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Americans Ramp Up Protests Against Syria Strike

06 September 2013 01:36 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. As the United States inches closer to military action against Syria, the anti-war movement around the country is gathering steam and going beyond the usual street protests to voice opposition to the use of force against Syria., APA reports quoting RIA Novosti

On Saturday, hundreds of protesters will be bussed in from cities up and down the east coast for a march from the White House to Capitol Hill in Washington, with many staying on for another rally on Monday, which is being organized by Syrian Americans opposed to US military intervention.

Anti-war activists in dozens of other US towns and cities are also organizing local street protests on Saturday, with rallies due to be held from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Youngstown, Ohio.

The ANSWER Coalition, one of the groups organizing these first nationwide protests against US plans to strike Syria, expects thousands to show up – much less than turned out for protests against the US invasion of Iraq in the early 2000s.

All of the protests against US strikes on Syria have been small so far, but noisy and creatively visual, like the one before the start of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday where an activist from the Code Pink protest group dressed in the movement’s vivid pink signature color, stood up in the hearing room, waved two signs in the air and shouted: “We cannot afford to have another war!”