We thought nothing could match Austin’s March 15 response to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, for which 7,000 or so fired-up citizens gathered at the Capitol for a rousing chorus of firebrand speeches and a community statement of defiance – and a few days later as the bombing began, a couple of thousand more marched from UT into Downtown to give notice that the anti-war movement is back. As the empire lashed out, we were finding our voices again. Then state Democrats organized a barnburner of a rally at the Capitol for the Texas 11, still in exile in Albuquerque, on a barnburner of a Saturday, where folks from all over Texas denounced the latest power-grab of the nefarious Tom DeLay. EMS was on hand for the 110-degree heat, but nobody could put out the fire.
