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Veterans for Peace barred from Boston Paddy's Day Parade / Meanwhile in Ireland . . .

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Tuesday March 11, 2003 16:39author by Darby O'Gill

... the little people are awakening

A decision to bar an antiwar veterans group from marching Sunday in South Boston's annual St. Patrick's Day parade has politicians running for cover, as former servicemen face off over the pending war with Iraq. FULL TEXT AT LINK

Meanwhile in Ireland a group of activists have founded the 'St Patrick's Day War Resisters Committee' with the intention of encouraging the Irish and the Irish Diaspora to use the St Patrick's Day events all over the world as a platform for saying no to war.

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