JAN. 19, WASHINGTON, D.C.
Youth send anti-war message to war makers
Over a thousand students and youth marched through the
streets here on Jan. 19 to protest threats of a war on Iraq.
Outraged that the youth of this country--primarily from
oppressed communities--would be sent to fight a war on the
people of Iraq in the interests of Big Oil, they shouted:
"Hell, no! We won't fight for Texaco!"
At an opening rally between the Justice and FBI buildings,
Peta Lindsay, an 18-year-old first-year student at Howard
University and one of the organizers of Student and Youth
ANSWER, which called the demonstration, told the crowd: "This
is the center of all the racist attacks on people of color."
The FBI and Immigration and Naturalization Service have been
targeting Arab students and demanding access to college
records. "We will defend ourselves and our brothers from these
racist witch hunts," said Lindsay.
The students and youth marched to the White House, President
George W. Bush's "Presidential Palace," where they held a
speak-out against his endless war plans and demanded, "Fund
education, not occupation!" High school and college students
came from all around the country and from as far away as Japan
and the Nether lands to let Bush know that youth all around the
world are saying no to war and racism.
--Michelle Quintus
Reprinted from the Jan. 30, 2003, issue of
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