Re-energizing the Antiwar Effort

Progressives need to move now to reframe the debate over the Iraq war and to connect it to the debate about the economy, says Leslie Cagan, the national coordinator for United for Peace and Justice. Cagan will be a panelist at this year's Take Back America conference March 17.

In this interview, Cagan says it is important to challenge efforts by conservatives to divert attention from the grave error of invading Iraq and focus on the need to achieve "victory" there. She also calls on activists at the Take Back America conference working on such issues as health care, housing, jobs or Social Security "to make the connection between these struggles and our struggle to end the war in Iraq."

At the end of the Take Back America conference, United for Peace and Justice will join a series of demonstrations in Washington in connection with the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion.