Moms put local face on anti-war group

The Chicago Libune ^ | 7-13-2006 | Deborah Horan

[satchmodog9]

Julia Field covered her auburn curls with a blazing pink cowboy hat and listened to her stomach growl. A year ago, the stay-at-home mom from Oak Park would never have imagined herself fasting to protest war.

Until then, she had volunteered at her son's elementary school and belonged to the local PTA.

Now, armed with a bright pink lawn chair and a motivating dose of outrage, Field has joined a national fast that began July 4 in Washington and has become--from 4 to 8 p.m. for two weeks--a one-woman anti-war crusade.

"It might be a little lonely today," Field said on a recent afternoon as she set up a Code Pink camp by herself in a sunny corner of Evanston's Fountain Square. "I'm pretty much the face of the fast."

But she isn't the only suburban mom juggling her children's music lessons with anti-war activism. Across Illinois, roughly 6 of every 10 women who have joined Code Pink's e-mail list hail from the suburbs, said Catherine Caporusso, co-founder of the Illinois chapter.

[Dionysius]

That's a cowboy hat? Maybe in an Ang Lee movie, but not in any reality I know about.

[satchmodog9]

Very nostalgic 38 year old. Believe me, the word I wanted to use would have gotten me banned.

[Dionysius]

Now my stomach is growling, more like barking!

[dighton]

Gosh, how can anyone object to these dear sweet moms?

[satchmodog9]

So why is this twit from Oak park going to Evanston?

[ishabibble]

I wonder what Julia Field and her auburn curls think of today's events in the Mid-East.

Julia, nobody who wants to kill you for not being a Muslim cares if you are fasting or you wear a "blazing pink" cowboy hat. Oak Park can burn just as easy as Hiafa, dear. If the Muslim terrorists come to your house, are you going to show them your Code Pink badge and think they'll just go away?
Guess what? You are an infidel and your life is worth less than zero to those people. Never forget, as you sit in your pink lawn chair, that Saddam threw people off buildings because he did want to spend money on bullets.

Infidel. It's not just for Jews anymore.

[rlmorel]

[ChiMark]

Evanston is the North Shore enclave of liberalism ;Northwestern University. The other out post is the North side.

In essense the rest of us in Chicago are designated as fly over country.

[Rummyfan]

A year ago, the stay-at-home mom from Oak Park would never have imagined herself fasting to protest war.

Guess her intelligence dropped a lot in the last year!

[Drew68]

Field has joined a national fast that began July 4 in Washington and has become--from 4 to 8 p.m. for two weeks--a one-woman anti-war crusade.

Wow. Fasting from 4:00pm to 8:00pm. What a sacrifice. She needs to take some lessons in fasting from the IRA's Bobby Sands. Now there's a dude who knew how to fast!

[satchmodog9]

I get all that, but why not stay home in Oak Park and be a dumbass liberal there. How irresponsible to waste all that gas driving to Evanston.

[rlmorel]

"...Gosh, how can anyone object to these dear sweet moms?..."

Ask my favorite conservative blonde, twiggy, best-selling female author.

[dighton]

Stands to reason she also hates apple pie and baseball.

;-)

[rlmorel]

I know I should laugh. Really I should.

But these people just piss me off. I can find plenty to laugh at in life today, but these idiots just torque me.

It is all fun and games until someone puts an eye out. Or chops off a head.

[rlmorel]

Thanks. You put it really well.

These morons want to keep their damned hands "clean" and take the moral high ground (as they see it)

The rest of us have to be grown-ups and accept the moral responsibility of supporting the war and everything that entails so these asshats can live in their liberal la la land fantasy world.

God, this stuff has got me in a foul mood today.

[satchmodog9]

It is all fun and games until someone puts an eye out. Or chops off a head.

First off, that is freaking brilliant. It would definitely be the best tagline ever. Second, I did laugh at this article. My wife was having a meltdown over it and all I could do was laugh and comment on the foolishness of every line in this piece.

[buccaneer81]

some lessons in fasting from the IRA's Bobby Sands. Now there's a dude who knew how to fast!

I was 18 then. When the Pope (JP2) sent him a blessed crucifix, it was the beginning of the end of me and the Catholic Church.

The RCC supports illegal immigration today. Since 1981 they have suppported terroists.

[rlmorel]

Thanks...it just sounded like something Ann Coulter would say...:)

Gosh. I know I should laugh...must...take...it...less...seriously...

Anyway...you are right...it DOES look good as a tagline!

[Westbrook]

Exactly.

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[texas_mrs]

That ain't no cowboy hat..............