Connecticut Post - March 20, 2008

TONY SPINELLI and PETER URBAN

A rainy, gloomy day just before the start of spring was the setting Wednesday for dozens of anti-war protesters around the state who marked the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq with pickets and vigils.

"We didn't want to have one single event in the state, so we had several of them around the state, and we'll continue this weekend," said John Murphy, a leader of Connecticut Opposes the War, a group he said has 50 member organizations.

Ex-Lamont Manager Coordinator Of Effort To Oppose Iraq War As Economic Disaster
By MARK PAZNIOKAS

Hartford Courant - March 18, 2008

The manager of anti-war candidate Ned Lamont's 2006 Senate campaign was named Monday as coordinator of a $20 million nationwide effort to oppose the war in Iraq as a continuing economic disaster.

Tom Swan is the manager of Iraq Campaign 2008, an effort to tie the war to an issue with a higher profile: the struggling U.S. economy.

"The public is already with us on this," Swan said in a telephone interview.

February 3, 2008

By Doug Dalena

Stamford Advocate - August 29, 2007

STAMFORD - U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., got an anti-war welcome to his new neighborhood yesterday, but he may not have been around to receive it.

Opponents of the war in Iraq, which the senior senator has supported, handed out leaflets in front of his recently purchased Strawberry Hill condominium yesterday afternoon, then gathered outside the Government Center to protest the war.

The Emergency Campaign for America’s Priorities (ECAP) is a nationwide campaign of national and grassroots organizations committed to reversing the Administration’s policy of drastic cuts to programs that primarily benefit the poor and middle class in order to finance tax cuts that benefit the wealthy and special interests. Our “First Things First” agenda is a plan to fully meet pressing human needs over five years and assure that all pay their fair share.

By Ray Hackett

Norwich Bulletin - May 23, 2007

NEW LONDON -- Dozens of anti-war groups, locally based and from across the Northeast, will rally today outside the U.S. Coast Guard Academy to protest President Bush's appearance at the academy's commencement.

There will also be a group of protesters protesting against the protesters.

by John Murphy

Norwich Bulletin - May 23, 2007

As a member of Connecticut Opposes the War and in solidarity with the Southeastern Connecticut Peace and Justice network and anti-war activists throughout Connecticut, we will gather today at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in New London. We will then engage in a silent march and vigil to send a singular message to President Bush: End the war in Iraq now.

The Iraq Veterans Memorial is an online war memorial that honors the members of the U.S. armed forces who have lost their lives serving in the Iraq War. The Memorial is a collection of video memories from family, friends, military colleagues, and co-workers of those that have fallen.

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