WesPeace, an organization of Wesleyan students, faculty and staff that has opposed a military solution in Iraq since long before the war began in March 2003, will welcome Ned Lamont to campus this Monday. Lamont’s bid for the U.S. Senate in the last election did not win him a six-year stint in Washington, but his campaign accomplished something far more important. His stunning upset victory over Joseph Lieberman in the CT Democratic primary in August, running on an unequivocal anti-war message, broke the nationwide election wide open.
Lamont showed the way—it was indeed possible to speak out clearly against the war in Iraq and win election. Thanks to his blazing the trail, we have a Democratic majority in the U.S. House and Senate with a clear consciousness of the people’s mandate to find a way out of the Iraq quagmire.
Lamont will attend WesPeace’s monthly noon “bead in,” in which we add beads to a sculptured basket in front of the Public Affairs Center to reflect the number of lives lost the previous month due to the war in Iraq. This is a very short, silent, ceremony. He will also give a public talk at 7:30 in Shanklin 107, “Challenging the conventional wisdom.”
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