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Stories from 2003-03-06

Students Skip Class for Peace (and Frisbee)

Leslie Eaton | New York Times | March 6, 2003

"More than a thousand high school and college students walked out of their classrooms and gathered in Union Square Park in Manhattan at noon yesterday to protest the possible war in Iraq. The protests were part of a nationwide effort that organizers said included as many as 400 campuses." [more]

The War Before the Day After

John Prados | TomPaine.com | March 6, 2003

"The real aim is to get rid of Saddam. A stated intention to put Iraqi leaders on trial for war crimes makes that goal crystal clear. No foreseeable Iraqi disarmament will satisfy the Bush administration." [more]

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This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.