ANTI-WAR RALLY DOWNTOWN DRAWS HUNDREDS IN SUPPORT.An emerging anti-war movement in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. held its second vigil Thursday evening in Pershing Square in downtown, drawing 300 to 400 people. Men in Aztec dress pounded on drums and women in colorful headdresses danced as protesters held up signs to passing motorists, many of whom honked apparently in support and some yelled indecipherable jeers jeer v. jeered, jeer·ing, jeers v.intr. To speak or shout derisively; mock. v.tr. To abuse vocally; taunt: jeered the speaker off the stage. out their windows. Protesters played flutes, held up rainbow flags with peace symbols and signs that read, ``An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind - Gandhi'' and ``The death of more innocents will not make us safe.'' Sally Marr, an organizer for newly emerged Coalition for World Peace said the vigil is the second one the group has held since the first one Sunday at Griffith Park Griffith Park is a large public park at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains. It is situated in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The park covers 4,210 acres (17 km²) of land, making it one of the largest urban parks in North America. which attracted about 300 people. ``We are forming it to counterbalance the retaliatory and militaristic mil·i·ta·rism n. 1. Glorification of the ideals of a professional military class. 2. Predominance of the armed forces in the administration or policy of the state. 3. attitudes in the country, and we are trying to resolve this in a peaceful way,'' she said. ``It's the beginning of an anti-war movement. ``This is not going to be like any war we've ever known. We are trying to stop this before it starts.'' East Los Angeles East Los Angeles, uninc. city (1990 pop. 126,379), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, in an industrial area. It has a large Mexican-American population. There is a performing arts center and a cultural center. A junior college is there. resident Rudy Pisani, 71, a Korean War Korean War, conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. At the end of World War II, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel into Soviet (North Korean) and U.S. (South Korean) zones of occupation. veteran, said the U.S. foreign policy has caused enormous suffering in war-torn Afghanistan and throughout the world. ``Now they have turned against the USA because the USA has always bombed Muslim nations,'' Pisani said. ``People live in caves there. What are we going to bomb? My heart goes out to the innocent people in Washington, D.C., and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of who died. But violence will not solve this.'' North Hollywood resident Pawel Chmielewski, 47, said he opposes all wars because many civilians are killed. ``We need to normalize normalize to convert a set of data by, for example, converting them to logarithms or reciprocals so that their previous non-normal distribution is converted to a normal one. our relations with Iraq and end sanctions against the Palestinians,'' he said. ``This is the reason for the terrorist attack. This has nothing to do with the Muslim religion. They are just fighting back.'' Marr said the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. needs to ask why its foreign policies have sparked such hatred. ``The country has been practically leveled to the ground already by what the Russians did. There are 30 million land mines the Russians dug into the ground and dropped from airplanes there. If we send in ground forces from America, can you imagine how many people are going to come back without their limbs?'' Organizers said they plan to hold another rally at noon Saturday at the Federal Building in Westwood, and another one a week later at the same location. Sister Elizabeth Prus, 91, of the Catholic Sisters of Social Services said war is useless. ``We are coming down to the level of the people we abhor,'' she said. ``We are not here to do vengeance.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Protesters hold up signs to passing motorists during an anti-war vigil Thursday at Pershing Square in downtown. Another rally was planned Saturday at the Federal Building in Westwood. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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