As an anti-war activist and mother, for many years I’ve been acutely aware that we have been at war my teenage daughter’s entire life. March 20 is the 16th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. We are now living in a time when an entire generation of young people — including new Marine recruits and newly registered voters — have grown up with war as a routine condition.
For years, we've known that building popular movements is the surest way to impact national and state policies. We have also learned and rooted our organizing in intersectionality: the understanding that the inter-related causes of injustice, war, and environmental degradation and the need for our movements to collaborate to overcome.