Freshman Democrat U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson is making a big campaign fund-raising push today — just before the current reporting period closes at the end of the month — and he’s got some big-name celebrity help.

Martin Sheen, Oliver Stone and documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald each recorded videos praising Grayson and asking for support. The three have something in common with Grayson: opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Grayson calls his fund-raising drive a “Peace Party.” He set a goal of raising $200,000 by the end of the day. The date is symbolic; June 28 is the anniversary of the day Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I. As of 11:40 a.m., he’d raised $103,405, according his campaign website.

“Alan Grayson is a strong, important, absolutely critical voice for peace in the House of Representatives,” Greenwald says in his short video.

Grayson is running for a second term representing Florida’s 8th Congressional District.

Half a Century under the Whip. Rep. Alan Grayson

I was two years old when President Eisenhower gave a stunningly precise prediction of our fate for the next 50 years. He said that for the first time in human history, America had created a permanent military-industrial complex that employed millions and spent billions. “More than the net income of all United States corporations,” he noted.

Eisenhower told us that the domination of this military-industrial complex would have “grave implications” for the “very structure of our society.” He warned against “the disastrous rise of misplaced power.” But he hoped that an “alert and knowledgeable citizenry” would protect us.

If only. As if. You wish.

For the past half century, the military-industrial complex has perpetuated one war after another, at enormous cost in both blood and money. In its lust for oil, it has broken country after country, and now the sea floor. 9/11 cost Osama bin Laden $500,000, while U.S. military action afterward cost us well over $500,000,000,000.

Now, it’s nine years later. And the war goes on. My five children cannot remember a time in their lives when America was at peace.

And no one in power seems to be able to deliver on the things that matter to us — deliver on jobs, on health, on education, on clean water and air, on better roads. On peace. On meeting human needs.

I’ve done my best in Congress to show the way. Now I need your help. On June 28, we’re going to hold an online ‘Peace Party’ event, where thousands of us come together to support this campaign. We need to raise $200,000 or more by that day, to show BP and other corporate behemoths that the “small people” (as BP put it) still matter.

We need a peace dividend. We need new priorities. We need people in government who will tell the military-industrial complex, and Wall Street, and Big Oil, to go to hell. And I’m one of them.