M20 in S.F.

[Seth Sandronsky <ssandron@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In SF, One Year of Occupying Iraq Is Too Much, Protesters Say
by Seth Sandronsky
www.dissidentvoice.org
March 22, 2004

Thousands of people rallied in San Francisco on a warm Saturday to oppose
the U.S. assault on Iraq that began one year ago. The protesters were part
of a global day of action against American military occupation of that
Middle East nation.
?My daughter, Sierra, was born when the U.S. attacked Iraq,? said Alyssa
Cardenas, age 27, a third grade teacher from Santa Cruz. ?We have promised
to be activists for peace, to experience unity and to make hope possible,
peacefully.?
The mother and daughter joined many others who gathered during the late
morning in the city?s Dolores Park to hear speakers criticize U.S. policy in
Iraq, Afghanistan, Cuba and Haiti.
Willie Ratcliff, publisher of the S.F. Bay View newspaper, linked U.S.
militarism in the Middle East to racism at home. African American soldiers
are dying disproportionately in Iraq as 50 percent of S.F.?s poor black
males are unable to find a job, he said.
Peter Camejo, the Green Party candidate for president on the California
ballot, assailed Sen. John F. Kerry, the Democratic Party?s pick to defeat
President Bush, for voting to back the U.S. war against Iraq. Rally
organizers also played a new commentary by Mumia Abu-Jamal, the black author
and journalist on death row in Pennsylvania, urging people to pressure
politicians to ?invest in caring, not killing.?
full:
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Mar04/Sandronsky0322.htm

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