Peace

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.

El pueblo estadounidense renovó su oposición a la guerra y ocupación ilegal e inmoral de Irak. El 20 de marzo, miles salieron a manifestar su repudio a la política bélica de la administración Bush.

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

Here is a bird’s-eye view of actions in over 300 cities and towns on March 20 as Americans renewed their simmering opposition to the war and occupation of Iraq and turned their attention to the reeking landfill of lies that led the U.S. into war: click here for Spanish text

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.

WASHINGTON – Hundreds of protesters picketed the offices of the Halliburton and Bechtel corporations in 20 cities, Feb. 24, with signs reading “Merchants of Death” and “Stop the corporate invasion of Iraq.”

LAWRENCE, Mass. – “My son has to be a symbol of peace,” Fernando Suárez del Solar told this reporter in an interview here March 9. His son Jesús, a lance corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, was one of the first U.S. soldiers to die in the invasion of Iraq. click here for Spanish text