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Past Anti-War Events in Louisiana
March 28: Festive Anti-War March in New Orleans
Approximately 60 people protested the war, marching from One Shell Square down Poydras to Texaco's office, and eventually ending at Jackson Square. read march report
March 20: Bush Starts War, Louisiana Starts Protesting
protestors in New Orleans | People converged in cities across Louisiana to demonstrate their disgust, anger, and sadness at the start of Bush's war. About 700 people gathered in front of the Federal Building in New Orleans before marching to Jackson Square. Similar actions took place in Baton Rouge and Shreveport in conjunction with dramatic protests across the world, such as the shutting down of San Francisco.
New Orleans: report from march
photo by Walt Staton |
March 15: Largest Anti-War Protest Yet in New Orleans
Over 1000 people rallied against a preemptive US attack, in a demonstration the Times-Picayune wrote "may be N.O.'s largest in decades." Marching from Armstrong Park to Jackson Square, protestors blocked traffic on Rampart, Canal, St. Peters and Decatur. Protestors were allied with others in cities across the world and the nation, including over 45,000 thousand in Washington DC and 80,000 in San Francisco. There was a candlelight vigil from 7pm-8pm the next night, March 16, in Jackson Square.
New Orleans: report from march | march photos | more march photos | report from vigil |vigil photos | Times-Picayune march report |
photo by Kevan Smith |
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Nov 23 - New Orleans
On Saturday Nov 23 hundreds of people from across Louisiana gathered in New Orleans to protest a possible US war on Iraq's citizens. Several hundred people from Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Shreveport, and New Orleans, gathered at Congo Square in New Orleans at noon before marching along Rampart and Canal streets to Jackson Square for a peace rally. Protestors filled the road, blocking traffic for blocks and eliciting a mostly positive response from passerbys.
photos of march | video of march | photo from Times-Picayune |
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Nov 2 - New Orleans
On Saturday Nov 2 people in New Orleans marched to express their opposition to the US preemptively attacking Iraq.
photos | more photos |
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Oct 26 - Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Around the World
On Saturday Oct 26 people around the world publicly expressed their opposition to the US preemptively attacking Iraq. About 100 people participated in a solidarity rally in New Orleans on Saturday, and anti-war protests were also held in Baton Rouge and New Orleans on Friday. For more info on the protests:
New Orleans: photos | more photos
Washington DC: DC IMC | AP news report
San Francisco: SF IMC | SF Chronicle
Reports from IMCs around the globe
Oct 21 - New Orleans Die In at Tulane
Click here to see images from the "Die In" at Tulane on 10/21/02.
Death March article on Loyola's newspaper [with photos -- free registration required]
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Other news about events in Louisiana
Peaceful Resistance
"Street Pictures of Peace" -- images and video of anti-war protests in New Orleans
New Orleans Indymedia
often has reports and photos from anti-war events and discussion in the forums about tactics
Baton Rouge's CAWI
website for the Coalition for Alternatives to the War on Iraq often features photos and reports from past events
News about events outside Louisiana
Iraq Peace Team
info about activists that are on the ground in Iraq in solidarity with the people of Iraq and working to prevent a US attack
Indymedia
info is frequently posted on an Independent Media Center about global protests
Electronic Iraq
"News portal on the US-Iraq crisis published by veteran antiwar campaigners Voices in the Wilderness and respected Middle East supplementary news publishers, the Electronic Intifada"
Iraq Journal
a collection of regular reports from Iraq
Yahoo's anti-war protest coverage
Global news round-up via Google
Newstran
includes an Arabic media directory and translates almost every major newspaper in the world into English
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