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14th February 2004, 14:40
International day against war on Iraq. Partial list of events from the YCL USA (http://www.yclusa.org/article/articleview/1558/1/6/) site:

Anchorage
4:30 PM Protest at Halliburton Offices, 6900 Arctic Blvd.
Sponsored by Alaskans for Peace and Justice and Alaska Action Center
Contact: Kate, [email protected]

Boston
Protest at Parsons Corporation, 100 Summer Street, Time TBA
Sponsors: Massachusetts Peace Action, United for Justice with Peace
Contact: [email protected]

Cape Coral, Florida
Protest details TBA. Contact us to help with the organizing!
Sponsor: Collier County Anti-War Coalition
Conact: Ian Harvey, [email protected], (239) 595-1359

Charlotte
Protest details TBA. Contact us to help with the organizing!
Sponsor: Charlotte Fellowship of Reconciliation
Contact: David Dixon, [email protected]

Chicago
An informational picketline is being organized outside the corporate offices of a major anti-union corporation currently reaping big profits in Iraq at U.S. taxpayer expense. Details TBA.
Sponsor: Chicago Labor for Peace, Prosperity and Justice
Contact: [email protected]

Kansas City
4:30-5:30 Informational Picket At Black & Veatch, 8400 Ward Parkway
This engineering company has a contract to do work for the Army Corps of Engineers in Iraq.
6:30-8:30 Labor Teach-In at UMKC Administrative Center - Brookside Room, 5115 Oak
Presentations and discussion about the impact of the corporate invasion of Iraq on workers in both countries.
Sponsor: Kansas City Labor Against the War, http://kclabor.org/kcuslaw.htm
Others welcome to endorse and participate

Los Angeles
Protest details TBA. Contact CodePink to help with the organizing!
Contact: CodePink: Women for Peace, 202-393-5016, (310) 827-3046, [email protected]

New York City
12 Noon - 2 PM
Protest at Bechtel offices, 21 East 40th Street, Manhattan
Sponsors: CodePink: Women for Peace, War Resisters League
Contact: Nancy, [email protected]

Providence, RI
Protest details TBA. Contact us to help with the organizing!
Contact: Andrew Sawtelle, [email protected]

Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill
4 PM, Protest at RTI (Research Triangle Institute) HQ
3040 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, NC
Sponsor: Student Peace Action Network
Contact: Dante Strobino, [email protected]

San Francisco
Noon, Protest at Bechtel Corporate HQ
50 Beale Street (near Market), San Francisco
Join us for a lively, legal, nonviolent action against war profiteering and in support of labor rights for Iraqis.
Sponsors: AFSC, American Muslim Voice, CodePink, CorpWatch, Direct Action to Stop the War, Global Exchange, Global Women's Strike, Ronald Reagan Home for the Criminally Insane, United for Peace and Justice, US Labor Against War, and others.
Contact: [email protected] or (415) 575-5552.

Washington, DC
Protest details TBA. Contact CodePink to help with the organizing!
Contact: Gael, CodePink: Women for Peace, 202-393-5016,
[email protected]