California Students to Boycott Classes in Anti-war Protest

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California Students to Boycott Classes in Anti-war Protest

High school and college students in the western US state of California would walk out of classes Wednesday in a planned protest against a possible US war with Iraq, local media reported Tuesday.

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High school and college students in the western US state of California would walk out of classes Wednesday in a planned protest against a possible US war with Iraq, local media reported Tuesday.

In Los Angeles, the second largest US city and the largest in southern California, students from about 35 high schools and colleges would walk out of classes to join various anti-war rallies. The students would also stage a protest march proceeding from Westwood Federal Building to the Veteran Cemetery, said the organizer Not in Our Name.

In San Francisco, the largest city in northern California, students from about nine colleges and dozens of high schools were planning demonstrations at Oakland's Lake Merritt and in downtown San Francisco.

The planned walkouts in California schools are a part of a national anti-war campaign organized by Not in Our Name and dozens of peace groups across the United States. Students in New York and other cities will also walk out of class or attend anti-war rallies and vigils Wednesday.

In their National Moratorium to Stop the War on Iraq, the peace groups called for no school, no work and no business as usual on Wednesday to take resistance to the war to a new phase.

"This war will visit unspeakable terror and suffering on the people of Iraq, in the name of 'liberating' them. It will put people all over the planet at risk, in the name of protecting them," the peace groups said in their moratorium.

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