It is quite possible that future generations will ask us what we were doing while our leaders conducted an illegal occupation of Iraq while implementing the practice of torture against detainees. It is important to recognize that their are and have been Americans who have not stood by quietly as events unfolded in the name of ‘war against terror.’

I have recently scanned these negatives from a 2005 NYC rally of over 300,000 civilians who gathered to voice the message: bring the U.S. troops home from Afganistan and Iraq.