1/3 of Anti-war tour hits Cleveland on way to D.C.

[Algorem]

Anti-war tour hits Cleveland on way to D.C.

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1126258271248011.xml&coll=2

Friday, September 09, 2005

A war protest launched in Texas is coming to Cleveland as it spreads across America.

The Bring Them Home Now Campaign will arrive today at the Federal Office Building on East Ninth Street, and fan out Saturday to Akron and Oberlin...

Now they are touring the country in three groups and planning to converge for a rally in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 24...

For more information, call Laurel Hopwood, 216-371-9779, or visit www.nioncleveland.org and click on "Stand w/ Cindy."



Crowd swells at peace show

http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1125999250287340.xml?ncounty_cuyahoga&coll=2

Attendance roughly doubles at yearly anti-war program downtown

Tuesday, September 06, 2005

...Whatever the reason, an estimated 1,000 people came to the Peace Show at downtown's Willard Park to hear music, write group poems, chalk peace symbols, give blood to the American Red Cross, race through obstacle courses to peace, make worry dolls to ease children's fears around the world and protest the air show down the hill...

Jim Misak, one of the peace show's organizers, thinks all the bad news of late has awakened people to the cost of war in blood, fuel and dollars. He said a government fixated on Iraq has neglected our real safety and security, running short of cash to fix New Orleans' levees and of Guardsmen to rescue that city's drowning people...

"I don't know any religious tradition that says we should drop bombs on other people because we're scared," said the Rev. Doug Horner of Franklin Community Church...

Promoters said peace is not just idealistic but effective, having overcome injustices from the Berlin Wall to British colonialism.

[liberal N proud]

1. I forgot that this tour was coming to Cleveland today - Thanks

[unhappycamper]

2. It is NOT AN ANTI-WAR tour; it is a

Pro-Peace tour.

That makes the opposition anti-peace or pro-war.

[MercutioATC]

3. If anybody has communications with them, PLEASE explain that the FAA

has nothing to do with foreign policy.

There was a protest in Oberlin years ago where the organizers decided that Cleveland Center was the only federal presence in town and that they should march there (we're sort of on the outskirts of downtown).

We are a secure federal facility protected by armed guards. In this day and age, it's NOT a good place to show up with a couple of hundred chanting people.