Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.

The United States must reach out to the world community with a new plan to stabilize Iraq, bring U.N. peacekeepers in, and bring U.S. troops home.

Citizens across the United States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department of Peace, seeking nothing less than the transformation of our society, to make non-violence an organizing principle, to make war archaic through creating a paradigm shift in our culture for human development, for economic and political justice and for violence control.

War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.

But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.

I believe health care is a civil right.

We are on the path toward becoming the Sparta of the 21st century, armed to the teeth and without the capacity to care for our own people.