence, One Nation: March to Rebuild America and
End War.* [ http://www.codepink.org/section.php?id=430 ] We are
excited to join a coalition of unionists, civil rights groups,
immigrant rights leaders and social justice advocates to remind
Washington to Fund Jobs, Not War. Let's do it loud and proud.


"And now here's your moment of Zen,"
Dana, Farida, Gayle, Janet, Jean, Joan, Jodie, Lisa, Medea, Nancy,
Rae, Tighe, Valerie and Zaccai




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