The mother of all anti-war forces

The Globe and Mail: "There is a remarkable scene in Fahrenheit 9/11 when Lila Lipscomb talks with an anti-war activist outside the White House about the death of her 26-year-old son in Iraq. A pro-war passerby doesn't like what she overhears and announces, ''This is all staged!''
Ms. Lipscomb turns to the woman, her voice shaking with rage, and says: 'My son is not a stage. He was killed in Karbala, April 2. It is not a stage. My son is dead.' Then she walks away and wails, 'I need my son.'
Watching Ms. Lipscomb doubled over in pain on the White House lawn, I was reminded of other mothers who have taken the loss of their children to the seat of power and changed the fate of wars. During Argentina's dirty war, a group of women whose children had been disappeared by the military regime gathered every Thursday in front of the presidential palace in Buenos Aires. At a time when all public protest was banned, they would walk silently in circles, wearing white headscarves and carrying photographs of their missing children."


By NAOMI KLEIN
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail