Local group organizes protest against war in Iraq

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http://www.winfieldcourier.com/w060311/Thurs4.html

By FOSS FARRAR Arkansas City Traveler

WINFIELD — A high school senior led a group of 35 people on a peace march along downtown sidewalks Wednesday evening chanting protest slogans against the war in Iraq. Several motorists honked their horns in support.

“We women are rising up to demand an end to the bloodshed and destruction,” said Staci Dennett, the local organizer, before the 15-minute march from Memorial Park to the Island Park Peace Garden. Dennett is a senior at Winfield High School

The group of mostly young women high school students and professors and students from Southwestern College joined in a nationwide celebration of International Women’s Day. The Winfield march was one of many anti-war events sponsored by a women’s peace group, Codepink. They were being held in more than 50 U.S. cities and a dozen countries.

“We’re for jobs and education, not for war and occupation,” the group chanted on the march. “Hell no, we won’t go; we won’t die for Texaco.”

[ClayZ]

1. Bravo! Kick

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Thanks for the report

Looks like even Kansas is waking up.