Although there is some grumbling in the SDCPJ, which has about 500 members, that the anti--Afghan war movement‘s influence is dwindling, Jahnkow notes that the current peace campaign is only 4 months old. Still, San Diego’s fledgling anti-war community has already experienced a schism, with some people joining International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism), a group that favors linking anti-war actions with other political issues. Jahnkow says she welcomes the split as a way of offering more people more forms of involvement. Besides, she feels, members of the peace movement have spent too much time in the past fighting among themselves.
“We should try to stop beating ourselves up and move on. I‘ve been at the San Diego Peace Resource Center 20 years,” she says with a bemused sigh. “Where does the time go?”
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