At a time when mainstream media and even so much of the anti-war movement focus most attention on voices of white scholars, career politicians, and U.S. soldiers, as the primary voices of "peace", it is good to see Ryme and and the DC Radio Co-op still striving as always to make space for the most important voices to whom we should all give most of our attention: Iraqis.

Iraqis are featured most often in mainstream and even alternative media outlets, and in the left itself, as abstractions -- numbers, body counts, or as the helpless beneficiaries of good-willed white progressives, which most do not realize is its own means of dehumanizing them in many ways. We make martyrs of our "own", of the blond-haired, blue-eyed, white-skinned activists putting themselves in harm's way or being dragged off for civil disobedience, and too often forget the real martyrs dying by the thousands in Iraq.