------------------------- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the July 15, 2004 issue of Workers World newspaper -------------------------
RICHMOND MARCH WANTS TROOPS HOME
Over 1,000 demonstrators marched and rallied in Richmond, Va., July 3 to demand an end to the war on Iraq. The protesters called for real sovereignty for Iraq, bringing the troops home now, ending the occupations of Iraq, Haiti, Afghanistan and Palestine, and money for jobs and human needs, not war.
King Salim Khalfani, executive director of the Virginia NAACP, led the diverse and enthusiastic crowd in chants of "the only solution is the people's revolution" and "the only terrorists in the USA are the FBI and the CIA."
The march, nearly three miles long, stop ped to hear speakers outside a right-wing daily newspaper, at the State Capitol, and at the offices of CACI International--a corporation under contract to the U.S. government whose involvement in the horrendous illegal tortures at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has been exposed.
Marchers received great support from people in cars--honks and shouts, fists raised and peace signs--as the march headed down Broad Street, the city's main drag.
The rally and march were called by the Virginia Anti-War Coalition. Endorsers inclu ded, among others, the Muslim Student Association of Virginia Common wealth University, Richmond ANSWER, Food Not Bombs, the Defenders for Free dom, Justice and Equality, the Progressive Muslim Network, the Richmond Greens, the Living Wage Campaign and the Unitarian Church.
-- Susanne Kelly
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