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target="_blank"><BR /> </a></A> </p></td><!-- Col 1 --> <td class="boxcontents" valign="top" width="587"> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/Sept15rally123.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="0000a0"><b>Antiwar protest in capitol brings 100,000 activists, 200 arrests </b></font></a><span class="style5">&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /> <br /> </span><font face="Verdana" size="2"><i>Sun</i><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>day, September 1</i></font></span></span><em>6</em><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>th, 200</i></font></span></span><em>7</em></font></P> <P><img src="appablomartinezmonsivais.jpg" width="410" height="297"><BR><font face="Verdana" size="1">AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monisvais</font></P> <P><img src="dieinrally.jpg" width="309" height="206"></P> <P><font size="2" face="Verdana">An antiwar protest took place in Washington D.C., and we wish we would have been there! 100,000 people showed up for the rally, first gathering outside the White House and then marched on to the U.S. Capitol building. I knew people were going to get riled up, after Bush's recent <a href="http://www.connietalk.com/bush91307123.html" TARGET="_blank">speech</a> - a thinly veiled announcement that our troops will occupy Iraq for years to come.</font></P> <P><font size="2" face="Verdana">Demonstrators held the protest/march to demand the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, and to request the impeachment of President Bush. Two hundred of the protestors tried to climb over barricades outside the Capitol building, and were arrested. There was no struggle in the arrests, according to several accounts, and the protest was mostly peaceful. Several dozen of the protestors staged a &quot;die-in,&quot; where they lay on their backs in front of Congress to represent the rising death toll in the Middle East.</font></P> <P><font size="2" face="Verdana">The protestors lasted for blocks, walking along Pennsylvania Avenue and repeating, &quot;What do we want? Troops out. When do we want it? Now.&quot; The gathering was organized by veterans, the <a href="http://answer.pephost.org/" target="_blank">ANSWER Coalition</a>, and other groups. Though the ANSWER Coalition had projected 10,000 protestors, the event gathered enormous momentum, and there was even a parallel protest going on at the Washington Monument a dozen blocks away, with about 1,000 people.</font></P> <P><font size="2" face="Verdana">The ANSWER Coalition actually stands for Act Now to Stop War and End Racism. They staged the Sept. 15th protest on the 25th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila Massacre. Speakers at the rally included well-known antiwar activist (and mother of K.I.A. Casey Sheehan); Malik Rahim, a former Black Panther and a long-time prison activist; Ralph Nader; Ramsey Clark, an attorney an activist that used to work for the U.S. Department of Justice; and Etan Thomas, a Washington Wizards basketball player. No idea how he got thrown in the mix there. Well, okay, yeah we do, he's an athlete of the antiwar &quot;Jockocracy,&quot; but it sounded funny. </font></P> <P><font size="2" face="Verdana">Wow. 100,000 people standing up for our rights? We are in shock and awe! Protest is patriotic! 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