When I first started the Sitch it aimed to just be a blog about whatever I wanted to talk about when I sat at the computer. Slowly I began to think about what I wanted to write about, so that when I got to the computer I can nail some solid reviews, critiques or whatever. My biggest realization, which should have just been a duh!, was that the Sitch was an opportunity to give voice to student activism and radical politics. I’m sure there are plenty of radical blogs out there but so few are devoted to student activism and even fewer to the politics I hold.

It was nice to see month-to-month growth. February saw my biggest day at 17 views!!! It was exciting. March came around and my biggest day was 23 views!! Fantastic. Then April hits and the Campus Antiwar Network East Coast Conference introduced so many new readers. April 8th was my biggest day ever… about 180 views. Today, the Sitch reached 1,000 views. In the last 6 weeks, of those 1,000, 700 people visited the Sitch.

I encourage people who do read the Sitch to give feedback and make comments on posts. The best way to keep this thing alive and interesting is to have some discussion on here. Tell other people about the Sitch. Keeping reading and if you haven’t done so already subscribe to the RSS feed of this blog.

Happy statistics aside, there are 1.2 million Iraqis dead and dying. 4,000+ soldiers dead and dying. Millions of Iraqis displaced. Millions around the world in starvation and dealing with the rise of food costs. Israel continues to hammer the Palestinians. At home, 50 bullets murdering an innocent isn’t enough to punish someone if you’re an arm of the government (NYPD). The Left in Latin America is growing, but so is the agenda of the US to destroy it. $126 for a barrel of oil. $4.00+ for a gallon of gas. Afghanistan is still occupied. The environment is shit and the biggest polluter in the world (us) isn’t doing jack shit about it. Obama, Hillary, McCain are offering the same if not better ways to keep the rich richer and the rest of us dying and broke.

We have a lot of work to do.

No justice. No peace.