Saturday, March 22

“Five Years Too Many” March

My friend, veteran Pittsburgh activist Vincent Eirene, once told me that the peace movement would never end, so long as future generations could come up with new phrases to rhyme with “four.” (As in, “One, two, three, four, we don’t ___ ___ ___.”) Nor will the movement ever be given any peace, it seems: This nation is, as of Wednesday, five years into its second war in Iraq, and little has changed for the better, notwithstanding “the surge.” (Can you call a return to earlier levels of wartime violence a success? How much violence, received or inflicted, prompts a declaration of victory?) Tired of this $3 trillion war? Tired of politicians hedging and dissembling about its length and costs, in human and financial terms? This weekend you have a chance to turn your grumbling into shouting, your inchoate anger into a visible symbol. At 11am there’s an antiwar rally at UB South’s Park & Ride lot, a sendoff for a peace caravan that snakes through Buffalo on its way to the Sister Karen Center, where Geoff Millard (pictured above), current president of the DC Chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War and a Buffalo native, delivers a talk at 1pm. One, two, three four…are we tired of this stinking war? Then let’s say so.

—geoff kelly

11am. Parade from UB South Park & Ride lot, 3435 Main St; 1pm. Rally at the Sister Karen

Center, 80 Durham Ave. (894-2013/pjaw.org).