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November 5, 2007: This website is an archive of the former website, traprockpeace.org, which was created 10 years ago by Charles Jenks. It became one of the most populace sites in the US, and an important resource on the antiwar movement, student activism, 'depleted' uranium and other topics. Jenks authored virtually all of its web pages and multimedia content (photographs, audio, video, and pdf files. As the author and registered owner of that site, his purpose here is to preserve an important slice of the history of the grassroots peace movement in the US over the past decade. He is maintaining this historical archive as a service to the greater peace movement, and to the many friends of Traprock Peace Center. Blogs have been consolidated and the calendar has been archived for security reasons; all other links remain the same, and virtually all blog content remains intact.

THIS SITE NO LONGER REFLECTS THE CURRENT AND ONGOING WORK OF TRAPROCK PEACE CENTER, which has reorganized its board and moved to Greenfield, Mass. To contact Traprock Peace Center, call 413-773-7427 or visit its site. Charles Jenks is posting new material to PeaceJournal.org, a multimedia blog and resource center.

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15,000 Rally and March for Peace in Boston on November 3, 2002

See Photo Album of Rally

 

Here a first AP report from
http://boston.com/dailynews/307/region/Tim_Robbins_joins_thousands_of:.shtml
(thanks to Martin Voelker for alerting folks to this report)

Tim Robbins joins thousands of anti-war protesters
By Bipasha Ray, Associated Press, 11/3/2002 16:47

BOSTON (AP) Actor Tim Robbins joined thousands of protesters from
across New England at the Boston Common on Sunday to urge the U.S.
government not to attack Iraq.

''It is important for everybody to ask questions before we rush into a hostile military situation,'' Robbins said who was in Boston for
the filming of the movie ''Mystic River.''

''We have been attacked and we have to find a way to allow our
government to fight terrorism. But we also have to have the
discipline and the responsibility to determine the difference between fighting terrorism and the danger and arrogance of unilateralism and
preemptive strikes,'' Robbins said to a cheering crowd.

Thousands of protestors Boston police estimated 15,000 held signs
saying ''Think Justice (not just us)'' and ''Make love, not war.''
Green Party gubernatorial candidate Jill Stein urged protesters to
vote Nov. 5 and choose the third party candidates who would ''get the big money out of politics which is what is driving us toward war today.''

''Instead of destroying homes, hospitals and schools with the
billions of dollars that this war would cost, we in Massachusetts
could be building homes, hospitals and schools with those billions of
dollars,'' she said.

Episcopal Bishop Tom Shaw and Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner also
spoke at the demonstration, which was followed by a march around the city's downtown.

''We have the technology, we have the money but we also have brains.
We are an evolved society,'' said Betsy Misch, 28, a social worker.

''We don't need to be attacking a country and resolving issues with
bombs. We should be resolving the conflict, the way we were taught in kindergarten, with open communication, with empathy.''

The rally was sponsored by United for Justice for Peace, a coalition
of 30 organizations including the American Friends Service Committee
and Massachusetts Peace Action.

Speakers included:

Howard Zinn, Historian, Newton
Tim Robbins, Director/Actor
Dr. Jill Stein, Lexington
Paul Camacho, Veteran, University of Mass, Boston
Randy Forsberg, Nuclear Disarmament Specialist
Bishop Thomas Shaw, Episcopal
City Counselor Chuck Turner, Community Organizer
Layla Cable, on insiders perspective of American war in Middle East
Sunny Miller, Traprock Peace Center, Deerfield
Rabbi Everett Gendler, Andover & Great Barrington

Photo credits: Howard Zinn, Tim Robbins and Sunny Miller- ©Charlie Jenks, 2002; Sister Claire (Leverett Peace Pagoda) and Jo Comerford (Western Mass/AFSC) ©Maia Duerr, 2002.

Page created November 13, 2002 by Charlie Jenks.