Idea for a peace movement...

suppose a peace party was created in the vein of a political party, yet didn't have a candidate but organized protests, meetings and gatherings much along the same way a political party does?

an organization of peace, so to say.

I mean is that a crazy concept?

So long as it does not get bogged down in the bleating of wise asses who insist that third party challenges are impossible.

i've been trying to think up a good name ...

what do you think about one of these:

* American Friends Service Committee
* American Peace Mobilization
* A.N.S.W.E.R. (also known as International ANSWER and ANSWER Coalition)
* Anti-War Committee
* Antiwar.com
* Beyond War <[1>]
* Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran
* Campus Antiwar Network
* Catholic Peace Fellowship
* Center on Conscience & War (formerly known as NISBCO)
* Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
* Code Pink
* ChildVoice International
* DC Anti-War Network
* Democracy Rising
* Friends Committee on National Legislation
* Gold Star Families for Peace
* Greenville Antiwar Society
* Iraq Veterans Against the War
* Iraq Peace Action Coalition
* Just Foreign Policy
* Liberation News (Internationalist)
* Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
* Mennonite Central Committee
* Military Families Speak Out (not anti-war, opposed only to war in Iraq)
* National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam
* National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
* Nevada Shakespeare Company
* Not in Our Name
* Peace Action
* September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
* Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
* Students for a Democratic Society
* The World Can't Wait
* Troops Out Now Coalition
* UC Santa Cruz Students Against War
* United for Peace and Justice
* Veterans for Peace
* Veterans Truth Project
* Vietnam Veterans Against the War
* Voters for Peace
* War Resisters League
* Why War?
* Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
* Women Against War
* Youth Against War And Racism
* War Is Not The Answer

groups were under one banner.

Now that would be something. That is my point.

Each group would be like how a state is represented at a political convention.

force pre-existing political parties to change. It's not that crazy if you think Martin Luther King, Jr., was a crazy example. In the end, he never ran for political office, but he changed America about as well as any American president could if not more so given that he was unencumbered by questions of political expedience vs. principles many politicians play over, usually adopting the former.

A crazy concept that merits a look-see....

I registered it with the thought of Bi-partisan Anti War Group