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From AP News Via MSNBC:
LOS ANGELES - Terminal operators say West Coast cargo traffic has come to a halt as port workers stage daylong anti-war protests.
Pacific Maritime Association spokesman Steve Getzug says thousands of dockworkers did not show up to work Thursday morning, leaving ships and truck drivers idle at ports from Long Beach to Seattle.
The West Coast ports are the nation’s principal gateway for cargo container traffic from the Far East.
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Via Rawstory:
Several thousand people rallied outside of the U.S. Embassy in the Ukraine, ahead of a visit by President George W. Bush.
One group in the crowd burned an effigy of Bush, shouting for him to leave and not pull the Ukraine into NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
A banner behind the protesters–many of whom carried the familiar red flag of the former Soviet Union–read, “Yankee Go Home!”
Bush was prepared to offer backing to Ukraine’s membership in NATO while on the official visit.
Russia warned NATO last week that further encroachment into its former Soviet neighbors such as Georgia and Ukraine was tantamount to “playing with fire.”
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By Taylor Atkins, The Capital-Journal
The Million Fag March, started by Chris Love, of Leavenworth, drew more than 400 demonstrators with signs, shirts, even pants touting messages of compassion and tolerance.
Homosexual, heterosexual and transgender pickets lined the corner of Gage Park. They hugged, danced and cheered as passersby honked their support.
“It’s about time we did something like this again,” said Hope Prescott, of Topeka, who waved a rainbow banner. “We feel somewhat responsible for the Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church. It’s about time we show our support for gays rights and all rights.”
Love said the idea for the march came after Westboro members picketed actor Heath Ledger’s stateside memorial service, but the theme for Sunday’s event encompassed more than funeral picketing.
“It’s not just about the Heath Ledger thing,” Love said. “We’re against everything that church does. The theory has been to ignore them, and they’ll go away. It’s been 20 years, and they’re still here. Now we are too.”
“I invited Westboro to come out and join us, but they didn’t come,” he said. More…
From The New York Times:
By JAMES GLANZ and STEVEN LEE MYERS
Published: March 28, 2008
BAGHDAD — American-trained Iraqi security forces failed for a third straight day to oust Shiite militias from the southern city of Basra on Thursday, even as President Bush hailed the operation as a sign of the growing strength of Iraq’s federal government. The fighting in Basra with the Mahdi Army, the armed wing of the political movement led by the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, set off clashes in cities throughout Iraq and major demonstrations in Sadr City, the huge Baghdad neighborhood that is Mr. Sadr’s base of power, and other Shiite neighborhoods in the capital.
Although Mr. Bush praised the Iraqi government for leading the fighting, it also appeared that the Iraqi government was pursuing its own agenda, calling the battles a fight against “criminal” elements but seeking to marginalize the Mahdi Army.
The Americans share the Iraqi government’s hostility toward what they call rogue elements of the Mahdi Army but will also be faced with the consequences if the battles erupt into more widespread unrest.
The violence underscored the fragile nature of the security improvements partly credited to the American troop increase that began last year. Officials have acknowledged that a cease-fire called by Mr. Sadr last August has contributed to the improvements. Should the cease-fire collapse entirely, those gains could be in serious jeopardy, making it far more difficult to begin bringing substantial numbers of American troops home.
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