The U.S. Conference of Mayors has just done something it hasn't done since Vietnam, passing a resolution that supports efforts to speed up the ending of our current wars and calls on the President and Congress to "bring these war dollars home to meet vital human needs."
David Swanson offers details and a blow-by-blow. Mayors John Dickert of Racine and Paul Soglin of Madison were among the first to speak and urge passage.