{"id":25608,"date":"2023-03-23T13:32:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T20:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=25608"},"modified":"2023-03-23T14:02:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T21:02:06","slug":"marching-all-night-screaming-til-hoarse-protesting-the-iraq-invasion-20-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/marching-all-night-screaming-til-hoarse-protesting-the-iraq-invasion-20-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Marching all night, screaming \u2019til hoarse: protesting the Iraq Invasion 20 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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San Francisco Iraq Invasion protest photo from 2007 by Vadim Zaliva via Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Marching all night, screaming ’til hoarse: protesting the Iraq…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two decades back, we took to the streets to denounce Bush’s war\u2014that’s the only good thing to come out of the mess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By MARKE B.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MARCH 21, 2023 (48Hills.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I was writing my 2020 book Into the Streets: A Young Person\u2019s Visual History of Protest in the United States<\/a>,<\/em> I figured that once I got to the protests I myself was involved in, as a very loud and proud Gen Xer, things would be easy. Surely nothing could shock me about the terrible things I\u2019d seen perpetrated in the name of American hegemony after covering centuries of colonialism, genocide, oppression, and racism, no?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I was blown back by the emotions that came up as I dove into the the chapter on the Iraq Invasion\u2014launched on March 20, 2003\u2014one of the most cynical, not to mention evil and illegal, actions in a history fraught with them. Suddenly, I viscerally remembered feeling so helpless in the build up to it all, the suffocating cultural conditions that snuffed out all dissent as \u201cunpatriotic\u201d (ugh), the near-universal cheerleading which saw everyone from Britney Spears<\/a> to gay liberal Dan Savage<\/a> supporting the Bush administration\u2019s shady maneuverings. It\u2019s still something to be very, very upset about. Especially as there has been zero accountability <\/a>or personal consequences for those who orchestrated and preached it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those too young to have lived through what happened twenty years ago, a thread of self-styled left\/liberal types endorsing the invasion of Iraq pic.twitter.com\/GZIq6MpTQV<\/a><\/p>— Nicholas Guyatt (@NicholasGuyatt) March 20, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>