'No to war' protest

Several hundred people yesterday afternoon held a peaceful protest march from City Gate to the American Embassy in Floriana shouting slogans against US President George W. Bush and calling for a stop to the war in Iraq. Organised by the youth section...

Several hundred people yesterday afternoon held a peaceful protest march from City Gate to the American Embassy in Floriana shouting slogans against US President George W. Bush and calling for a stop to the war in Iraq.

Organised by the youth section of the General Workers Union, the protest was backed by Alternattiva Demokratika - the Green Party, the Peace Lab, Moviment Graffitti, Forum Zghazagh Laburisti and the youth movement Move, among others.

The protesters marched along St Anne Street up to the Lion fountain and turned back stopping in front of the US Embassy when most of the protesters sat down on the tarmac, chanting slogans in English and Arabic against the US President.

A good number of Arab nationals took part in the march. Leading the protesters were GWU secretary general Tony Zarb and other union officials, AD chairman Harry Vassallo and Peace Lab director Fr Dionysius Mintoff, OFM.

John Lennon's international hit Imagine and protest songs by Bob Dylan coming from the hi-fi system of a van accompanying the marchers backed the chants of the protesters.

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