Where were all you anti-war activists last Friday when City Council Member Paul Zerby attempted to get a hearing on an anti-war resolution? We knew this was coming up, and while the chamber was packed with affordable housing advocates and homeless people who had slept out in the cold and the snow the night before, only a handful of you could be seen. How can we hope to make a national or global impact when we pass on the opportunity to make a local impact? Demonstrations in Northeast, Downtown and Uptown are all very fine, "sexy" perhaps. I have as much fun as anyone else marching down Lake Street. But if we really mean to challenge the status quo then we must also bear the tedium of City Council meetings which are anything but sexy. Yes, we all have other obligations like jobs and school and child care, especially on weekdays, but you can't tell me that local political organizations and faith-based groups such as WAMM and Joan of Arc can't find enough folks among their ranks to fill the council chamber. Paul Zerby, Dean Zimmerman, Gary Schiff, Robert Lilligren and Natalie Lee Johnson stuck their necks out on this issue and certainly deserved a lot more support from us than they received on Friday. Perhaps my representative from the 10th Ward, Dan Niziolek, sometimes a swing vote, would've voted differently had he seen more than one or two faces from his district (unlike Scott Benson, Dan's not completely in the lap of Paul Ostrow yet). Whatever the case, please DO NOT ask me again to get on the bus to Washington ,DC, or to make a $125.00 donation so someone else can go in my place (which I did). For as long as long as you lack the brains and initiative to act locally, then I'm not giving you another dime. Furthermore, I'm through with attending your pep rallies.-----Peter Schmitz
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