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David Solnit is part of the People Powered Strategy Project, an alliance of anti-war organizations who are bringing a "Proposal for a People Power Strategy to End the Iraq War and Occupation" to the Feb. 18-21 United for Peace and Justice Assembly. He is grateful to the People Powered Strategy Group for help with this article. David was an organizer of the 1999 anti-WTO shut down in Seattle and the 2003 anti-war shut down of San Francisco. He is the editor of Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World (City Lights).
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