Maine demonstrates against the Iraq occupation in March for Truth
The people of Maine mounted an excellent peace march in Augusta on Saturday March 20, 2004. The event started at the state Capitol grounds, looped through town, and returned to the Capitol grounds. In Bangor, a short morning send-off rally began the travel of a large contingent from our area on the 85-mile journey to Augusta.

Here are pages with photos:

Deep Blade's photos from Augusta (10 images; about 700 kb)
March for Truth website.

Compared with the October 26, 2002 Augusta peace march against the then impending Iraq invasion, this was a smaller event. But it was still large enough to fill the streets.

Media happened, but only one outlet receives special commendation for excellent coverage, our local newspaper, the Bangor Daily News (BDN). Now, the BDN usually is a conservative paper. But take a look at these great stories and opeds they have published in the March 20-21 edition and the March 22 edition:

Peaceful Protest (published March 22, 2004)

Mainers' views on conflict in Iraq run gamut (published March 22, 2004, please see several other stories also available from this page)

Profiting from the war by Jim Vallette, now of Southwest Harbor, ME. He is the research director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network, and lead author of "Crude Vision: How Oil Interests Obscured U.S. Government Focus on Chemical Weapons Use by Saddam Hussein" (2003). (Oped published March 20, 2004)