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| Peace Rally talk in Missoula, MO.
February 16th, 2003
Janet Finn, text of Peace Rally talk in Missoula, MO.
Sunday, February 16, 2003
I am overwhelmed to take in this sight of so many of us gathered here today-- it is a glorious mosaic of humanity. I am deeply moved by our collective presence, standing together for peace. |
| Dallas Adds Its Protest Cries
by Roy Appleton, Erich Schlegel, The Dallas Morning News
February 16th, 2003
February 16th, 2003
Dallas Adds Its Protest Cries: With Signs and Speeches, Area Residents Rally Against Iraq War
By Roy Appleton, The Dallas Morning News
The signs didn't beat around the bush: D = Dubya, Dictator, Destructive. Don't Trade Blood for Oil. Warmongers are Evildoers. Girls Say Yes to Boys Who Say No to Bombs.
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| Activists Rally In Newark
by Esteban Parra
February 16th, 2003
The News Journal. Sunday, February 16 , 2003
Activists Rally In Newark: March on Main Street Adds Hundreds of Voices to Global Calls for Peace
By Esteban Parra, staff reporter.
While U.S. leaders ready our military for war with Iraq, about 400 people marched for peace Saturday in Newark....
...While one rally alone may not have much of an impact, larger organized marches such as Saturday's events send messages to government leaders, Pacem's director, Sally Milbury-Steen, said.
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| Hundreds Rally Against War
February 16th, 2003
(posted)Feb 16th,2003
Hundreds Rally Against War: Downtown Demonstration Draws Massive Crowd, by Jeff Burlew, "Democrat Staff Writer"
Antiwar demonstrators packed the downtown chain of parks Saturday in the biggest peace rally in more than a year.
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| The Anti-War Protest You Didn't Hear About
by Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle
February 15th, 2003
La Esperanza, Honduras, 2/15/2003 -- Three o‚clock in the morning is a cold hour in La Esperanza, Honduras. Below the streaming light of a full moon and the starkly illuminated clouds, a bus packed full of members of the indigenous Lenca population of Western Honduras begins to carve a path through the crisp evening air. Over a hundred Lencas organized in the Civil Counsel of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) begin the four-hour journey down from the mountains and towards the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa. |
| SF Rally Report
February 15th, 2003
... My estimate is that around 20,000 college and high school students attended the SF demonstration, which is, of course, largely due to the mass publicity that all the coalitions and hundreds of activists did in the Bay
Area in general... |
| Demonstrators Gather at the University of Georgia Arch in Athens, GA.
by R.C. Rique, Athens Banner-Herald
February 15th, 2003
Five hundred people waved signs and shouted anti-war slogans in a Saturday afternoon peace rally punctuated by a passerby hurling a brick from a car into a small group of children. A 10-year-old boy was struck in the leg, but wasn't injured.
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| Over 2,000 Gather for Peace Rally in Asheville, North Carolina
February 15th, 2003
February 15th, 2003: Over 2,000 Gather for Peace Rally in Asheville, North Carolina.
Over 2,000 Western North Carolinians gathered at Pritchard Park in downtown Asheville today to say "yes" to peace and "no" to the proposed assault on Iraq by the U.S.
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| Inland Northwest Rallies a Success!
by Curtis Bjork, Pullman, Washington
February 15th, 2003
We had a great turnout in the Pullman/Moscow area today, with about 1,500 people (my estimate) gathered. With only 40,000 residents in the area, that's a pretty good percentage, but of course, we can do better. |
| Mill Valley Seniors Stage Protest for Peace
by Tad Whitaker, Marin Independent Journal (California)
February 1st, 2003
Some residents of Mill Valley's Redwoods Retirement Center feel President Bush is leading the country into war and they demonstrated yesterday - using canes, walkers and wheelchairs - to let him know they want no part of it. |
| No War, 2,000 Here Say
Not in Our Name is call for peace
by Samara Kalk Derby, Madison Capital Times
January 29th, 2003
As Ed Garvey walked into the Orpheum Theatre, he said he didn’t know whether 20 people or 1,000 people would turn out to tell the U.S. government “Not in Our Name!” |
| Chattanoogans Say "No" to War
by Rev. Jocelyn Bell
January 29th, 2003
Over 50 people gathered at Miller Park from 12 noon until 1 p.m. to say "No" to war in downtown Chattanooga. |
| Packed conference hall of San Juan County Citizens attend Teach-in
January 27th, 2003
About 120 people filled a conference hall at San Juan College on Monday Jan. 27 to listen to Prof. Ned Harper on Iraqi history, Carol Miller on the at-home social costs of a policy of global military unilateralism, and Vietnam War veterans Don Remington and Bill Cooke on the human face of war. |
| Jan 18th: This Is What Democracy Looks Like
January 23rd, 2003
I write to tell of the rally in Washington D.C. that my wife, son, 3 relatives and I attended. It was one of the most powerful metaphors I have experienced, not explicable with words or pictures. |
| Jan. 18 Report Back from Massachusetts
by Alan Pearson
January 21st, 2003
Today, well over 200 residents from community-based peace and justice groups in Arlington, Cambridge and Somerville Massachusetts came together in 5 degree weather to stand against a war on Iraq and honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King. |
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