Home > Keywords > Actions > Demos-Actions

Demos-Actions

  • Pentagon Focus of a Spirited Peace Demonstration
    18 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
    7 comments

    “There was never a good war, or a bad peace.” - Ben Franklin
    Washington, DC - At 12:30 PM, on March 17, 2007, near the Lincoln Memorial, at Constitution Ave. and 23rd St., NW, peace advocates, in the tens of thousands assembled for a “March on the Pentagon.” A blustery wind was blowing in from the Potomac River, which parallels the area. Meanwhile, the Democrats are in almost full retreat to the Bush-Cheney Gang, with respect to the issue of continued funding for the Iraqi War. And, thanks (…)

  • 3,000 Christians from Across America Coming to D.C. Worship and Protest to End Iraq War
    12 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
    13 comments

    3,000 Christians from Across America Coming to D.C. Worship and Protest to End Iraq War
    Christian Peace Witness Set for March 16th; Worship to be Followed by Procession to White House and Peaceful Protest
    (ChristianPeaceWitness.org) Thousands of Christians — Evangelicals, mainline Protestants, and Catholics — from more than 40 states will fill the Washington National Cathedral to capacity on March 16th to mark the fourth anniversary of the Iraq War. The worship service will be (…)

  • Vigil in Allentown PA Sunday March 18 2-3pm
    10 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    There will be a peace vigil to mark 4 years of Iraq war and a call to say get out of Iraq now!
    Sunday, March 18th from 2-3pm
    Cedar Crest and Tilghman St.
    Allentown PA
    Bring a sign and friends!

  • Photos - Protesters Arrested in Sydney After Cheney Arrives
    23 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Feb. 23 - Twelve people have been arrested and charged in Sydney during protests after U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney arrived for talks on Iraq and the war on terrorism.
    Three women and a man were charged today after demonstrating outside the Shangri-La Hotel in downtown Sydney today as Cheney addressed the Australian-American Leadership Dialogue, according to a New South Wales state police statement. About 50 protesters gathered outside the hotel.
    Seven men, aged 16 to 53, and a (…)

  • Photos - Italians protest U.S. base in Vicenza
    18 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    Protestors demonstrate against the expansion of a U.S. military base in Vicenza, northern Italy, February 17,2007.
    Protesters converged on the small northern Italian city of Vicenza on Saturday to speak out against the planned expansion of a U.S. military base there.
    Italian government officials had warned of the risk of violence, but the demonstration was peaceful and without incident.
    Banners with angry slogans were directed as much against the Italian government as against American (…)

  • 1,000 protestors demonstrate against the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Essen
    12 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    About 1,000 protestors demonstrate against the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Essen, Germany, February 10, 2007
    Members of non-governmental organisations wear masks of the G7 finance minsiters as they protest for development aid and the remission of debt for poorest contries in front of the G7 finance ministers meeting in Essen, western Germany.
    World finance chiefs gathering for a G7 summit were upbeat on the outlook for the global economy, but warned that high oil prices could put an (…)

  • Photos - Hundreds protest against Munich security meeting - 10/02/2007
    11 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    10.02.2007
    Several hundred people on Saturday took to the streets of downtown Munich amid tight security to protest against the three-day Munich Security Conference which opened in the Bavarian capital on Friday evening.
    Holding anti-US and pro-peace signs, radical leftists, anarchists and peace activists marched near the bastion-like conference site as hundreds of policemen kept a watchful eye on the peaceful crowd.
    Protest organizers expected to see around 5,000 people for the (…)

  • Tens of thousands march in Mexico City to protest tortilla prices
    1 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ioan Grillo ASSOCIATED PRESS
    8:30 p.m. January 31, 2007
    MEXICO CITY – About 75,000 trade unionists, farmers and leftists marched through downtown Mexico City on Wednesday to protest price increases for basic foods like tortillas – the staple of Mexico’s poor – and to demand a change in economic policy.
    The march represented a challenge to President Felipe Calderón’s market-oriented policies and one banner read “Calderón stole the elections, and now he’s stealing the tortillas!” (…)

  • America Rising Up in Historic Protest: "What Part of ’Bush Lied’ Don’t You Understand?" PHOTOLOG
    30 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Celebrities, Troops, Families Protest War Flag-Covered Coffins Symbolized War Dead
    AP January 27, 2007
    WASHINGTON — Convinced this is their moment, tens of thousands marched Saturday in an anti-war demonstration linking military families, ordinary people and an icon of the Vietnam protest movement in a spirited call to get out of Iraq.
    Celebrities, a half-dozen lawmakers and protesters from distant states rallied in the capital under a sunny sky, seizing an opportunity to press their (…)

  • March on the Pentagon SATURDAY March 17 2007
    30 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    March on the Pentagon Saturday, March 17, 2007
    40th anniversary of the historic 1967 march on the Pentagon
    _ 4th anniversary of the start of the Iraq war
    On March 17, 2007, the 4th anniversary of the start of the criminal invasion of Iraq, tens of thousands of people from around the country will descend on the Pentagon in a mass demonstration to demand: U.S. Out of Iraq Now! 2007 is the 40th anniversary of the historic 1967 anti-war march to the Pentagon during the Vietnam War. The (…)