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HIGHLAND PARK — In what has become a weekly event, a group of anti-war protesters held a special vigil Saturday at the corner of South Adelaide and Albany Street in the borough.
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The protest commemorated the U.S. military death toll in Iraq reaching 4,000, just days after the fifth anniversary of the war.
Those who gathered in the bitter, blustery cold were mostly members of the Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War, a group which has met at that corner each Saturday since April 2004. Their goal is to impress upon passersby the human and economic toll of the Iraq war, whether it's by carrying signs, reading names of those who have died in the conflict, or lining up rocks along the sidewalk, one for each American lost. The protesters, numbering about 18, including students from Rutgers Against the War, an on-campus group that collaborates with the coalition, later marched south on Albany Street toward New Brunswick. Organizers attributed the low turnout to the increased anti-war protests in the past couple of weeks. Dorothy Edwards, 63, a psychiatric nurse from Piscataway, said she was part of a coalition contingent that traveled to Washington, D.C. on March 19 to participate in the "Five Years Too Many" demonstration, while about 70 members stayed behind and held an evening vigil on the corner. The main thrust of the Washington, D.C. demonstration, Edwards said, was civil disobedience —— "to disrupt "business as usual.' |
