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More than 100 protesters bound for Washington rolled up their posters and donned their anti-war, anti-Bush pins as they boarded two charter buses in Chicago on Wednesday evening.
They were expected to arrive in the nation’s capital between 8 and 9 a.m. Thursday. Many planned to attend the Act Now to Stop War and End Terrorism rally on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Salome Phillmann, 24, of Chicago, said she took off from her job as a social worker to go to Washington and protest the war. “We are spending billions of dollars on lies for corporate interests,” she said.
Members of a pro-Bush organization called Protest Warrior stood near the buses with signs supporting him, including one that read: “Like it or not, he is your president.”
