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Rocky will lead local anti-war protest today
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Two Salt Lake City parks will become hot spots for an anti-war protest headlined by Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson this morning.

The No Business As Usual march and peace rally begins at Pioneer Park at 11:30 a.m. and will proceed eastbound along 400 South to end with a rally at Washington Square Park.

The protest comes in the wake of Anderson's speech at an impeachment rally in Washington, D.C., this weekend coinciding with the anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq.

Anderson, who has emerged as a national leader of the anti-war movement, urged a crowd of thousands to call for the immediate impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

"Patriotic Americans - those who, as Mark Twain said, love their country always and their government only when it deserves it - come to the aid of their country during the worst moral and constitutional crisis we have ever faced by calling for the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney," Anderson told the those who marched in protest from the National Mall to the Pentagon.

In addition to assailing the war in Iraq, Anderson attacked the administration for homefront scandals including the "warrantless wiretapping of American citizens," and criticized the "conveying of government propaganda by the complicit corporate media."

"As we say 'no' to the international and domestic outlaws in the White House," Anderson said, "we say 'yes' to the pursuit of peace, to the rule of law, to our constitution, to accountability, and to communicating to the rest of the world by impeachment that we are not the kind of nation that tolerates the violations of treaties, wars of aggression, and human rights abuses perpetrated by our vice president and president."

- Elizabeth Neff

SLC mayor spent the weekend at a rally in D.C. calling for the ouster of Bush
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