Protesters honor troops, urge withdrawal
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.
Activist To Lead Anti-War Campaign
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.
At Home, War Still A Frustration
Hartford Courant - September 4, 2007
By DAVID LIGHTMAN | Washington Bureau Chief
"John told us months ago that as long as Democrats were in the minority, we can't do anything. Go to the ballot box and vote us in," Flo Woodiel said last week.
"We did. We did everything John asked us to do."
Anti-war protesters show up at Lieberman's new digs
Aug. 29. 2007 - WTNH Channel 8
Stamford (AP) _ It wasn't exactly the welcome wagon, but Senator Joe Lieberman was greeted at his new neighborhood in Stamford.
Opponents to the Iraq war, which Lieberman has supported, distributed leaflets in front of his recently purchased condominium yesterday.
Protesters make their presence felt at new home of Lieberman
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.
1,000 protesters expected for Bush visit to New London
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.
Our protest will send message war must end
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.
Protesters March On Lieberman's House
New Haven Independent - April 2, 2007
by Allan Appel
Valda Jones and Rabbi Israel Stein joined 50 antiwar protesters outside U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman's downtown New Haven home to urge him to start saying "no" to George Bush's escalation of the war in Iraq. The interfaith Passover/ Easter vigil made the point with a new twist on the seasonal song, "Go Down Moses."
Anti-War Rallies Held Statewide
Westport News - February 28, 2007
By Will Rowlands
About a 100 people gathered Saturday afternoon at the Unitarian Church in Westport to discuss ways to take action against the war in Iraq.
The town meeting was sponsored by Connecticut Opposes the War (CTcow), MoveOn.org and CT Citizen Action Group, among others. Rev. Frank Hall of the Unitarian Church welcomed the group and said the meeting was part of an important and necessary process.
Rally calls for end to war
New Britain Herald - February 25, 2007
By Jeff Mill, Herald Press Staff
NEW BRITAIN - More than 80 people crowded into the Cooper Hall meeting room behind South Church Saturday afternoon to demand an immediate end to the Iraq war, and no to a war with Iran.
The meeting, organized by the local chapter of COW (Connecticut Opposes the War), was one of a series of similar meetings scheduled in cities and towns across the state, including Bristol and Middletown.
