Anti-war
demonstration tomorrow
in Washington
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Protest
organized by the Bring Them Home Now Coalition,
which includes Cindy Sheehan’s group, Goldstar
Mothers for Peace
WASHINGTON, September 22—Leaders of the U.S.
peace movement led by Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a
soldier killed in Iraq, expect to mobilize some
100,000 people for a demonstration against the war
and occupation of Iraq tomorrow in Washington D.C.
"We hope to see about 100,000 people on Saturday,"
said Sheehan, the woman who has become a symbol of
pacifism in the United States.
Sheehan is the leader of a group of mothers of
soldiers who have died who, like her after her death
of her son, began to be active in anti-war groups.
The mothers’ group arrived here yesterday after a
three-week anti-war bus tour around the country
urging people to come to the demonstration.
The Bring Them Home Now coalition that includes
Sheehan’s group, Goldstar Mothers for Peace, plans
to hold its protest in the vicinity of the White
House.
If the group’s expectations are met, Saturday’s
march could be as massive as the one held in 2003
before the invasion of Iraq.
However, Bush – who never sympathized with Sheen
when she was camped out in front of his Texas ranch
asking to see him face-to-face – has ratified his
disposition to let more young people from the United
States die, given his statement that the U.S. will
not pull out from Iraq, moreover emphasizing that
there will be no withdrawal during his term, which
means that the war and deaths could be prolonged
until at least January of 2009.
