Sophie Harkat speaks to hundreds of anti-war protesters in Ottawa on Parliament Hill. This photo courtesy of YayaCanada. Visit Yayacanada.com for many more photos of the rally.
To beating drums and chanting voices, about 300 anti-war protesters marched through Ottawa yesterday, calling for an end of the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
The rally was one of many protests around the world on the third anniversary of the invasion.
Protesters moved down Sussex Dr. from the National Gallery to the U.S. Embassy, chanting "Health care. Child care. Anything but warfare!"
"It's about peace and about countries not going out aggressively and trying to subdue and dominate the world," said Jo Wood, a member of the anti-war group Nowar-Paix.
The rally featured a cross-section of protesters, from young students, to seniors, to families and singles, and a diverse ethnic spectrum, all calling on the U.S. to pull out of the war-ravaged country, while asking the Canadian government to support war resisters from the U.S.
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