US cities are not filled with anti-war demonstrations, yet the apparent quiet does not signify consent.
![Many anti-war organisers shifted much of their focus to electing anti-war candidates to office, writes Manski [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2014127155437701734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Ben Manski is an advocate, scholar, lawyer, and entrepreneur who has been committed to building a US democracy movement since the early 1990s. He is president of the Liberty Tree Foundation, a strategy centre he founded in 2004.
US cities are not filled with anti-war demonstrations, yet the apparent quiet does not signify consent.
![Many anti-war organisers shifted much of their focus to electing anti-war candidates to office, writes Manski [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2014127155437701734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)