Is the US anti-war movement generally still growing?
Yes it is very much alive, but it still hasn’t regained the strength it had in the pre-Iraq invasion days of February 2003. The recent demonstration of a half a million people in August in front of the Republican convention, however, shows significant sentiment against the war. It was the largest demonstration in the history of our nation at any political convention. While Kerry supporters were evident in the demonstration, the vast majority were focused on anti-Bush and anti-war messages. In one section of the march, people carried nearly 1,000 black cloth-draped coffins, representing the number of US personnel who’ve died in the war. It was very moving. Comments by Kerry that he’ll “do a better job of winning the war” than Bush, upset big chunks of the anti-war movement. I think the Kerry voter registration efforts have drawn mainly from the labor movement and other social movements, like the environmental and women’s movement, although some from the anti-war movement. Mobilizing har
