On the road to Washington, D.C.
About half a dozen buses will head from Westchester and Rockland counties to the “bring the troops home now” rally scheduled for Saturday in Washington, D.C.
The peace and social justice action group WESPAC has two leaving from the Memorial United Methodist in White Plains. There’s another going from the South Presbyterian Church in Dobbs Ferry, organized by Concerned Families of Westchester. The Rockland County Peace and Justice group and the Fellowship of Reconciliation are also organizing buses.
Manhattanville College in Purchase is sending a contingent. Connie Hogarth, who has a Center for Social Action at Manhattanville named after her, said the mass antiwar march in Washington will show “the anger of the people over the fact that (President) Bush is not responding to the Nov. 7 mandate to bring the troops home now.”
Hogarth, an anti-war activist during the Vietnam era, said “the Iraq morass feels like deja vu. We can’t occupy another country and expect to put our own values on other people.”
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