COMMUNITY
Anti-war activists gather at “Stop the War” rally
Gulf war a waste of money and lives,
say peace group members at rally
By June Russell
Emerald Reporter
More than 100 communitv
members and representatives of
several peace organizations
marched from the EMU Court
yard to the Eugene Federal
Building Saturday for a noon
"Stop the War" rally spon
sored by Eugeni’ I'eaceWorks
and the Nonviolent Activists
Network.
Led by the members of the
Oregon Country Fair Marching
band, marchers gathered with
those waiting at the Federal
Building to listen to music and
speakers representing Earth
First!, \V om y n ’ s Press.
I’eaceWorks and other organi
zations.
I’eaceWorks rally organizer
Frank Cardoza said health care
instead of warfare was the
theme behind Saturday’s rally,
"There’s a call throughout
the nation." Cardoza said.
"The theme today is bring the
troops hack alive and use the
money for health care, not war
We also wanted to get people
back at the federal building,
and have people focus on the
protest here. "
Will o w k j e I I b e r g .
PeaeeWorks rally organizer,
said the rally represented an ef
fort to bring together different
outlooks on how to achieve
peace and the war in (he Per
sian Culf
The rally was a real effort to
bring together "different view
points on how to ai hieve
peace,‘ she said
"We believe in non-violence
as a means to solving prob
lems." k jell berg said "War is
not an acceptable alternative
We're also Irving to give the
community a place to come to
gether for pear e and support
PeaceWorks volunteer Paul
Haueisen addressed the audi
ence first, telling listeners to
stay on their feet and protest
the war at home and and th
war abroad.
"It took one of the largest in
vasions and bombardment in
the world to get us to our feet
in protest," Haueisen said
"l.et us stay there. There is war
abroad and there is war in our
midst. Do you see the war
against women? Do you see the
war against the poor?
"This war in lrai| is wrong,"
he said "Free Kuwait? (live
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War pmtesters man.hed Saturday from the EMI' Courtyard to a rally at the Federal Huildiny
The rally was an effort to unite people with different opinions on how to achieve peace.
mi* a break' Kesist the creeping
fiis< isl state (let the U S out of
the Middle Hast now
Karth l-irst! activist Karen
Wood told listeners the search
for more oil is destroying the
wilderness and our dependen
cy on oil is killing the planet
and ourselves.
"They're getting ready to
drill for oil m our lust wilder
moss areas," Wood said "It's
extremely important to stop
them from destroying our wil
derness to suck a few more
years off oil.
"If we don't change the di
rection we're going in. we're
going to end up where we're
going Our president is an oil
mitt) The oil industn has more
influent e than tin1 alternative
energy sources.
To make real, lasting i hanges
people need to work together.
Wood said They can protest
the war in one way by not (lay
ing war taxes, whir h is the
"greatest form of civil of dis
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