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Headlines : Iraq

Summary:

To the streets! To the barricades! Five years of (illegal & immoral) war is five years too many! Join your local resistance movement, stand up, and let your voice be heard! March in the streets, but what’s more, TAKE DIRECT ACTION!

[Posted By ShiftShapers]

By John Christoffersen
Republished from Google News (AP)

Activists cite frustration that the war has dragged on for so long and hope the more dramatic actions will galvanize others to protest.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Octogenarian Jim Barron has hearing aids and a pacemaker. The prostate cancer survivor received a cortisone shot this month to ease the pain from an old shoulder injury.

“It got to the point where I couldn’t lift a glass of water,” Barron said.

Despite his aches, Barron planned to risk arrest Wednesday, the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which has claimed the lives of nearly 4,000 U.S. troops. He’s part of a nationwide peace movement using the anniversary to protest with nonviolent civil disobedience.

Anti-war protests were scheduled in Washington, D.C., where demonstrators vowed to block the entrance to the Internal Revenue Service and to disrupt the offices of lobbyists who represent military contractors and oil companies profiting from the war.

College students from New Jersey to North Dakota planned walkouts, while students at the University of Minnesota vowed to shut down military recruiting offices on campus. Barron geared up to participate in a protest in Hartford, Conn.

“This is the first time coordinated direct actions of civil disobedience are happening,” said Barbra Bearden, communications manager for the group Peace Action. “People who have never done this kind of action are stepping up and deciding now is…

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