15,000 march in Chicago against U.S. war drive and nuclear weapons

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Socialist Action banner at Oct. 13 march in Chicago. Although march highlighted "Dump Reagan" (vote Mondale ) themes in its demands and major speakers, it reflected the deep antiwar sentiment of millions of U.S. cit2 SOCIALIST ACTION NOVEMBER 1984 izens. the cost of just one B-1 bomber would operate the Chicago Transit Authority for the same period.

Guadalupe Gonzalez of the FDR noted that nuclear war would probably start in the Third World, with the escalation of a conventional war. "We should not lose sight of why these wars start. The U.S. government fears the new economic order which would result from a victory of the FDR/FMLN in El Salvador, Gonzalez said, "because it would mark the beginning of a new relationship between Central America and the United States."

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was greeted with warm applause as he introduced the Sanchez family from El Salvador, to whom Operation Push has extended sanctuary. He called for the peace movement to reach out and make room for everybody"—to speak out for women, for the oppressed in South Africa-and to make the Western Hemisphere a "war-free zone."

Among those at the rally as the drizzle turned to a downpour were hundreds of high school and college students who had come from as far as Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, and southern Illinois. Senior citizens, including a contingent of Gray Panthers, mingled with young families pushing babies in strollers. Socialist Action/Judy Hill Participation by union rank and file was, unfortunately, relatively sparse.

Although the rally turned out far fewer than the 50,000 predicted by its organizers, it pointed to a new direction for the peace movement by bringing together freeze and anti-intervention organizations for a unified demonstration. While the only road to peace offered by the majority of the speakers was a vote for Walter Mondale, the demonstration could have posed the real alternative: the mobilization of thousands in the streets around issues affecting their lives, independent of both the Democratic and Republican parties.

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