Peace – Page 267 – People's World

Labor anti-war group launched

January 16, 2003

CHICAGO – U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW) was founded Jan. 12 at a meeting repeatedly described as “historic” by the participants. The 100 delegates were representatives of local unions, central labor councils and labor peace...

Peace rally rocks church

January 16, 2003 By Evelina Alarcon

CLEVELAND – “No war for oil,” thundered the Rev. Marvin McMickle at Antioch Baptist Church, Jan. 12, before a crowd of more than 600.

20,000 protest war in Los Angeles

January 16, 2003 By Evelina Alarcon

LOS ANGELES – Twenty thousand people of every race and nationality filled the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Jan. 11 in what many are calling the largest city protest against the war in Iraq in...

Rev. Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. and the struggle for peace

January 16, 2003

Exactly one year before his death, on April 4, 1967, Dr. King spoke out against the war in Vietnam at Riverside Church in New York City. Though this speech is not the first time his views...

Say no to the poverty draft

January 16, 2003 By Jessica Marshall And Estevan Bassett-Nembhard

Opinion Last week, a friend who was recruited on his high school campus was sent off to the Persian Gulf region leaving behind his wife and newborn daughter. When he joined the army reserves he never...