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  • US War Veterans Martch from Mobile ALabama to New Orleans
    23 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    THE SUNDAY VIDEO 34 mgs 8.5 minutes
    On the 3rd Anniversary of the 2nd Iraq War, Iraq veterans clearly spell out the problems with words and song. Words by Camilo Mejia and Michael Blake; song by VOICE.
    The Walikin’ to New Orleans March started Tuesday the 14th of March in Mobile, Alabama and concluded on Sunday the 19th; with an Anniversary Anti-War Rally in Congo Square, New Orleans.
    Watch The Rest of the Week
    Saturday’s Video ::: House Gutting Vets
    Friday’s Video ::: Kelly (…)

  • Thousands Protest War’s 3rd Anniversary
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From Australia to Hollywood, people march to demand that troops be withdrawn.
    By Sara Lin and Deborah Schoch
    While some brought anti-war placards and petitions to Hollywood on Saturday, a group called Veterans for Peace crafted 100 flag-draped coffins from cardboard cartons and carried them down Sunset Boulevard to mark the more than 2,300 U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war.
    At MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, the American Friends Service Committee laid out 240 pairs of boots, each (…)

  • 10,000 protest at water summit
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    About 10,000 protesters have marched in Mexico City, where 11,000 delegates and representatives met at the 4th World Water Forum to discuss ways to improve supplies for the poor.
    Opponents say that the seven-day forum, which began on Thursday, is a cover for privatisation.
    Participants from 121 countries, debated topics including the developing world’s growing reliance on bottled water bought from private companies, instead of on public water systems, which some call a form of (…)

  • Pentagon Gets Coffin, While Protesters Get Arrested!
    21 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “The concept of a ’preventive war’ does not appear in the Catechism of the Catholic Church." - Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI
    The Pentagon - It’s the nerve center of the U.S. Department of Defense’s War, Death and Spending Machine. It’s a virtual city undo itself, located in the state of Virginia, with over 25,000 employees. Situated not far from the southern banks of the Potomac River, it rises directly opposite Washington, D.C. It may be the largest office building in the world, (…)

  • French unionist seriously injured
    21 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Riot policemen drag away an unidentified unionist from the PTT-Sud who was seriously injured on the Nation square in Paris, Saturday, March 18, 2006, during clashes between protesters and riot policemen, following a students and unionists demonstration against the First Job Contract, known as CPE.
    The unionist was unconscious and in serious condition Monday, March 20, 2006, police and hospital officials said.
    The PTT-SUD union claimed the 39-year-old man had been "violently trampled by a (…)

  • Columbus, Ohio Protests Third Anniversary of the War That Should Have Never Been
    20 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pictures of the Columbus, Ohio protest here: http://prissypatriot.blogspot.com
    Military Families Speak Out chapters and Veterans for Peace in attendance!

  • Red and Black Flag flies over Marseille Town Hall
    20 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    France, Marseille - March 18th 2006 - Organisers have reported over 130,000 demonstrators in the City of Marseille this afternoon, the largest demonstration outside Paris. The demonstration left the Porte D`Aix, under Marseilles own Arc de Triomphe at 3 p.m. to take a circular route around the city to arrive at the Vieux Port.
    As the crowds dispersed a small group of youths then left the main group and succeeded in entering the City Hall overlooking the port. To applause from others they (…)

  • More than 1.5 Million Demonstrators : Monsieur Prime Minister, Revoke Your CPE!
    19 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by UNEF (National Union of Students of France)
    Monsieur Prime Minister, revoke your CPE [Contrat Première Embauche — First Employment Contract]!
    Once again, the demonstrations against the CPE were an enormous success. More than one and half million people poured into the streets to make the Prime Minister understand that they want the revocation of the CPE, period.
    Demonstrators in many marches exceeded 10,000, nay 100,000: more than 350,000 people in Paris in fact, 130,000 in (…)

  • Spring calendar: Two months of activism! Get involved with ANSWER!
    19 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    March 18-20 Global Days of Action April 20 Evening with civil rights attorney Leonard Weinglass April 29 Antiwar March in NYC May 20 "Hands off Venezuela, Hands off Cuba" march in DC
    Starting next weekend and lasting over the duration of the next two months there will be an intense level of mass anti-war and anti-imperialist organizing and mobilization. We hope everyone will join the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and other anti-war groups in building mass opposition to the government’s War for (…)

  • third anniversary of Irak’invasion ; This Year - Keep the Heat in the Street! March 18 & 19, 2006
    19 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    March 18 & 19, 2006 will mark the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. The Troops Out Now Coalition calls on the entire antiwar community at the local and national level to rise above anything that would hinder the unity that the world and history demands of us. Together we must grasp the opportunity to help transform the turning tide against the war into a human tidal wave of antiwar resistance in the streets.
    On the weekend of March 18 & 19, TONC joins with all who are (…)