On Wednesday, March 19, 2008, on the eve of the sixth year of the “war on terror” and war in Iraq, hundreds and thousands of people in the US organized to take the streets in protest. However, on the same day most news media headlined the message by US president George Bush of a “strategic victory” in Iraq. Even in the midst of a media messaging campaign by the Bush administration and dominant news media, there were thousands who were thinking critically for themselves and who were about to take action even if their president spoke otherwise.