"The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice," said Martin Luther King. If we can connect these foreign-policy issues with domestic needs and climate change, if we can follow the powerful examples of mass direct-action movements from Chile to Egypt, and if enough people practice democracy daily rather than waiting until the next presidential election, then maybe--just maybe--we'll be able to push the arc of Obama's second term in the direction of peace and justice.
Medea Benjamin is the cofounder of CODEPINK (www.codepink.org) and Global Exchange (www.globalexchange.org), and is author of Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control .
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