Outside the Student Union on March 13, many witnessed the Campus Anti-War Network NEIU chapter looking for support for a larger anti-war rally that took place on March 19, at Federal Plaza in Chicago’s Loop.
The war in Iraq is in its fifth year and is still on the minds of Campus Anti-War Network members. Organization member Matt Larson said: “The Anti-War Movement is not calling a national demonstration, and we feel that in the absence of a national demonstration it’s important to get people involved in local protests. The only way we are going to stop the war is to build a movement at the grass-roots, independent of the political parties that both support the war.”
The Campus Anti-War Movement has taken this as an official stance to the war. “We were against the invasion to begin with, the U.S. Troops and U.S. Contractors need to completely withdraw from Iraq,” said Larson. The Campus Anti-War Movement is also against military recruitment on campus.