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Fed up with ongoing wars depleting innocent lives and the U.S. Treasury, more than a thousand women marched on the Pentagon on Sunday to declare their opposition to the continuing slaughter.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

By Joe Lauria<\/strong> <\/span>
Special to Consortium News<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

About 1,500 women and allied men marched on the Pentagon on Sunday to demand an end to perpetual war and the funding of education, health care and other social needs instead. <\/span><\/p>\n

Stopping U.S. military involvement in Syria and Yemen and closing U.S. military bases around the world were among the demands voiced by the protestors who set out from Pentagon City and marched to the seat of American military power along a one-mile route.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the Pentagon in the background, the protestors shouted slogans and waved signs calling for, \u201cNo More War.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Walter Teague, an activist, spoke of taking part in the mass protest<\/a>\u00a0of 35,000 people against the Vietnam War that converged on the Pentagon building on October 21, 1967. That was 51 years ago to the day of Sunday\u2019s women\u2019s march, which took place after five more decades of American wars.\u00a0 In 1967 one could walk right up to the Pentagon\u2019s front door, unlike now when the building is fenced off on all sides, hundreds of yards from the public.<\/span><\/p>\n

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