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March to Defend Palestine & Lebanon ~ Downtown

9:26 AM PDT on August 18, 2006

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Photos by Cynthia Rojas

Last Saturday August 12th, an estimated 5,000 people took to downtown to voice their opposition to the recent bombardments of Lebanon and Palestine.

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