Thousands protest U.S. war policies
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On Oct. 25 and Nov. 1, thousands of people joined antiwar marches and rallies in close to 20 cities. The demonstrations-which were initiated by the National Actions for Peace, Jobs, and Justice-centered on demands for an end to U.S. intervention in Central America, an end to U.S. support to apartheid, and an end 40D parese a on hen do a yeek palace in a from ten White House nearly same day, about 2000 people marched in New York City, led by participants in the "Great Peace March," who had crossed the country to dramatize their On Nov. 1, close to 1000 rallied in Boston and 10,000 came out in Los Angeles. This was the largest demonstration against U.S. intervention in Central to nuclear weapons.
opposition to nuclear arms.
America ever held in Los Angeles.
We are printing below reports Chicago. the and makeshift newspaper hats at the end of the march to attend a rally organized around the central slogans of the demonstration. They called for an end to U.S. intervention in Central America and the Middle East, an end to apartheid, and an end to nuclear weapons and nuclear power.
Speakers included Themba Ntinga of the African National Congress and Abdeen Jabarra, national director of the ArabAmerican Anti-discrimination Committee, as well as local speakers from the Pledge of Resistance, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the Illinois Nuclear Freeze Campaign.
The rally was co-chaired by Rev. Clyde Brooks of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Marty Quinn of the Evanston Committee on Central America.
The coalition has called a citywide meeting in the third week of January to form a new coalition around the spring mobilization. Meanwhile an outreach committee has been formed to begin reaching out to labor, religious, and other peace groups in an effort to augment the 40-odd local groups already affiliated to the old coalition.
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