Life stories : Peace activist Schroeder fought for her beliefs
By Kimberly Matas / Arizona Daily Star Betty Schroeder was an angry woman — and she made sure people knew it. As a member of the Tucson Raging Grannies, she railed against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, getting arrested at a local recruiting office when she tried to enlist. ...
By Theresa Hogue / Corvallis Gazette-Times When Benjamin Lewis was 17, he joined the Marine Corps’ delayed entry program, looking for a new direction in his life. He had dropped out of school and was struggling. The military seemed like a good option.After two deployments to Iraq, and an honorable ...
Brooklyn students not very open to joining the military
By Renata Thakurdyal / New York Daily News Fort Hamilton High School junior Narcella Marganna is a leader in the school's Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps, or JROTC, a nationwide youth military program - but doesn't plan to join the Army. "The Army doesn't have what I want to do," ...
Peace group allowed back in Elgin High School
School board bends after one-on-one meetings on pamphlets By Kerry Lester / Daily Herald ELGIN, IL — A Fox Valley peace group banned in March from distributing pamphlets at Elgin High School has been allowed to return. South Elgin resident Bettina Perillo, a member of Fox Valley Citizens for Peace, ...
U.N. experts rap U.S. "cruelty" to child prisoners
By Robert Evans / Reuters GENEVA, June 6 - United Nations experts on child rights criticised the United States on Friday over detention of juveniles at Guantanamo, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and voiced concern that some may have suffered cruel treatment. They also called for an end to recruitment of ...
UN panel criticizes US war crimes charges for Guantanamo minors
Associated Press GENEVA — A U.N. committee on child rights criticized the United States on Friday for filing war crimes charges against Guantanamo Bay detainees who were picked up as minors. The detainees were recruited to fight while they were children and should therefore be treated as victims rather than ...
By Karina Ramírez / Denton Record-Chronicle DENTON, TX — Calling for the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to counter military recruitment on campus, a number of University of North Texas students rallied in front of the student union Monday. Members of the United Aid group, led ...
Participate in civil disobedience to protest war
A statement from Macalester College Peace and Justice Commitee and Students for a Democratic Society / The Mac Weekly We at Macalester Students for a Democratic Society are certain we are not the only ones who believe that five years of war has been five years too many. We know ...
Janine Boneparte, of California, is arrested by police after she and others would not move out of an intersection near the Capitol, as part of protest against the war in Iraq in Washington on Wednesday, March 19, 2008. Anti-war protests took place across the nation Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Over ...
Police Arrest 22 at Syracuse Iraq War Protest
Syracuse, New York (WSYR-TV) - More than 20 people were arrested during a protest on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war in downtown Syracuse Wednesday. Around lunchtime, a small group of people gathered for an anti-war protest. Members of the Syracuse Peace Council and their supporters gathered at Clinton ...
Over 200 arrested in U.S. antiwar protests
By Andy Sullivan / Reuters WASHINGTON - More than 200 people were arrested across the United States on Wednesday as protesters marking the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq obstructed downtown traffic and tried to block access to government offices. There were 32 arrests in Washington after demonstrators ...
Pepper spray used on Oregon war protesters
By Joseph B. Frazier / Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Police used pepper spray on demonstrators protesting the Iraq war in downtown Portland on its fifth anniversary. The demonstrators later hopped a train and headed for a military recruitment center across town. Police Bureau spokesman Sgt. Brian Schmautz said Shawn ...
War Protesters Halt Traffic, Recall Dead
By Sarah Karush / Associated Press WASHINGTON — Protesters blocked traffic and government buildings in Washington, acted out a Baghdad street scene in Syracuse, N.Y., and banged drums in a parade through San Francisco on Wednesday to mark the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.In other, more somber ...
Protests in US cities to mark Iraq war anniversary
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Opponents of the Iraq war plan to hold marches, sit-ins and other protests on Wednesday in cities across the United States to mark the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion. Anti-war groups said they were organizing hundreds of events during the week as well as larger rallies ...
Demonstrators protest recruitment
By Alonso Yáñez / Daily Sundial LOS ANGELES, CA -- Demonstrators gathered Friday in front of a military recruiting station at Hollywood Blvd. and La Brea Ave. to protest against the higher concentration of military recruitment centers across the country in areas where low-income families live. "We have the power ...
Protesters disrupt governor's State of the State address
By Peter Hirschfeld / Times Argus MONTPELIER – A small group of war protesters briefly stole center stage at Gov. James Douglas' State of the State address Thursday afternoon. Minutes into the governor's speech, the protesters, who included high school students, unfurled banners bearing anti-war slogans.The contingent of about 10 ...
Anti-war demonstrators cited in Williston
By Matt Sutkoski / Burlington Free Press WILLISTON, VT -- Thirteen demonstrators were arrested and cited for trespassing Friday at a Vermont Army National Guard recruiting office as dozens more protesters surrounded the building, opposing military recruiting in schools. The protests grew from a campaign by students at Mount Mansfield ...
Recruiter complains about school protesters
Sergeant asks Board to restrict groups' access By Greg Skinner / Juneau Empire National Guard recruiter Sgt. Seth Beebe asked the Juneau School Board to consider restricting protest groups' access to Juneau-Douglas High School while military recruitment is underway on campus. Beebe spoke during the open comment period at Tuesday's ...
Week of Antiwar Events To Start With a 'Die-In'
Protesters Advocate Civil Disobedience By Michelle Boorstein and Allison Klein / Washington Post A week of events meant to crank up a national demonstration against the war in Iraq is set to begin Saturday, with a 1,000-person "die-in" at the U.S. Capitol led by current and former American troops and ...
With Major Protests Imminent, Military Recruiters Withdraw from UCSC Job fair
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Student Success Marks Third Year of Preventing Recruitment Santa Cruz, CA - With hundreds of students expected to protest, U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps recruiters withdrew from the April 24th Last Chance Job Fair at UC Santa Cruz yesterday. Student protests have made UCSC an increasingly ...
Young war protesters demand that adults protect their future
'We're the ones who have to deal' with consequences By Jessica Blanchard / Seattle Post-Intelligencer The hundreds of high school and college students who walked out of classes and gathered at Westlake Plaza on Wednesday afternoon had a message for adults, especially Iraq war supporters: Quit messing up the world ...
Anti-War Marches Draw Hundreds of Thousands
By Aaron Glantz / IPS WASHINGTON, Jan 28 - Peace activists from across the United States gathered in Washington Sarturday for what they said was the largest demonstration to date against the Iraq war. "It's time for a new day," the Reverend Jesse Jackson told what organisers estimated as a ...
Pvt. Grandma? Seniors try to ‘enlist' in protest of Iraq war
By Andy McMurray / Daily Chronicle DeKALB - As part of a demonstration against the Iraq war, a group of middle-aged and senior-citizen protesters active in local peace movements marched to DeKalb's military recruitment office Thursday under the guise of signing up for service. Following speeches at Northern Illinois University's ...
By Katie Young / Daily Freeman TOWN OF ULSTER, NY - Kings Mall has filed a civil suit against protesters who read the names of dead soldiers and distribute anti-war literature in front of the military recruitment center at the U.S. Route 9W mall. The mall's attorney, Jon A. Simonson, ...
Parents of Recruit Claim Army Made False Promises, Forged Documents
John Hollenhorst / KSL5-TV The Army has launched an investigation into claims, by the parents of a young soldier from Utah, that recruiters used false promises and forged documents to enlist him. The 17-year-old was recruited from a youth prison in Ogden. In a coincidence of timing, a Congressional report ...
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