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March 20, 2005
Iraq War Anniversary Protest
Yesterday I joined hundreds of fellow Houstonians to protest the illegal invasion of Iraq. The event was sponsored by the March 19 Coalition and endorsed by the Progressive Workers Organizing Committee, International Socialist Organization, Hurricane Collective, Axis of Logic, and International Action Center.
We marched Dunlavy Park to Bell Park.
We had lots of media attention, including a reporter from KPFT, Channel 26 News and even CNN. Click the Texas link in the lower right hand corner on the CNN page. See if you recognize anybody in that photo wearing a blue shirt with a white flag on it.
WHDC's own Ray Driskill joined in the protest.
There were a few very lame anti-protest protestors. 
I didn't make it to the candle light vigil downtown, but I hope someone on our team did and will report.
Posted by Lyn Wall at March 20, 2005 10:58 AM | Permalink
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Good pictures.
Here are some statistics from Think Progress on the Iraq war two years after the invasion.
Posted by: Marc Olivier at March 20, 2005 12:09 PM
Ron and I went to the candlelight vigil downtown. It was a very moving and solemn affair. It was rainy and sort of cold, but approximately 200-250 people showed up, I think. I'm not good with guesstimating crowds. The candles were a beautiful tribute. We had speakers and songs of peace. It was hard to listen to the names of the dead with taps playing in the background. All I could think was that every one of those people would still be alive today if not for Bush and his desire to invade Iraq to control all that oil. The PAA, of which Ron and I are members, did a fantastic job of setting this event up and pulling it off. Kudos to Bill Crosier and everybody else who worked so tirelessly to make the event a success.
Posted by: Kris Graham at March 20, 2005 12:18 PM
Just a heads up, but the involvement of the International Action Center might want to be looked at a bit more closely if credibility is desired. While I'm one of those Democrats who is supportive of action in Iraq, I think it does a disservice to those who are on the other side to be associated favorably with apologists for (if not more directly with) Kim Jong Il and Slobodan Milosovic.
Not quite the company I think one really needs to keep when attempting to appropriate the sentiments of deceased servicemen & women.
Posted by: Greg Wythe at March 20, 2005 12:47 PM
A little poetry for the democrats....
Somewhere between spacious skies
And freedom fries
My heart was broken by my government's lies
My heart's in tiny pieces
Begging for due process
My civil rights have lost their civility
And rank and file democracy
Fights with a rank theocracy
Our rights shoved through Enron's shredder
Under the guise of making them better
We buy ourselves
In order to sell ourselves
Short
It's all in that report
That history my country forgot
With a shiny new candy coating
And we call it freedom.
The truth is never hard to find
Only hard to believe
In
Can we possibly win?
A war WE started?
Our empirical mentality
Needs to wake up to reality
We are not Gods
Nor God-like
When did our morals go on strike?
We take so many souls
To save our own
Skin
(Or is it oil?)
Hear my heart's turmoil.
We blindly bomb
People we don't know
Allowing animosity to grow
Until the bubble of pop culture pops
And the overall insanity stops
The dead arrive in higher numbers
While our populace slumbers
How many will it take...
For God's sake?
JoAnna Hill *Copyright 2005
Posted by: Joeybear at March 20, 2005 05:23 PM
Thanks for filling us in on the candlelight vigil Kris!
Posted by: Lyn Wall at March 20, 2005 05:50 PM
Here's a website commemorating those who have lost their lives in the Bush War.
Posted by: Stace Medellin at March 20, 2005 08:23 PM