Joint protest against U.S. military
By Cheryl LaBash
Detroit
The lights and wreaths twinkled, but on Nov. 19 anti-war
protesters did not take a holiday--not in Detroit or Lansing,
Mich., nor in Windsor, Canada. Despite a persistent rain,
sign-toting crowds gathered at both ends of the Detroit-Windsor
tunnel demanding an end to the U.S. siege of Falluja and
murderous occupation of Iraq. Rush-hour drivers honked in
support.
The Pan-African Newswire reported, "Earlier in the state
capital of Lansing, there was a vigil and later a march to
express outrage over the mass killings in Falluja carried out
by the American military."
The demonstration at the tunnel was called by the Michigan
Emergency Com mittee Against War and Injustice. Earlier in the
week members of the Detroit Area Peace and Justice Network
picketed the federal courthouse to protest the attack on
Falluja.
Abayomi Azikiwe of MECAWI said: "In Detroit on Jan. 17,
there will be a mass demonstration through downtown in honor of
the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to acknowledge his
anti-war and social-justice legacy. This date is the annual
commemoration of the slain civil-rights leader's life, who was
assassinated in Memphis in 1968 while working to win a contract
for striking sanitation workers."
Additional anti-war activities including participation in
Stop the War Week will be planned at the MECAWI meetings
announced at www.mecawi.org.
Reprinted from the Dec. 2, 2004, issue of
Workers World newspaper
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