Peace Rally in Columbus, March 18

If anyone has pictures or stories from a peace rally you attended over the weekend that you would like to share, I'd love to be able to post them here. E-mail pictures and/or a first-person account of your local event to howardempowered at gmail.com. Here's a link to the story in the Columbus Dispatch.

Beating drums made of pots and paint buckets, some protesters marched to the Statehouse in rhythm from Goodale Park, where they gathered with others before joining a crowd estimated at nearly 1,000 Downtown.
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Beth Lerman, of Dayton, held a flag as she stood with other members of Military Families Speak Out.

Lerman, whose son fought in the first Gulf War, said voicing her views and questioning the war is an exercise in democracy and freedom.

"That's what they are fighting for - to protect our freedom," said Lerman, who traveled to Crawford, Texas, last year and protested outside President Bush's home with activist Cindy Sheehan.

"It's our kids that are paying the price," Lerman said. "We are obligated to see they aren't misused and their trust not betrayed after they have laid down their lives for this country."

More about the rally, including photos by Mike Gruber, can be found here.



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