There is a lot of work left to do; this war is far from over. Each day more and more people are speaking out against the war and I think that energizes anti-war activists. When your movement is growing, and more and more people are joining what you are saying, that energizes you.

We were alarmed to hear the first company to get a contract in the rebuilding of New Orleans was Halliburton, another non-bid contract.

It's one thing to monitor protests and protest organizers, but quite another thing to refer them to your counterterrorism unit.

The issue is what is the balance between security and our Constitutional rights to assemble? We think the city of Boston has gone way overboard in the name of security.

Just in the past two or three days, the phones have been ringing off the hook here. I think this disaster is helping more people make the connections and see the ways this war is impacting our nation.

Exiling a rally to a remote stretch of sun-baked highway makes a mockery of the right to assemble.

We are very alarmed that our First Amendment rights have been undermined to the degree that the city of Boston now thinks the rights of free expression, the right to rally and protest means you get out into an area like this.

We are saying 'no' to the Bush agenda, 'no' to the war in Iraq, 'no' to the regime change by our government, 'no' to pre-emptive war, 'no' to the economic policies.