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ARRESTS
IN WALL STREET PROTEST AGAINST WAR
PROFITEERING & IRAQ WAR (MaximsNews.com, U.N.)
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As the United States entered the fifth
year of the war in Iraq, opponents of the Bush administration policies
have spent three days voicing their opposition across the country.
On Sunday, thousands gathered in
large-scale rallies held by the anti-war coalition United for Peace and
Justice and other groups in cities from cost to coast.
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Today was set aside by the March
19 Peace Actions Coalition (www.march19peaceactions.org)
for smaller-scale nonviolent civil disobedience actions specifically targeting
war profiteers.
Many of the New York City protesters in and around Wall Street were members of
the local chapter of the War Resisters
League, the country's oldest secular peace group, an endorser of the March
19 Coalition.
"We come to the Stock Exchange today to call attention to the companies
that are profiteering from the war," declared the coalition,
"companies like Lockheed Martin, which has seen its stock price rise 116
percent since the start of the war."
One of the Wall Street protesters who had not been arrested so far was Frida
Berrigan, a policy analyst at the Arms Trade Resource Center of the World Policy
Institute at The New School University and a member of the WRL local group and
of WRL's national executive body.
Echoing the coalition statement,
she added, "As we move into the fifth year of a war that is costing $8
billion a month, the only winners are companies like Lockheed Martin and
Raytheon."
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