Anti-war protest outside White House
Friday, 4 December 2009
WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (AFP): A handful of anti-war protesters marched outside the White House Tuesday, carrying a coffin to symbolise the demise of health and education reforms sacrificed to a military escalation in Afghanistan.
Dressed in black, in mourning for the fallen US soldiers in the Afghan war, the dozen or so members of Code Pink, an anti-war group composed chiefly of women, staged a peaceful funeral march from the Treasury Department to the nearby White House.
Formed after the US invasion of Iraq in 2002, Code Pink is highly critical of the war escalation, believing that its cost of a million dollars per soldier per year will siphon tax dollars from domestic reforms.
Dressed in black, in mourning for the fallen US soldiers in the Afghan war, the dozen or so members of Code Pink, an anti-war group composed chiefly of women, staged a peaceful funeral march from the Treasury Department to the nearby White House.
Formed after the US invasion of Iraq in 2002, Code Pink is highly critical of the war escalation, believing that its cost of a million dollars per soldier per year will siphon tax dollars from domestic reforms.