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NEW YORK – People from all walks of life gathered here March 20 to rally, march and demand the Bush administration return the troops home and end the occupation of Iraq. Anti-Bush sentiments were high among the estimated 100,000 people from up and down the East Coast. click here for Spanish text

The Israeli government’s assassination of Hamas founder and spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin has ignited a firestorm of outrage and turmoil throughout the Middle East and far beyond.

FAYETTEVILLE, Carolina del Norte – Más de 800 personas marcharon por esta ciudad voceando, “Vuelvan las tropas a casa, ahora”.

NEW YORK – Gente de todos los sectores sociales se reunieron aquí el 20 de marzo para manifestarse, marchar y exigir que la administración Bush vuelva las tropas a la casa y ponga fin a la ocupación de Irak.

Gente en más de 60 países – desde Japón Corea del Sur y Australia, a España, Italia y Bretaña, a Egipto y Sudáfrica, a Colombia, Cuba, Méjico, Canadá, Puerto Rico, República Dominicana y hasta en el mismo Irak – hicieron manifestaciones demandando el fin de la ocupación estadounidense de Irak.

Protesters in more than 60 countries – from Japan, South Korea and Australia, to Spain, Italy and the U.K., to Egypt and South Africa, to Colombia, Cuba, Mexico and Canada – called for an end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. click here for Spanish text

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DOVER, Del. – Parents of soldiers killed or wounded in Iraq, holding black wreaths and photos of their dead sons, marched to Dover Air Force Base March 14 to demand that George W. Bush stop hiding Iraq war casualties and bring the troops home. click here for Spanish text

At the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India, this January, victims of Agent Orange, which the U.S. military sprayed over 12 percent of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, gave moving testimony of the continuing price Vietnam is paying in human and financial terms, nearly 30 years after the war ended.

In a stunning repudiation of the pro-Iraq-war policy of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, a key European ally of President George Bush, Spanish voters overwhelmingly rejected Aznar’s designated successor and elected Socialist leader Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero instead.