(The Associated Press ) BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - John Nirenberg has waterproof sneakers, a bright yellow poncho and a plan. He also has outrage in his heart and much of his retirement savings tied up in his cause.

The 60-year-old author and academic plans to walk from Boston to Washington, D.C., to confront House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in hopes of persuading Congress to take up the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

Nirenberg says he’s no activist. He hates snow, cold and darkness. He’s not even sure he’ll make a difference, but he’s going to try.

(One World.net) - SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. war veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have announced they’re planning to descend on Washington, DC this March to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in Iraq.

“The war in Iraq is not covered to its potential because of how dangerous it is for reporters to cover it,” said Liam Madden, a former Marine and member of the group Iraq Veterans Against the War. “That’s left a lot of misconceptions in the minds of the American public about what the true nature of military occupation looks like.”

Iraq Veterans Against the War argues that well-publicized incidents of American brutality like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the massacre of an entire family of Iraqis in the town of Haditha are not the isolated incidents perpetrated by “a few bad apples,” as many politicians and military leaders have claimed. They are part of a pattern, the group says, of “an increasingly bloody occupation.”

OK, that headline is only true in my dreams, but on a per capita basis, the equivalent happened on Iraq Moratorium  #3 last Friday in Hayward, Wisconsin.

Hayward, a city of 2,129 in northwestern Wisconsin, is better known as the Musky Capital of the World than as a center of antiwar activism, but 40 people turned out for a vigil to call for an ending the war and bringing our troops home. If Milwaukeeans had turned out in equal numbers, as a percentage of the population, there would have been 12,000 at our downtown rush hour vigil Friday night. Instead, there were perhaps 100 at most. In New York City, there would have been 160,000 in the streets.  In Houston, 42,000.  In  San Jose, 18,000. And that’s without including any suburban populations.