Well, per usual, the media under-reported the attendance at this year's "Five Years TOO Long" Peace Rally.
Surely, at least one hundred people came out, opposed to the measley 50 reported by the media. That's double, after all.
But I've stopped kidding myself that the mainstream media will ever be our ally.
I'm not trying to hate. I'm just recognizing that getting mainstream media's attention should never be our primary purpose.
Instead, as we did for this rally, it should be about getting the community together, face-to-face, to see that we are not alone.
Read the Dallas News story on the rally here.
I was glad that the story prominently featured my good friend Yvette Richardson, a veteran who works with Peaceful Vocations (a counter-recruitment group) and her daughter Alicia. They are long-time supporters of the Dallas Peace Center and our events.
We also held an Interfaith Press Conference earlier in the day that received a review in the paper.
But, as usual, our friends at Pegasus News gave the roundest picture of us, featuring both the fringe and the middle.
But in the words of my dear friend Hadi Jawad, "In the heart of our hearts, please hope and pray we don't have to do this again next year."
