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Dear Sisters,
On behalf of the 209 affiliated national organization of WIDF, we are encouraged and happy with the continuous struggle that the GRANNY PEACE BRIGADE are waging for peace. Women know that there can be no equality, no development without peace and justice. Peace is not just the absence of physical violence Peace means all the requirements of a constructive society- education, healthcare, housing, full employment and the people's rich culture coming from the various strains of its rich diversity. The Granny Peace Brigade with its emphasis on US military bases on foreign soil is doing pioneer work and the world is listening to you.
In sisterhood and struggle,
- Marcia Campos, WIDF President, April 9, 2008

WIDF is Women's International Democratic Federation. It is the international women's organization that met in Caracas in April 2008. Three members of the Granny Peace Brigade, Phyllis Cunningham, Carol Husten and Vinie Burrows attended the convention, first in the western hemisphere, and that is where the U.S. delegation's resolution re: Close All U.S. Military Bases on Foreign Soil was passed unanimously. Carol was the person in our delegation who initiated the resolution after hearing from many, many international delegates, how the U.S. and the U.S. military was harming and killing the women, children, and families in so very many parts of the world.

Marcia Campos is the International President and is from Brazil. FDIM is the acronym for name of the organization in Spanish: Federacion Democratica Internacional De Mujeres.

I cannot thank you enough for what you are doing. I am an active-duty Air Force E-5 with a beautiful wife and two blessings: Katie - 4 and Emily - 2. We are currently stationed in Cocoa Florida and on our way to San Antonio. I cannot stomach the thought of my two beautiful daughters growing up without a father and my wife struggling to keep them clothed and fed - especially over such a cruel and useless war.
I always appreciate those who thank me for my service, but it's those of you who see through the blinds and fight to keep us home and ready to fight for a worthy cause who I hold closest to my heart.
Please keep fighting the good fight and maybe some day the government will listen to it's employer - you.
- Patrick, March 19, 2008

Thank you for all that you do. We need more folks like you. Stay strong and bring 'em home.
...And now that I am retired from 25 years of military service, I find I must promote peace. Each of the kids I saw and talked with during my last overseas deployment were someone’s children and - those children should not be there!
Thank you – thank you – thank you!!!
-e., retired OIF/OEF vet, March 19, 20, 2008

Danbury CT Peace Vigil: (Week #19 - June 23, 2007) Every Saturday from 10:30 to Noon Rain or Shine At the Danbury War Memorial - corner of Main and South Streets Danbury, CT. "Stand for Peace! Out of Iraq Now!" Please join us and stop the killing & send a message. We need to take to the streets, our elected officials seem unable to change the policies of the Bush+Cheney Administration. Signs are available, but new ones are always welcome, any questions please contact Mike at .....M2xto@aol.com

Stamford CT Peace Vigil: Hope to see you this Saturday at the weekly ongoing vigil 11:30-12:30 at the Ferguson Library, Stamford CT (Week #89 as of June 30th). The Library is located at the junction of Atlantic and Broad Streets -- just a "jay walk" across from the Town Center. Contact Ann at .....AEGALLOWAY@aol.com

I am an Italian and am writing you from France. Why not ask the U.S. solider's to abandon the battlefields and immediately become a conscientious objector on the spot by no longer obeying the military hierarchy and the White House? Why not speak directly to the soldiers, instead of addressing yourself pointlessly to the government of your country which shows itself to be totally deaf to your pleas for peace? Say to your soldiers: "Don't shoot any more. Don't fight any more. Stay in the shelter of your unit and don't obey orders given to you any longer ; this is for your own survival!" Thank you for your attention, if you have understood this letter.
Goodbye for now,
- Marco C, France (Translation into English, N. Leaf)

My respect and support to your actions. I am delighted to see that there are some Americans who have the courage to criticize the actions of their government. So as you know most of the Europeans were against the war in Iraq. It caused a very bad image to the United States. As history shows and now proved again violence is not a solution to solve problems. Dialog, respect and understanding is in many cases the solution and the way to succeed. Excuse me for my English. I suppose the email shall be screened by the by your office of homeland security . It does not matter it is no threat to your country's safety.
Regards,
- B, Netherlands

Keep on going being against the war. It is against the will of your constitution and humanity in general. The only winners are those who are in oil business, as the majority of Bush's administration. So keep the peaceful fight against war alive.
- A. age 33, Germany

Just saw a report on your brigade. I´m impressed to see critical Americans, who say NO to the bad war in Iraq. My grandfather was soldier in WW1 and WW2, my father in WW2, he died in 1960, when I was 2 years old, by the hurting that he got in 1945. So I am against any wars! Be proud on your brigade!
- G. from Mayen, Germany

I've just seen a TV report on your action and I wanted to present you all my admiration for your fight. I'm a young French teacher and I hope to look like you when I'll be older. Thank you so much to let me believe in another America and another world plenty of peace.
- A, France

Thank you for your wonderful peace-engagement. I saw your report at Arte-TV. You are the hope for USA!!! Such a creative and powerful way of demonstration brought my hope back for American democracy and a peaceful future. Respect and Love for all of you.
Greetings from the old Europeans,
- J, Berlin

Hello, I'm a 21 y/o French guy and I've seen you on a French/German TV channel (Arte), and I send you this e-mail in order to encourage you because the world needs people opening their mouth to throw truth to the manipulators' faces!
Continue, the world needs you all.
- F.

I'm a French girl student, and I heard of you thanks to a report on a French-German channel "Arte"(in the transmission Tracks). I was really impressed by your movement. Unfortunately, I cannot make a donation because as a student I'm not really because I really haven't got the means, but I really wanted to encourage you. In France the opinion about American people is essentially based on politics and fast food; and I was so pleased to learn on tv! your existence. I hope you'll succeed.
With kind regards,
- L.

I am 18 years old and I'm living in France. I saw a report on your organization in the channel "Tracks" and I wanted quite simply to congratulate you for your engagement... The war in Iraq do not should exist, and your president did nothing but worsen the situation. In France we are in general against this war and much of people fight more and more against this war... I send my support to you and I wish you good luck.
- W.

You ladies are great. I just have one question. Do I have to get a sex change and have a kid with a kid to join you??? Much love and hope for peace. Take care.
- R.

You folks are great great great!
And thank you.
- J. (a dad in upstate New York)

Granny Peace Brigade,
What a WONDERFUL idea! You all are the embodiment of a woman's wisdom in the second half of her life! Who can resist kindly white haired grannies marching for peace? I'm about to turn 50 in a few months, am single and never married, but as I enter the second half of my life, I find myself feeling a bond with you older women, a bond of the wisdom of living into middle and older age and what you take away from that.

I've lived long enough to know that this war in Iraq is wrong, and my young friends are over there putting their bodies on the line fighting it, and for what? Oil? Why aren't we spending that money instead on a new "Apollo" project of developing clean, renewable energy sources? Why aren't we using that money instead to make sure that all of our Americans are housed, fed, educated and have equal access to health care?

YOU GO, GRANNIES! I can't be with you next weekend in Washington, but I will be there with you in spirit! BRAVO!!!
- S.B. age 49

Message to the Grannies from Malachy McCourt
Some thoughts for the Grannies:
To paraphrase another saying -- If I knew that a Granny could be such a wondrous and powerful being I'd have dispensed with the formality of having a mother and had life with the Granny instead. However, I don't want to offend mothers so don't tell anyone but the public that I said that.

In the past, despots, dictators and destroyers of humanity have gotten away with their murderous greedy wars and rapine because they had managed to reduce womankind, the bearers of the warriors, to insignificant roles in society by implying that it was woman's fault that mankind were sinners, thus making women feel shamed. She made Adam eat an apple, they said. Original sin they said.

Well, folks, times have changed. The Grannies of this world will no longer accept the responsibility and will not stamp the souls of their children with the shame of original sin for the reputed evil of Eve. No, they say, our sins are private property, but the murderers' and war profiteers' sins are public for they kill our children in pursuit of dirty money and no longer will we allow them to slaughter our grand children for biblical mythology or pseudo patriotism.

Listen up You Killers of Our Kids!

The Grannies are speaking, the Grannies are raging, the Grannies are marching, and the Grannies are singing. They are singing the song of doom for evildoers and the encore is a song of joy at the restoration of compassion, of mercy, of peace. If the evildoers are not paying attention then they are accursed and misfortune will becloud their lives because it's a sure thing that if there is a God She will listen to the imprecations of loving Grannies rather than the raucous voices of the slavering warmongers seeking to spill more blood for profit

Its simple, God! All the Grannies want is to go home to love and be loved, to write, to build, to sing, to dig, to paint, to sculpt, do nothing, to witness the restoration of justice and peace, to watch their young folk grow up in the knowledge that they will not be blown into the sky in some distant land for blood oil or come home so wounded they will never have a grand child themselves. Is that too much to ask? Ignore at your peril, George, because an enraged Grannyhood possesses an unknown power -- a weapon of mass instruction which cannot be stopped by any defense known to you.