Against the ‘Rotten Empire’: Women’s March on the Pentagon 2018

Seeking no less than a complete end to all US military actions abroad and the closure of all foreign military bases, the 2018 Women's March on the Pentagon is a bipartisan call to profoundly shrink the Pentagon budget and use the cash to fund healthy and much-needed social programs in America.

Commemorating, in part, the 51st anniversary of the landmark 1967 Washington DC anti-war march, the Sunday, October 21, 2018, Women's March on the Pentagon (WMOP), coincided with sister events in cities across the United States.

WMOP is, according to their website, responding to the consistently growing number of actions worldwide by the military forces of the United States over the past several decades. The group looks to place the political and cultural focus of the country on peace, instead of legacy conflicts in the Middle East, northern Africa and many other locations across the globe, according to Heavy.com.

From the WMOP website:

“Our demands are simple: The complete end to the wars abroad; closure of foreign bases; dramatically slash the Pentagon budget to fund healthy social programs here at home.”

WMOP's event director, Cindy Sheehan, became a powerful activist for peace following the 2004 death of her son, Casey Sheehan, in Iraq.

Famously referred to by Hip Hop Caucus CEO Reverend Lennox Yearwood as “the Rosa Parks of the antiwar movement,” Sheehan is also routinely labeled the ‘Peace Mom,' from a 2006 autobiography describing her…