200 join Boston anti-war protest

[unhappycamper]

200 join Boston anti-war protest
By Matt Kane CORRESPONDENT
Sunday, October 28, 2007


WORCESTER— Despite rainy weather, nearly 200 protesters from the Worcester area traveled to Boston yesterday to participate in a national rally against the war in Iraq.

“The conditions in the war are a lot worse than this,” said Joyce Carpenter-Henderson as she waited in the rain on Russell Street with other protesters for the Boston-bound bus. “This is another Vietnam.”

The Worcester group joined thousands of other protesters at noon on Boston Common, where Howard Zinn, historian and author of “A People’s History of the United States,” as well as politicians, activists and leaders of nonprofit organizations, spoke. Bands played rock, hip-hop, gospel and soul music on the Boston Common bandstand before the protesters marched to Copley Square and back.


The Boston rally was part of a national day of protest taking place in more than 11 cities, including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

The Worcester contingent met at 10 a.m. yesterday in front of St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Cathedral on Russell Street. The group included seasoned protesters who recalled rallies of the Vietnam era as well as students from the College of the Holy Cross, Clark University, Anna Maria College and Assumption College.

“The peace movement isn’t unified enough,” said Chris Kessing, a senior at Assumption and a member of the college’s Students Against the War. The 21-year-old mentioned, as an example, a massive protest outside the White House on Sept. 15 that received insufficient media exposure.


Rest of article at: http://www.telegram.com/article/20071028/NEWS/710280440/1101



uhc comment: Worcester is about 50 miles west of Boston. BTW, the town's name is pronounced WOO-ster.

[ET Awful]

1. Not to pick any nits or anything, but I thought it was

Wusstah :P

[unhappycamper]

2. You are correct.

My bad.