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Anti-War Activists 'Bring Noise' to D.C.
Liberals are making noise in Washington – left-wing activists will gather near the Capitol Tuesday night and bang pots and pans to drown out President Bush’s State of the Union address. Last week a group called "World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime" was denied a permit to gather on the Mall for security reasons. The group won a federal lawsuit and has been given permission to make noise while Bush speaks to a joint session of Congress. The group's Web site lists Gore Vidal as a member of its Advisory Board and has collected endorsements from left-leaning celebrities including Susan Sarandon, Jane Fonda, Harry Belafonte, Ed Asner and Sean Penn. But it's doubtful that any stars will attend the protest, according to the Washington Times. The site also urges visitors to "bring the noise and drown out Bush’s lies.”
Story Continues Below The activists plan to march to Pennsylvania Avenue on Saturday morning to take their demands to the White House. "Bush lied, Bush spied, Bush must step down" is the group's slogan. On Monday opponents of the Iraq war held an "impeachment forum" in a downtown Washington restaurant. Attending the luncheon were about 100 anti-war activists, many of them silver-haired veterans of the 1960s. Meanwhile, hundreds of College Republicans will hold a demonstration today in support of the president. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist plans to address a pro-Bush rally called "Finish the Job, Support the Troops."
"It's the new ‘generation gap’: young conservatives versus aging liberals,” the Times reports. At the anti-war luncheon, Bush-bashing "peace mom” Cindy Sheehan – just returned from a visit with Venezuela’s anti-American President Hugo Chavez – arrived 90 minutes late and signed books for her admirers. An amusing moment at the luncheon came when a gray-haired woman told longtime war protester Marcus Raskin that she remembered an op-ed article he wrote for the New York Times in 1974 advocating a military intervention to remove President Nixon from office. A confused Raskin replied: "I don’t think I wrote it. I’m not in favor of military coup d’etats.”
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