Here's a very heartening, up-to-date list of cities that have either passed anti-war/anti-Patriot Act resolutions, or have such resolutions pending. I'm posting this mainly to urge everyone to support the passage of such resolutions in their own communities (see
http://www.citiesforpeace.org for instructions). But also because it further demonstrates that America is NOT unified behind Bush, and because it gives the lie to those who say that this is a tiny, inconsequential fringe movement.
The Right is quick to suggest that all this is the work of the usual patchouli-drenched malcontents. But NO president in the 20th century has ever been confronted with such a widespread display of pre-emptive outrage over an intended action! You don't get resolutions of this type passed in Washington DC and Chicago and Des Moines by being a bunch of out-of-touch flakes...you do it by having a broad base of support and sympathy that cuts across political and class lines. And by having a much greater popular understanding of, and concern for, Constitutional rights than certain people are willing to acknowledge.
Here's the list:
ALASKA
PENDING: Anchorage
CALIFORNIA
PASSED: Arcata, Berkeley, Mendocino County, Oakland, San Fernando, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Sebastopol, Topanga Canyon, West Hollywood
PENDING: Los Angeles, Sacramento
COLORADO
PASSED: Boulder, Nederland, Telluride
PENDING: Crestone, Denver, La Veta, Saguache, Silver Plume, Walsenburg
CONNECTICUT
PASSED: New Haven, Salisbury
PENDING: Cornwall
FLORIDA
PENDING: Gainesville, Manatee County, St. Petersburg
HAWAII
PENDING: Honolulu
IDAHO
PASSED: Blaine County
ILLINOIS
PASSED: Chicago, Evanston
PENDING: Charleston, DeKalb, East Moline, Moline, Oak Park, Rock Island, Silvis, Urbana
INDIANA
PASSED: Gary
IOWA
PASSED: Des Moines
PENDING: Clive, Davenport, Decorah
MARYLAND
PASSED: Baltimore, Takoma Park
PENDING: Cheverly
MAINE
PENDING: Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, Portland
MASSACHUSSETTS
PASSED: Brookline, Northampton, Somerville
PENDING: Amherst
MICHIGAN
PASSED: Ann Arbor, Detroit, Ferndale, Kalamazoo, Traverse City
PENDING: Alma, Berkley, Charlevoix, Clawson, Grand Rapids, Hamtramck, Lake Orion, Lansing, Livonia, Marquette, Petoskey, Plymouth, Resort Township, Royal Oak, Southfield, Troy
MISSOURI
PENDING: Columbia
MONTANA
PENDING: Helena
NEW JERSEY
PASSED: Jersey City
PENDING: Bloomfield
NEW MEXICO
PASSED: Santa Fe
NEW YORK
PASSED: Danby, Ithaca, New Paltz, Rochester, Syracuse, Woodstock
PENDING: Cooperstown, New York City
NORTH CAROLINA
PASSED: Carrboro
PENDING: Chapel Hill
OHIO
PASSED: Cleveland
PENDING: Columbus, Dayton
OREGON
PASSED: Corvallis, Eugene
PENDING: Multnomah County, Salem
PENNSYLVANIA
PASSED: Haines Township, Philadelphia, York
TEXAS
PENDING: Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Galveston, Houston
UTAH
PENDING: Salt Lake City
VERMONT
PASSED: Burlington
VIRGINIA
PENDING: Charlottesville
WASHINGTON
PASSED: Olympia, Seattle, Tacoma
PENDING: Bellingham, Spokane
WASHINGTON DC (Passed)
WEST VIRGINIA
PENDING: Charleston
WISCONSIN
PASSED: Madison, Milwaukee