SEATTLE (AP) — Students from area universities, colleges and high schools rallied Monday outside a military recruiting station downtown, pounding on windows and demanding an end to U.S. operations in Iraq.
Protests also were staged outside recruiting stations north of Seattle and in the University District next to the University of Washington. Students called for an end to military recruitment in schools and said money spent on the war should be used to better fund all levels of public education.
The demonstrations downtown and in the University District each attracted three or four dozen protesters. There were no arrests.
“The youth of this city and the youth of this country are standing up against this war,” Federico Martinez, 23, a student at Evergreen State College in Olympia, said after the protests. “We want education to be the funding priority of the United States government, not the occupation of a sovereign nation.” <snip>
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