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News Release from the Portage Community Peace Coalition

Stop The Wars, Stop The Lies 3rd Anniversary of US Aggression & Occupation in Iraq

The Portage Community Peace Coalition will be joining with millions around the globe in protesting the ongoing war and occupation in Iraq. Traveling to Columbus OH March 18th for a Statewide Rally - March 19th sponsoring a march and rally in Kent OH.

(PRWEB) March 8, 2006 -- The Portage Community Peace Coalition will be joining with millions around the globe in protesting the ongoing war and occupation in Iraq.

Saturday, March 18th, Kent area residents will be traveling to Columbus for a statewide rally at the Ohio Statehouse. A carpool will leave from 257 N. Water St in Kent at 10:30am. The "Three Years of War in Iraq. End the Iraq War Now!" Rally will begin at 2pm.
www.cpanews.org/march18/

Sunday, March 19th, the Portage Community Peace Coalition will be sponsoring a Rally and Sidewalk March to mark and protest the 3rd anniversary of the Iraq war and occupation in Downtown Kent. The rally will begin at 5pm, at the gazebo at the corner of Main and Franklin in Kent and will be followed by a sidewalk march thru downtown. The march will end back at the gazebo for the weekly vigil for peace and justice.

United for Peace and Justice
Three years of persistent anti-war organizing are having a significant political impact. A majority of people in the United States now agree with the peace movement that this war never should have happened, and calls for immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq are growing. More members of Congress, retired generals and state department officials, newspaper editorial boards and people from all walks of life are demanding the truth and calling for an end to the war.

But the horrors continue. Three years of war have resulted in the deaths of more than 2,000 U.S. service people, and thousands have come home with horrific wounds they will carry for the rest of their lives. Estimates of Iraqi deaths number in the tens of thousands, and more Iraqis are killed every day. The schools, hospitals and homes hard hit by the U.S. military have not been rebuilt. Foreign investors like Halliburton - not the Iraqi people - control the Iraqi economy while the IMF and World Bank "give" a $100 billion loan to Iraq, intent on locking the economic future of that country into the same policies that have punished people around the world.

The war has already cost well over $200 billion in U.S. taxpayer money, and there is no end in sight. At the same time, the people of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have yet to receive the resources they need to recover from Hurricane Katrina and communities around the country are impacted every day by drastic cuts in social spending. And the war has brought new assaults on civil liberties and democratic rights.

The Bush administration is on the run as the foolhardiness and arrogance of their "stay the course" policy has been exposed.

March 19th will mark the third anniversary of a war that never should have happened -- a war based on lies that continues to devastate the lives of thousands, both in Iraq and the United States.

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Press Contact: Sue Jeffers
Company Name: Portage Community Peace Coalition
Email: email protected from spam bots
Phone: 330-673-1416
Website: www.portagepeace.org

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