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Article: Whither all the war protesters? As the Iraq war heads toward 'surge,' the antiwar movement, now mostly online, nears a crucial moment.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- January 19, 2007
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Byline: Brad Knickerbocker Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
On a beach in US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco district the other day, about 1,000 war protesters formed up to spell out the word "IMPEACH." The aerial photo quickly spread to China and Europe.
Still, there were no political harangues, no civil disobedience. The quiet turnout was mostly "old hippies, and even older hippies," jokes event organizer Brad Newsham.
In Boston, a peaceful rally to protest the planned "surge" in US troops drew no more than a few hundred people.
Nearly four years into US combat in Iraq, the antiwar movement has yet to ...