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Sun Mar 18 06:39:48 PDT 2007

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3/17 Washington D.C.: Protestors march on Pentagon to mark 4th anniversary of Iraq war

Thousands of protesters against the war in Iraq walk in the March on the Pentagon in Washington, March 17, 2007.

by Yang Qingchuan, XinhuaNet (China)

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/18/content_5861263.htm

Highlights

·Protestors marched from Washington to Pentagon to to mark 4th anniversary of Iraq war. 
·Cindy Sheehan,"anti-war mom" delivered a speech, calling for "stopping the war machine". 
·Similar anti-war demonstrations were also held across the U.S. and around the world . 

      Activists hold candles in front of the White House as they take part in an anti-war procession, 16 March 2007, in Washington, DC. Ten of thousands of protesters marched in Washington against the Iraq war Saturday, taking their message on placards, "US out of Iraq now," to the Pentagon's doorstep ahead of the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion. (Xinhua/AFP photo)
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WASHINGTON, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of protesters marched from Washington D.C. to the steps of Pentagon on the other side of the Potomac River Saturday, to mark the 4th anniversary of the Iraq war, which falls on March 20. 

Protesters were carrying such signs that read "U.S. Out of Iraq Now" and "Stop Iraq War, No Iran War, Impeach," "Bring Our TroopsHome", "Stop Occupation in Iraq" and so on. 

Some demonstrators were dressed like Guantanamo prisoners while a father whose son was killed in Iraq, drove his pick-up car with a coffin on the top of it. 

Williams Tucker, a Vietnam War veteran from Kentucky, said politicians should bring U.S. forces home immediately instead of "playing politics with the troops." 

"We should stop occupation of Iraq, and bringing peace back to the Middle East," he said. 

Vivian Hampson, a grandmother from Pittsburgh, Penn., said Iraq war is a huge mistake and won't make the country safer as the Bush administration claimed. 

"What they really want is to occupy the Middle East and control the oil resource. But we must not let them waste American money and lives on such a wrong cause," she said. 

Organizers of the event draws parallel between the event with the historical march on the Pentagon against the Vietnam War in October 1967, which marked a tipping point for the anti-war movement to go mainstream. 

Saturday's march began near the Vietnam War Memorial, just a few blocks away from the White House, and proceeded across the Potomac River toward the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. 

It was not immediately clear exactly how many protestors showed up for the march on the chilly but sunny afternoon, but they began moving over the Memorial Bridge on the Potomac River at about 1 p.m. and were done about an hour later. 

There were no official estimates of the number of participants,but some news reports put the number at about 10,000 to 20,000. 

The organizers of the march -- led by the anti-war group network A.N.S.W.E.R.( Coalition, for Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) -- appeared to set their sites on a range of sweeping goals, from the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush to the end of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. 

After demonstrators arrived in the north side of the Pentagon, Cindy Sheehan, the "anti-war mom" who made headlines camping outside the Bush's Texas ranch after her son was killed in Iraq, took the stage and delivered a speech, calling for "stopping the war machine". 

Anita Dennis, whose son refused the military's call to go to Iraq again, said people should support such resistance to "save lives." 

Michael Berg, whose son died in Iraq, urged the lawmakers to stop funding the war and "impeach Bush." 

On Friday night, a coalition of Christian groups led several thousand marchers in a procession from the National Cathedral. Dozens were arrested praying in front of the White House. 

Outside Washington D.C., similar anti-war demonstrations were also held across the U.S. and around the world in the days ahead of next Tuesday's Iraq war anniversary. 

Anti-war rallies were planned for New York, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Oklahoma City, Hartford, Conn., and Lincoln, Neb. 

Around the globe, about 1,000 people protested in Athens, Greece, while more than 3,000 gathered for peaceful protests in Istanbul, Turkey. Others gathered in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. 

3/16 Washington D.C: Religious protest marches from Cathedral to White House, hundreds of arrests

[D.C. Indymedia Center] Late evening on Friday, March 16, over 3,000 people gathered in Washington Cathedral for a service, and then marched down Mass Ave towards the White House, looking like a sea of fireflies with electric "candles' held high. On arrival at the White House, hundreds were arrested an a planned civil disobediance 

The number of CD participants was so high that CD participants had to be organized by a system of numbers! The cops had stated they could only handle 100 at a time, and the religious peace focussed organizers agreed to that request.

Arrests finally totalled 222 according to the AP wire service reports.

This kind of protest coming from the Cathedral has not been seen in DC since 1991, on the Sunday prior to the start of the First persian Gulf War! on that night, the cathedral was packed too, just like on March 16 this year. That night, anohter candlelight procession left the Cathedral and went to the White House-at that time, closing a normally-open to traffic Penn Ave, which protestors closed almost every night for the first two weeks of that war.

Maybe we will finally start to see people banging drums in Lafayette park every night as well, like we did in Gulf War I to Daddy Bush's everlasting complaint? 

            Thousands of protesters take part in an anti-war demonstration at the White House in Washington, DC, 16 March 2007. (Xinhua/AFP photo)

      Anti-war protesters kneel in front of the White House before being arrested during a demonstration protesting the war in Iraq in Washington, March 16, 2007. (Xinhhua/Reuters photo)

      Thousands of protesters take part in an anti-war demonstration at the White House in Washington, DC, 16 March 2007. (Xinhhua/Reuters photo)

More upcoming major 4th anniversary events around the country:
  a.. March 16-19: Declaration of Peace Campaign 
  b.. March 18: NYC March to End the War 
  c.. March 18: Stop the War Peace Camp, Rally and March in Portland, OR 
  d.. March 18: US Out of Iraq March in San Francisco 
  e.. March 19: No Business As Usual March & Rally in Salt Lake City 
  f.. March 19-23: Veterans Caravan to the Gulf Coast 
  g.. March 20: Mass Mobilization, March & Rally in Chicago 
  h.. Find 4th anniversary events in your area.

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