Peace

BOSTON – Led by a contingent of war veterans and military families, tens of thousands of New Englanders marched and rallied here March 20, to protest the Bush administration’s war against Iraq. The march and rally, organized by the Boston-area United for Justice with Peace, drew participants from throughout the six-state area.

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Since the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration and its supporters in the media have been working overtime perpetuating an old myth that protesting a war is unpatriotic and against our troops whose lives are on the line.

LOS ANGELES – As California celebrated Cesar Chavez’s birthday, March 31, thousands of people – of all races and nationalities – in Southern California participated in hundreds of actions and events throughout the weekend.

An assassin’s bullet felled the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. King had come to Memphis to support a strike by the city’s sanitation workers.

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As we celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, we are reminded that his words continue to have profound meaning. “A Testament of Hope” was published after Dr. King’s death and presents a summary of his thoughts on the inter-related issues of the fight against racism, for equality, against war, for world peace and social progress.

Independent journalists in Iraq are providing coverage of the war’s human cost, challenging the Bush administration’s motives for war, and examining the Iraqi and Arab people’s response to invasion.

SHAQLAWA, Iraqi Kurdistan – At dawn, on Thursday, March 20, 2003, Iraq suffered what we have always feared and warned against. The U.S. forces launched their first missile attack on Iraq, signaling the breakout of the war they had been threatening to wage under the pretexts of either “regime-change” or the elimination of the country’s weapons of mass destruction.

In the wake of last week’s attack on Iraq by U.S. and British troops, millions around the world poured into the streets for practically continuous anti-war actions. A small sampling follows.

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Carrying on anti-war activity in this very white, very conservative enclave in rural Penn’s Valley, Penn., is remarkably different from what I have experienced before – more than a decade of activism in Chicago, and two decades in Mississippi.

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I am not the president; instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.