] Portland Mayor Vera Katz and Police Chief Mark Kroeker
] announced this morning that the recent anti-war protests
] have placed a heavy burden on city finances and law
] enforcement resources.
]
] According to Portland Police estimates, protests over the
] past week have cost the city between $100 %u2013 200
] thousand a day.
]
] "With these extended shifts and no vacation, no days off
] - 100 thousand to 200 thousand dollars a day," said Chief
] Kroeker.
]
] The protection may be coming from police, but the money
] will have to be coughed up by taxpayers.

Anti-war Protests A 'Financial Burden'

] As major media struggle over how gruesome and realistic
] war coverage should be, one alternative newssite has been
] shut down for posting "inappropriate graphic content."
]
] Late yesterday, Yellow Times was shut down by its hosting
] company following a controversy that began when the site
] ran photos of Iraqi and American war casualties.

Newssite shut down over war photos

] AMMAN, Jordan -- The first truck convoys of humanitarian
] relief reached Iraq on Wednesday from Kuwait and Jordan,
] while the U.S. Navy flew in two dolphins trained to hunt
] for mines to help clear the port of Umm Qasr.
]
] At sunrise, the relief agency Doctors Without Borders
] dispatched trucks carrying 10 tons of emergency medicine
] and surgical equipment from Amman bound for Baghdad, the
] start of what could become a lifeline to a war-damaged
] country where drinking-water supplies have been
] contaminated, medical stocks are dwindling, and food
] reserves are running low.

1st loads of aid supplies reach Iraq

] SYDNEY (Reuters) - School children have battled police in
] central Sydney in a passionate protest against the war on
] Iraq, hurling bottles, plastic chairs, fireworks and
] paint-filled eggs.
]
] At least 18 were arrested -- wrestled to the ground by
] riot police, manacled with plastic handcuffs and bundled
] into vans during the five-hour demonstration on Wednesday
] by about 2,000 students.
]
] A police spokeswoman said 11 faced unspecified charges
] and the others warnings. She did not know their ages but
] reporters said they saw children as young as 13 being
] detained.

Anti-war school children battle police

] AN ARTICLE by former National Security Council staffer
] Roger Morris in the New York Times recently described how
] Hussein came to power: in the aftermath of a
] CIA-engineered coup orchestrated exactly 40 years ago by
] then - president Kennedy, which brought Hussein's
] anti-communist Baath Party to power. Later, according to
] Urquhart, the US backed Hussein when he attacked Iran,
] gave him economic aid, helicopters, and licences for
] exports that were crucial to his development of chemical
] weapons (Rumsfeld is said to have personally delivered
] word of arrangements for these.) It looked away when he
] used those weapons against Iran (half-a-million people
] were killed in that US proxy war) and later, when he
] killed 200,000 Kurds with poison gas. "In return,"
] Urquhart writes, "Hussein paid off his US loans, gave
] [the US] a one-dollar-per-barrel discount on oil, reined
] in Iraq-based Palestinian groups, and even supported the
] Arab-Israeli peace process..."

Bush's war: the hidden agenda

] Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske yesterday told the
] city council that his department had been warned of
] disruptions downtown. He said the cost of staffing
] protests against the U.S.-led war has cost his department
] $1 million.

Seattle demonstration quiet; police costs put at $1 million

] Even though the majority of Americans support President
] George Bush's invasion of Iraq, peace activists reject
] claims that they are unpatriotic and vow to continue
] speaking out, no mater how unpopular it becomes.
]
] "If you are for peace, you speak for peace no matter
] what," says Rev. M. William Howard Jr., pastor of Bethany
] Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., and a member of the Jesse
] Jackson delegation that obtained the release of Navy Lt.
] Robert Goodman from Syria. "Some say when one speaks for
] peace as the troops are deployed shows that you have no
] regard for their lives. I think that is completely crazy.
] I feel especially inspired to speak out even more
] strongly against the war."
]
] Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit branch of
] the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
] People, says the war is about more than "shock and awe"
] bombing raids or capturing the capital of Iraq.

Peace Activists Refuse To Retreat Because Of Iraqi War

] Detroit, March 26: Sacred Heart Church on Seven Mile Road
] is the church Saddam Hussein built.
]
] In 1980, Reverend Jacob Yasso flew to Baghdad and met
] with Hussein, who wanted to help Iraqi Christians who had
] come to America. That year, Hussein sent $1.5 million to
] cover the church%u2019s debt and build a social hall and
] day-care centre.
]
] Last Friday, 450 parishioners gathered at Sacred Heart
] for a service.
]
] They prayed for Hussein%u2019s overthrow. They also
] prayed for a miracle %u2014 that loved ones who
] disappeared in Iraq during the dictator%u2019s reign
] would be found alive after the war. Father Yasso says
] more than half of the parish%u2019s 1,200 families have
] missing loved ones in Iraq.
]
] The 70-year-old Iraqi-born priest says he decided Hussein
] was %u2018%u2018evil%u2019%u2019 in the years following
] his meeting with the ruler, as newcomers to his church
] told their stories about the regime. %u2018%u2018I shook
] his hand in 1980,%u2019%u2019 he says. %u2018%u2018Now,
] he is the devil.%u2019%u2019

Church Saddam built prays for his ouster

] Protestors rally over history's most publicized war. The
] RU community shows that Oscar nominees are not the only
] people with an opinion.
]
] "Get this moron [George Bush] out of the White House,"
] urged Dr. Moira Baker, Friday afternoon at an RU activist
] sponsored anti-war rally.
]
] "Out, out, out!" chanted the crowd of anti-war protestors
] in response to her suggestion.
]
] The anti-war rally attracted a wide variety of people.
] All who attended were assembled in the name of peace to
] protest a war which most thought was unjustified and
] unfair.
]
] "I don't think it's justified at all," said Appalachia
] State alum Jen Mudjeska who happened to be in attendance.
] "There are a lot of civil rights violations going on
] around the world that are far worse than those taking
] place in Iraq, and for us to go and start against
] somebody that did not threaten us, did not threaten
] anybody is not a good reason to alienate allies."

Campus a mix of heated protest and community support

] LOS ANGELES (AP) - A college speech instructor who gave
] students extra credit for writing letters to President
] Bush opposing a war with Iraq has been placed on
] administrative leave and the president of the college
] said Tuesday he was sending a letter of apology to the
] White House.
]
] Louis Zellers, president of Citrus College in suburban
] Glendora, said adjunct speech professor Rosalyn Kahn
] offered her students extra credit for sending letters to
] Bush expressing anti-war views but said they would
] receive no extra credit if they wrote letters supporting
] a war with Iraq.
]
] "Students confirmed if they did not protest the war they
] would not get the extra credit. That's inappropriate and
] we're not going to tolerate it," Zellers said, adding
] that his letter to Bush would request that all letters
] received from Citrus College students be retracted.

Glendora college instructor placed on leave over anti-war letters