A read for all of you Protestors out there who feel disheartened

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0626-08.htm

Published on Monday, June 26, 2006 by the Newhouse News Service
Frustrated Protesters Say Washington Isn't Listening
by Stephen Koff

WASHINGTON - Early in the Iraq war, thousands of protesters took to public squares in cities like Cleveland and rode buses to Washington. They wanted the United States to end its invasion.

The war continued, and the war critics' frustration has only grown.

The same pattern, but with a smaller group, occurred a little earlier in President Bush's first term, when environmentalists complained about global warming. Al Gore, the former vice president, had said the country needed to regulate smokestack emissions of greenhouse gases, but other politicians caricatured him as a tree-hugging kook.

People are warming up to Gore these days -- but Washington still has no intention of dealing with global warming.

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