...I am submitting work from a chapbook that fell together from my experiences with the Gulf War starting with Aug. 1990 when I was out in the street in high 90 temps. with my poster "STOP GEORGE BUSH'S NEW WAR" and the Marines at the enlistment centre, where we kept vigil and told kids not to sign up, would say, "what war are you talking about?" Of course it was not a war but a massacre. With each passing day, we saw the momentum increase. We continued our vigils until sometime in March 91 when the anti-war people gave up - just surrendered. I stood at the end with one other woman and a sign saying simply "250,000" dead Iraqi people." I went to Washington among the first group - basically the former Attorney General's People Against Intervention in the Middle East. Our numbers were way under-estimated by the Corporate Controlled Press (Media).
Each new atrocity of Bush’s creation would send me back to the streets. I got well over 1,000 signatures or petitions to Bush not to start the war; mostly black people and women. A few men were ready to lynch me for being unpatriotic. Above all, I am a humanist and am very saddened to see what my country has become – another empire sending out mercenaries to do the bidding of countries we hold in thrall…
 

 From; The Gulf War: Many Perspectives. Subraman, Belinda. Virgin Press El Paso, Tex.1992 (pp. 131-132)