The United National Anti-War Committee held one of the largest rallies in years at New York City’s Union Square on Saturday that also featured a march down to Foley Square where there was a peace festival.
Themes of the rally included: an end to the wars overseas and an immediate withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Libya; cut military spending to fund programs for jobs, education, health care, housing and the environment; support the closing of Indian Point and other nuclear power plants; an end to US aid to Israel and its ongoing occupation of Palestine; and a halt to anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia.
The more than five hundred endorsers of the rally include: Center for Constitutional Rights, Muslim Peace Coalition USA, 1199 SEIU, Veterans for Peace, International Action Center, Pax Christi USA, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Black Agenda Report, Code Pink, American Muslim Association of North America. Green Party of NYS, National Assembly to End U.S. Wars and Occupation, Islamic Leadership Council of Metro NY, War Resisters League, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Cynthia McKinney (former US Congresswoman & 2008 US Green Party Presidential Candidate).
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