Posted on 07/13/2006 5:20:16 PM PDT by 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.
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These sapheads have read People magazine religious and watch all the awards shows. The 'wear a ribbon' mentality has filtered down to the hoi polloi. Empty gestures like this 'fast' are interpreted as 'doing something about it' and treated with reverence instead of the ridicule they deserve. I'm no fan of the IRA but Bobby Sands & crew would certainly not classify what they're doing as a hunger strike.
5.56mm
religious s/b religiously
Being nominated for a Nobel Prize is like being called a "biblical expert" after reading the Song of Solomon.
The Chicago Tribune is a leftist rag. It is the best paper available to me. The Wisconsin papers suck and the Sun Times is a freaking tabloid. The Onion would be more accurate and less biased than the Tribune.
"People in Code Pink are protesting the war outside Walter Reed Hospital," Ibbotson said. "What kind of a welcome home is that?"
Perhaps CT writer Deborah Horan will do an in-depth report on Code Pink's nastier anti-war protests outside WRAMC, now that she's covered their cutesy loud pink hats and pink boas angle?
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