Rally in Syracuse calls for end to Iraq war

By The Associated Press

Saturday, September 29, 2007 10:32 PM EDT

SYRACUSE - About 2,500 antiwar protesters marched through Syracuse on Saturday, calling for an end to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The rally began at 1 p.m. at the Everson Museum of Art.

It ended more than three hours later after a march of 1.6 miles to Walnut Park and another rally. Blocks of SU students joined the marchers as they came near the campus.

The rally was organized by the Syracuse Peace Council, Service Employees International Union 1199 and Syracuse University Student Peace Action Network.

John Burdick of the Syracuse Peace Council, an organizer, said groups came from New York and New England, with an estimated 2,500 to 3,000 in attendance.

“That number would make it one of the largest mobilizations since the Vietnam War,” he said.

An evening panel discussion at the university's Hendricks Chapel was to include Scott Ritter, a former U.S. Marine and United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998; Dr. Dahlia Wasfi, who spent her childhood in Iraq; and Jimmy Massey, a former Marine and founding member of Iraq Veterans Against the War.

AP-ES-09-29-07 1931EDT

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