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True patriots march and vigil to stop war

March 21, 2003

WASHINGTON – Millions protested in the streets at home and around the world March 15-16, with an estimated 100,000 here, 100,000 in San Francisco, 30,000 in Los Angeles, and 30,000 in Portland, Ore. Rep. John Conyers...

Chicago labor, clergy lead rally for peace

March 21, 2003

CHICAGO – More than 10,000 Chicagoans jammed Daley Center Plaza on March 16 in the largest peace demonstration here since the Vietnam War, to demand that the Bush administration allow United Nations weapons inspectors to complete...

National Clips

March 21, 2003 By Special to People’s World

ANN ARBOR, Mich.: Marching for equal opportunity / TERRA HAUTE, Ind.: Gulf War vet executed / DENVER, Colo.: Violence begets violence / SAN FRANCISCO: Low-wage workers sue high-fashion brands

Students march across state to save education

March 21, 2003

ALBANY – What would happen if Gov. George Pataki raised tuition at New York State’s public colleges and universities, cut financial aid programs, gutted opportunity programs, cut the State University of New York (SUNY) and City...

Cities defy Patriot Act

March 21, 2003

BALTIMORE – Councilman Kwame Abayomi urged his City Council colleagues to approve his “Preservation of Civil Liberties” resolution directing Baltimore city police not to enforce repressive sections of the USA Patriot Act such as racial profiling...