Greater Lansing Network Against War and Injustice: March 2009

Dozens join protest against ongoing war

Dozens join protest against ongoing war
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Dozens join protest against ongoing war
By Jeff Kanan
The State News
Published: March 19, 2009

More than 50 students, faculty members and area residents met Thursday on the median of Grand River Avenue at Abbot Road to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.

Holding colorful signs and flags, they urged residents to remember fallen soldiers and to support troop removal in Iraq.

“Even though we’re hopeful our troops will be out of there by 2011, the war still goes on, the cost goes up and people are dying,” said Ann Francis, a member of the Greater Lansing Network Against War and Injustice and an event coordinator.

The Iraq war began March 19, 2003, and has cost the country more than $600 billion, according to some estimates.

Published on Thursday, March 19, 2009

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