Albion students demand peaceful foreign policy for the future

March 26, 2004

Ross O’Hara, Canton sophomore and Peace Action co-president, said the Lansing protest was a wonderful experience. Around 300-400 people marched through the downtown, including 17 Albion College students and a professor.

People were “playing drums, chanting for peace, and drawing the ire of a few anti-protestors that joined the crowd,” O’Hara said.

There was a wide variety of singers and speakers at the protest, including Vietnam veterans and Veterans for Peace member Arny Stieber, who spoke at Albion for Memorial Day 2003.

“An interesting part of any protest is how many issues people bring to discuss,” O’Hara said. “Even though it was organized to be about the U.S. occupation of Iraq, people were passing out flyers and pamphlets about women’s rights, GLBT rights, Haiti, Afghanistan, and anything else under the sun.”