2000+ US Troops died for a lie - Protest tonight - 10/26

[KurtNYC]

There are protests everywhere tonight, Wednesday, 10/26 starting at 6:30pm.

Take your pick from the list here:
http://political.moveon.org/event/events/index.html?action_id=29&search_distance=3&search_zip=10017&submit=Search

Locations include:
Time Square
Tompkins Square Park
The Soldiers and Sailors memorial at 89th and Riverside
The Time Square recruiting center
and many others!

[dennisnyc]

1. and check out press coverage of the vigils here:

http://villagevoice.com/news/0544,ferguson,69491,2.html

'Bush Lied, 2,000 Died'
New Yorkers take to the streets in protest of the war in Iraq

by Sarah Ferguson
October 27th, 2005 12:32 AM

With angry chants of “Bush lied, 2,000 died!” several hundred New Yorkers jammed the traffic island that’s home to the Armed Forces Recruiting Station in Times Square to protest on the day after the Pentagon announced the death of the 2,000th American soldier in Iraq.

That grim milestone brought out an eclectic mix of demonstrators, here and across the nation. In Manhattan, Grandmothers Against the War jostled alongside young anarchists with bandanas masking their faces, Green Party stalwarts, veterans, students, office workers bearing flowers, and a group carrying a dozen large coffins draped in American flags.

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And outside the offices of Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer, about 70 people gathered for an equally somber reading of the names of the U.S. fallen.

“We want to put pressure on both senators to come up with some kind of exit strategy and also demand that they hold the Bush administration accountable for misleading the country to war,” said Gary Weingarten, the owner of the Lower East Side bar Verlaine, who recently helped found a group called truthempowered.org to raise awareness about the Bush administration’s manipulation of intelligence to justify the war.

”It’s obvious Clinton is going to run for president in 2008, and she's been supporting the war because of that,” Weingarten added. “Does that mean she approves of these kind of tactics—of lying to your country to go to war?”

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