Massive Anti-War March Says 'Troops Out Now'
The Political Beat
January 31, 2007
"Celebrities, elected officials:
Actor Jane Fonda, the leading celebrity activist during the Vietnam War, especially in the movement supporting GI resistance, rejoined the anti-war struggle after a 34-year absence from protests. She had been attacked mercilessly by the rightwing since that time. She told the audience she had not wanted to add notoriety to the movement, but that now, 'Silence is no longer an option.'
Actors Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon spoke, with Sarandon standing up for the veterans abandoned by the Bush administration after they've finished their tour in Iraq.
A small number of Democratic Party representatives in the House spoke or showed their faces, most demanding that their party's protest go beyond the 'symbolic.' Rep. John Conyers (Mich.) was there, also Jerry Nadler (N.Y.), who introduced a bill cutting off funding except to bring the troops home. Dennis Kucinich (Ohio) came out against any funding for the war.
Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.) raked Bush and Dick Cheney over the coals: '[Bush] says he is the decider. He's not. He's the liar.'..."
http://emergingminds.org/Massive-Anti-War-March-Says-Troops-Out-Now.html
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"Free Mumia rallies were held to cheering throngs across the United States and Europe. Among the luminaries convinced of Jamals innocence were: pro-Castro socialist actor Ed Asner; America-hating university professor Noam Chomsky; America-hating activist Ramsey Clark (affiliated with the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party); actress/antiwar activist Susan Sarandon; film critic Roger Ebert; actor/antiwar activist Mike Farrell; Marxist professor Howard Zinn; socialist writer Norman Mailer; Robert Meerepol (the son of Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg); America-hating filmmakers Michael Moore, Spike Lee, and Oliver Stone; longtime communist radical Angela Davis; and the late actor Ossie Davis. The city of Paris went so far as to make Jamal an honorary citizen."
http://newsrealblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/murderous-america-hating-thug-gets-his-due/