Activism at Brown Bag Lunch Vigil Pays Off

Submitted by Anna on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 07:00

Sally Weiss, co-chair of the PDA End War and Occupation IOT
December 20, 2010, Northampton, MA

Rep Richard Neal of western Massachusetts CD-2 joined the Out of Afghanistan Caucus on December 16, 2010. This is the story of how it came about.

It took an entire year of tireless lobbying to achieve this small but significant victory, last Thursday.

Our monthly Brown Bag Lunch Vigils at Rep. Neal’s district office in Springfield, MA, played a big part, along with a series of other events and actions that brought us to this point