The People Power Can End the War Collective called for a September 23rd demonstration. Over 200 youth, people of color, military families, and veterans rallied at the Chevron Gas Station at Telegraph and Grave Aves. in Oakland, then marched to the Armed Forces Recruiting Center on Broadway. The marchers re-decorated the Recruitment Center to declare it “Shut Down By People Power” and painted a graveyard in the street. Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | Report

Organizers said, "This action supports people power campaigns that are building to stop the Iraq war and occupation, and policies of empire behind it. If the government won’t listen to the people, we will stop the war ourselves by organizing campaigns to remove the pillars of support on which the war depends; troops, corporate profiteers and corporate media. We're working to uproot the system behind the war, to replace racism and poverty with economic and racial justice!"
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