Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War

Jeremy Varon is professor of history at The New School in New York City. He is the author of Bringing the War Home:The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies and The New Life: Jewish Students of Postwar Germany.

• List of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. “Reconciliation, Not Revenge”: The Antiwar Response to 9/11Chapter 2. “The Way to Prevent More Deaths Is Not to Kill More People”: Arguing the War in AfghanistanChapter 3. “The Dominant Frame Is War”: The Birth of the Antiwar MovementChapter 4. “Not in Our Name”: From the War in Afghanistan to the War in IraqChapter 5. Uniting for Peace and JusticeChapter 6. “The World Says No to War”: A Day of Global ProtestChapter 7. “To Bomb This Site Would Be a War Crime”: From “Stop the War” to Shock and AweChapter 8. “Are We Protesting the War or the Occupation?”: The US War in IraqChapter 9. From “Bring ’Em On” to “Bring Them Home”: The Unraveling of the Iraq WarChapter 10. “Sorry, Everybody, We Tried”: The Antiwar Movement and the Reelection of George W. BushChapter 11. “REAL Support for the Troops”: The Antiwar Movement and Military DissentChapter 12. “Fervent Calls for Peace”: The Turning of the Iraq WarChapter 13. “The End of an Error” and Endless WarConclusionAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations Used in the NotesNotesIndex

"Varon's history of the 21st century’s first major antiwar mobilization, a mass movement almost entirely ignored by the corporate media, eloquently captures the depth, creativity, and commitment with which peacemakers around the world confronted the so-called Global War on Terror. While official propaganda and a parade of retired generals on cable news boosted endless, a vibrant peace movement grew. Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War is a deep and essential account of the global antiwar movement, and a timely reminder in this era of rising authoritarianism that there is a force more powerful, that of organized people committed to peace."