Article Mentions Mike Gravel's Speech at D.C. Protest

Kansas City infoZine (March 20, 2008) mentions Senator Gravel's speech at the war protest in Washington D.C.

<blockquote>Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel appeared at the protest at McPherson Square, about an hour before the Students for a Democratic Society crowds bumped up against police at 15th and K streets NW. Gravel, a Democratic presidential candidate, gave a short speech and spoke with reporters and protesters.

"The protest is proof that representative government is not working. When people have to protest it means the laws are not effective," he said. 

Gravel said he doesn't think there will be a draft, but if the war doesn't end soon there will be mass disillusionment. 

"It destroys a generation of protesters. They become cynics, because they rise up, nothing happens and then they just walk out," he said, noting that there were fewer protesters than on past anniversary dates.</blockquote>