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March 20, 2023

Protesters Call for End to U.S. Wars on 20th Anniversary of Iraq Invasion
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Over the weekend, protests took place across the U.S. calling for an end
to U.S. involvement in the Ukraine war as the world marks the 20th
anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In the nation's capital,
people rallied in front of the White House and marched in the streets of
D.C. This is Claudia de la Cruz from The People's Forum.

Claudia de la Cruz: "We're here to let the world know that we are
committed as a people to shut the war machine down. The planet and
humanity depend on us. We've got to fight. We've got to continue to
demand an end to NATO, an end to AFRICOM, an end to the Southern Command
and the levels of sanctions that the U.S. has all across the globe. We
need to continue to make the connections of working-class people in the
United States to the working-class people all around the world. So we're
here making those demands. We're also recommitting ourselves to lift up
the antiwar movement once again."

The Costs of War Project estimates up to 306,000 Iraqi civilians have
died from direct war-related violence, while hundreds of thousands more
Iraqi civilians have died from indirect causes and millions have been
displaced. Some estimates put the death toll in Iraq at over 2 million.
In the lead-up to the illegal 2003 invasion, tens of millions of people
took to the streets in thousands of antiwar protests around the globe.


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