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On their way to the big antiwar protest held in Washington on September 24, a group of college students began to chant.(The Week)(Brief Article)

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* On their way to the big antiwar protest held in Washington on September 24, a group of college students began to chant, "FROM PALESTINE TO NEW ORLEANS, NO MORE MONEY FOR THE WAR MACHINE!" Their message didn't really make much sense--were they actually opposed to the National Guard's rescue of stranded hurricane victims?--and it didn't relate directly to the war in Iraq, which was the ostensible subject of the rally. But no one seemed to care on a day when speakers raved about not only "Palestine" but Cuba and Haiti and Katrina and a laundry list of other causes. And, oh yes, the war. In the end, the rally wasn't so much ...

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