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Volume 44,Issue 12
Rally Hopes to Bring the Troops Home
WILL MONTOYA
Editor-in-Chief
LAURA PHILLIPS
Opinions Editor
Photo by Will Montoya
Members of Fayetteville Peace for
Justice participate In a small vigil on
Sunday March 6th. Near the Market
House In downtown Fayetteville.
Photo courtesy of www.unitedforpeace.org
March 18-20 marks the two-year an
niversary of the U.S. bombing and
invasion of Iraq.There’sa new urgency
and a stronger determination within the
global antiwar movement to bring the
troops home now.
Photo courtesy of Krtcampus.org
An Iraqi man throws rocks at one of
four U.S. Army Humvees that were
destroyed in northern Baghdad, Iraq,
on Monday, April 26, 2004.
The second anniversary of the
invasion of Iraq will bring anti-war
activists to Fayetteville this Satur
day.
Just like last year, on the one
year anniversary of the war, over
1200 people gathered in Fayetteville
for what many say was the city’s
largest peace rally since the Viet
nam War. This year, an even larger
amount of people are expected for
the second armiversary.
This year’s main objective is to
emphasize the belief that U.S. mili
tary troops need support by bringing
them home.
“Activists from across the na
tion will gather in Fayetteville in
an effort to bring the troops home
from a war that wastes people’s lives
for something that doesn’t serve
the people,” said Lou Plummer, a
member of Fayetteville Peace for
Justice.
Unhed Peace for Justice, the
largest anti-war coalition in the
nation, is nationally advertising a
“major regional protest in Fayette
ville, N.C.”
The rally will be part of a three-
day event which was organized
from coalition work between many
national and local organizations;
including Fayetteville’s Quaker
House, Military Families Speak
Out, Veterans Against the War, Gold
Star Families for Peace, Bring Them
Home Now and North Carolina
Council of Churches.
The events will start tomor
row with an 8 p.m. hip-hop concert
featuring artists Little Brother and
Ricanstruction. The concert will
be held at Seabrook Park Resource
Center at 706 Langdon St.
“On March 19th, we’re hav
ing a fully permitted, peaceful,
respectfiil, family-safe, march and
rally,” Plummer said. “People will
gather for the march at the Cumber
land County Health
Center starting at
10 a.m. At noon
we will step off for
a short march to
Rowan Street Park
at the corner of
Rowan Avenue and
Woodside. Then
from 1-4 p.m. we
will listen to a va
riety of speakers to
include Iraq Vet
erans against the
War, Veterans for
Peace, Gold Star
Families for Peace,
as well as youth
and other organiza
tions who will be
there to lend their
support to our call
to bring the troops
home now.”
the outcome of the rally and any
future plans for other events.
“I would like to encourage
anyone in the Fayetteville commu
nity to come to the rally and show
their support and their love for the
different families that are going to
be there,” Plummer said. “Whatever
your feelings are on the war, come
out and show your solidarity with
the victims of the war.”
For more information about
Saturday’s rally and other scheduled
events go to www.NCpeacejustice.
org or www.unitedforpeace.org.
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