A march was held this Saturday – March 17, starting at 11:00 a.m. The Wichita Peace Center held a “END THE WAR! NOW!” demonstration. They marched from from Minisa Park (13th and Jeanette), near the Arkansas River to the Peace Center House, were a rally was held.
About 100 attended the march which was staged to correspond to the national War protests in Washington and demonstrations
across U.S.
Our local march got no press at all. Signs demanding the troops be brought home were mixed with drummers from a youth group from the town on Newton, Kansas.
March together one mile from Minisa Park (13th and Jeanette) to the Human Cost of War Memorial at the Peace Center (13th and Topeka ). Then rally at the Peace House to hear keynote speaker Kathy Kelly.
“I learned one thing from this march,” Kelly said. “A new slogan – Nobody messes with the peace machine.”
Picture from the march will come later. -史蒂夫 奥多
Around the country other marches were held:
War anniversary draws protesters to Washington and demonstrations
across U.S.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Denouncing a conflict entering its fifth year,
protesters across the country raised their voices Saturday against
U.S. policy in Iraq and marched by the thousands to the Pentagon in
the footsteps of an epic demonstration four decades ago against
another divisive war.
A counterprotest was staged, too, on a day of dueling signs and
sentiments such as "Illegal Combat" and "Peace Through Strength," and
songs like "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "War (What's It Good
For?)."
Thousands crossed the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial to
rally loudly but peacefully near the Pentagon. "We're here in the
shadow of the war machine," said anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, the
mother of a soldier killed in Iraq. "It's like being in the shadow of
the Death Star. They take their death and destruction and they export
it around the world. We need to shut it down."
Smaller protests were held in other U.S. cities, stretching to
Tuesday's four-year anniversary of the Iraq invasion. In Los Angeles,
Vietnam veteran Ed Ellis, 59, hoped the demonstrations would be the
"tipping point" against a war that has killed more than 3,200 U.S.
troops and engulfed Iraq in a deadly cycle of violence.
"It's all moving in our direction, it's happening," he predicted at
the Hollywood rally. "The administration, their get-out-of-jail-free
card, they don't get one anymore."
-Associated Press writers Ann Sanner and Cal Woodward contributed to
this report.
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