War Protesters Call For City Council Resolution Alderman Joins Ranks With Demonstrators
POSTED: 6:51 pm CDT September 13, 2005
UPDATED: 7:05 pm CDT September 13, 2005
CHICAGO -- <snip> The demonstrators, holding signs and chanting in front of the Daley Center and across from the City Hall/County Building, said they planned to march around City Hall at the conclusion of the protest.
Alderman Joe Moore, 49th Ward, charged that funds needed for citizens affected by Hurricane Katrina and others were "divided into tax cuts for the rich and military actions abroad."
Moore's resolution against military action in Iraq was passed by the City Council just before the war began in 2003, according to a news report.
Bob Clarke, president of the South East Lake View Neighbors Association, said he believed "the City Council (should) take a stand, because some other levels of the government appear to be too spineless, including the U.S. Congress." <snip>
Anti-War Protesters Converge in Forsyth Park (Savannah GA)<snip> Sheehan's 24-year-old son Casey reenlisted with the Army in August 2003. He was killed in Sadr City on April 4 of this year. Sheehan is visiting 42 cities on her way to a three-day protest in Washington at the end of this month.
She's not coming here, but her supporters were in Savannah last night and attracted people who back the war in Iraq. Those against the war held a candlelight vigil in Forsyth Park and were met head on by the supporters. There were a few tense moments, but no one went too far, realizing that violence is not the answer.
It started with lighting candles around the fountain in the park, representing American lives lost in Iraq. It's all part of Sheehan's Bring Them Home Now tour.
"We don't see it's a winnable war and life is being lost on both sides," said Tom Palumbo of Veterans for Peace. <snip>
'Bring Them Home Now Tour' Travels Through PittsburghTour To Reach Washington Sept. 21
POSTED: 3:41 pm EDT September 13, 2005
UPDATED: 5:08 pm EDT September 13, 2005
PITTSBURGH -- The "Bring Them Home Now Tour" rode through downtown Pittsburgh Tuesday. <snip>
The group is made up of not only war protesters, but veterans and families who lost loved ones in Iraq.
"We're not just people out there exposing a philosophical belief, we have been touched by this war and we want to get our message to America," said Bill Mitchell, of Atascadero, Calif.
Hart Viges from Austin, Texas, said, "We need to wake up and see what we are doing to our children, to our brothers, our sisters, our fathers, our mothers and to our family here and to families across the globe." <snip>
Protesters want emphasis on peace (OR coast)By David Courtland, Staff Writer
CHARLESTON -- About 40 opponents of the war in Iraq, some coming from as far as Redmond and Eugene, held a peace rally at Sunset Beach on Sunday, the fourth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"We need to bring home our troops, definitely," said Lori Warren, a spokesperson for a long distance phone service from Redmond who grew up in Charleston, as she helped set up sound equipment just before noon.
The crowd of mostly twenty-somethings filled a clearing between a parking lot and the beach with trees on one side and the Sunset Bay State Park's restrooms on the other.
"We think it's time the country did something to stop what's going on," said Ron Looby, a North Bend potter who heard about the rally on a public radio station. <snip>
Bush protesters going to court (Rochester NY)GREECE — A Nazareth College professor who protested outside Greece Athena High School in May during President Bush's visit is due in Greece Town Court today. Harry Murray and Sister Grace Miller, director of the House of Mercy homeless shelter, lay down in the road at the entrance to the high school on May 24 and were arrested.
Murray, who with Miller has been arrested for antiwar protests in the past, was charged with disorderly conduct, obstructing governmental administration and resisting arrest. <snip>
The Bring Them Home Now bus tour is to roll into Rochester for a rally from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Downtown United Presbyterian Church, 121 N. Fitzhugh St.
A delegation of military families, veterans of the Iraq war and veterans of previous wars will speak about the effects of war. <snip>
Anti-War Protestors Hold Candlelight Vigil (Buffalo NY)Anti-war protestors are heading down the thruway Tuesday after making a stop in the Queen City Monday.
The Bring Them Home Now Tour held a candlelight vigil in Lafayette Square Monday night. <snip>
She set up camp outside president bush's texas ranch in august demanding answers for his death . Now her supporters are on a month long tour.
Mike Ferner of the Bring Them Home Now Tour said, "End the war, bring the troops home now, to take care of them when they come home properly and fairly and to stop sending our young men and women to war for a lie." <snip>
Sheehan cancels upstate stops to help hurricane victims(Syracuse NY)SYRACUSE, N.Y. Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan has canceled two upstate appearances scheduled for today so she could join a peace group helping victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Sheehan was supposed to appear in Syracuse and Albany today along with her "Bring Them Home Now Tour," but instead decided to join members of Veterans for Peace who are assisting hurricane victims in Louisiana.
The upstate events will still go on as scheduled, with other members of Sheehan's group leading the tour. <snip>
“Bring them home now” tour holds rally in DetroitThe northern “Bring Them Home Now Tour” stopped in Detroit over the weekend of September 10-11, holding a rally in Grand Circus Park downtown Saturday afternoon attended by 200 workers and young people. <snip>
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