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Councilman Bill Perkins picked up both the spirit and intent of Hammad's protest, demanding "Taxes for peace, not war," he said, and then quoted Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war."
"[Bush] must go, Bush must go!" Councilman Charles Barron chanted, exhorting listeners who joined him in chorus after chorus of rejection. "We have lost nearly 580 troops, countless number of Iraqi citizens, and spent more than $160 billion," he continued, "and we haven't even found a firecracker in Iraq, let alone weapons of mass destruction.""We don't need a former insider to tell us what we've known all along," [Dennis Kucinich] told Amy Goodman during an interview on "Democracy Now!" Monday morning. Thousands who attended the march would have shouted a thunderous "Amen" to the candidate's remarks.See the full content of this document
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Marchers Chant: 'Whose Streets? Our Streets!'
There may be dispute about the number of people who jammed the streets opposing the year-long war in Iraq last Saturday in Manhattan, but there is no mistaking the message, which was a sustained denunciation of th...
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