Weekend War Protest

By Rachelle Bowden in News on Mar 20, 2006 3:31PM

This weekend, all over the world, people protested the 3rd anniversary of the war in Iraq. In Chicago, about 150 demonstrators gathered at Dearborn Federal Plaza to pass out leaflets and listen to speeches. But this downtown rally was just one of several throughout the city.

That night about 7,000 people came together from all over the city to march on Michigan Avenue. The Sun-Times reports that this "appeared to be the largest U.S. anti-war demonstration." It seems from these video clips that the protest mood ranged from street celebration, to angry speeches and yelling, to chants.

You can see more protest images here and here.

The Pentagon says that 2,313 US service members have been killed in Iraq and that another 278 troops have been killed in Afghanistan since Oct. 7, 2001.

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