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The January 27, 2007 anti-war protest was an
A black bloc, organized by Students for a Democratic Society, and advertised as a "radical youth bloc" on the DC Indymedia site, met at Dupont Circle to begin a feeder march to the main rally site on the
Anti-war protesters spray paint Capitol building.
January 28, 2007.
anti-war
An anti-war movement (also ''antiwar'') is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. The term anti-war can also refer to pa ...
march sponsored by United for Peace and Justice in Washington, D.C.
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The official event consisted of a rally and march at the United States Capitol.
At the protest, it was announced that at least 500,000 attended to the protest, according to aerial photography estimates. Associated Press
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, however, reported that the march drew "tens of thousands".
SDS feeder march
A black bloc, organized by Students for a Democratic Society, and advertised as a "radical youth bloc" on the DC Indymedia site, met at Dupont Circle to begin a feeder march to the main rally site on the National Mall
The National Mall is a Landscape architecture, landscaped park near the Downtown, Washington, D.C., downtown area of Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States. It contains and borders a number of museums of the Smithsonian Institut ...
. The march from Dupont Circle to the National Mall roughly followed Massachusetts Avenue Massachusetts Avenue may refer to:
* Massachusetts Avenue (metropolitan Boston), Massachusetts
** Massachusetts Avenue (MBTA Orange Line station), a subway station on the MBTA Orange Line
** Massachusetts Avenue (MBTA Silver Line station), a stati ...
NW to its intersection with 7th Street NW near the Washington Convention Center
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and the Penn Quarter prior to reaching the National Mall. The feeder march continued past the back of the mainstream rally on 7th Street, and onto Maryland Avenue SW, before briefly stopping at 3rd Street, at roughly the center line of the Mall.
Rush to the Capitol
United States Capitol Police
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stopped the SDS feeder march near the corner of 3rd and Maryland. As the march turned north, police blocked protesters who walked onto the Capitol lawn. Other protesters, both from the march and on the Mall, moved up in support. The Capitol police moved back to the Capitol building. Some participants in this group left graffiti on the Capitol grounds.''The Hill''Anti-war protesters spray paint Capitol building.
January 28, 2007.
March to recruitment center
In the late afternoon, approximately 30 demonstrators marched to the Armed Forces Recruiting Center on 14th Street. The window at the recruitment center and the window of aFox News
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van were smashed, and the demonstrators dispersed soon afterward.
Counter-protests
Acounter-protest
A counter-protest (also spelled counterprotest) is a protest action which takes place within the proximity of an ideologically opposite protest. The purposes of counter-protests can range from merely voicing opposition to the objective of the othe ...
, which was organized by Free Republic, drew approximately 30 people in the vicinity. Organizers of the counter-protest claimed that anti-war efforts hurt the U.S.-led war on terror
The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is an ongoing international Counterterrorism, counterterrorism military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks. The main targets of the campa ...
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See also
*List of protest marches on Washington, DC
The following is a list of rallies and protest marches in Washington, D.C., which shows the variety of expression of notable political views. Events at the National Mall are located somewhere between the United States Capitol and the Lincoln Me ...
* Protests against the Iraq War
Beginning in late 2002, and continuing after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, large-scale protests against the Iraq War were held in many cities worldwide, often coordinated to occur simultaneously around the world. After the biggest series of demon ...
References
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