It's Time Anti-War Activists Go Back to School

Failing to communicate effectively has been a cardinal mistake that activists have been making for decades. It is what has been keeping the anti-war movement from gaining traction. We can see the importance of communication when we look at the essential role that the mainstream media has played in shaping public opinion and determining how easy it was for this administration to go to war.

Countless pro-war think tanks, PR agencies, hired “experts” and embedded military journalists contribute to the saturation of a pro-war climate in this country. It has been our opposition’s successful use of communication that has got us into a war with Iraq, and which now puts us close to a war with Iran. If we are to mount an effective campaign to stop this, we must organize an effective communication strategy of our own.

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