Since September 11th, the progressive movement has been on the defensive. Buttimes are changing. The mushrooming Enron scandal; European criticism of thetreatment of prisoners at Guantanamo; the U.S.'s inability to apprehend BinLaden or Mullah Omar, either dead or alive; recession and rising unemployment;Cheney's refusal to release information about his energy task force: all ofthese developments have put the Bush oil- and-war-men on the defensive. It'stime for us to come forward with a political counter-offensive, visibleactivism, outreach and outspokenness, through such activity as the April 20thdemonstration in Washington, D.C. initiated by the National Youth and StudentPeace Coalition, forthright peace and justice electoral campaigns and othercampaigns.