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U.S. | Anti-War

Audio:Anti-War Anti-McCain Protest Phoenix Arizona 3-19-08
by AZ Radio IMC
Thursday Mar 20th, 2008 4:16 PM
1 hour 13 minute Audio of the Protest in front of Sen McCains office in Phoenix Az during national day of Protest against,after 5 years,war in Iraq.Audio is of the speakers listed below

PROTEST WITH COMMUNITY LEADERS
ON THE ANIVERSARY OF THE MARCH 19, 2003
INVASION OF IRAQ,

AT THE OFFICE OF JOHN MCCAIN ,
THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WHO SAID
100 YEARS IN IRAQ "would be fine with me"

When: 4:30 p.m - 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Where: In front of Senator McCain's Office,5353 N. 16th Street.

(park in the nearby residential neighborhood.)
At 5 p.m. Wednesday March 19 community leaders will speak:
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At 5:00pm these community leaders will speak:
Charles Goyette - Daily talk show host at KFNX 1100 News and Talk. In 2004 he lost his Clear Channel KFYI program because of sharp criticism of the war.
Warren Stewart - Senior pastor at the First Institutional Baptist Church of Phoenix. Led the coalition which successfully campaigned for the Martin Luther King, Jr./Civil Rights Day in Arizona.
Eleanor Eisenberg - Recently retired Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona and long time community, peace and civil rights activist.
Deedra Abboud - Executive director of the Muslim American Society of Arizona Freedom Foundation. On January 18, 2008, awarded the Phoenix MLK Jr. “Living the Dream” award.
Antonio Bustamante - Immigrant rights attorney and civil rights advocate with Los Abogados, a Maricopa County Hispanic legal organization,
Alfredo Gutierrez - Arizona State Senator between 1976 and 1982 and current Radio Campesina talk show host.
Jeff Farias - Daily talk show host at progressive talk KPXH 1480.
Jarrett Maupin - Phoenix Union High School District Board member
Karen Johnson - Arizona State Senator
Dennis Stout - Viet Nam war army journalist who reported war crimes later described in the Pulitzer Prize winning series “Buried Secrets, Buried Truths.” Founder of Phoenix Veterans for Peace and current co-host at KPHX’ s weekly “About Face” talk show.
At 7:00pm there will be a candlelight vigil.

There will also be music by folk/political duo Dakota & the Black River Bandit, as well as by rock n’ funky blues musician Thomas Oliver.