WASHINGTON – The overnight bus ride from Madison to the nation’s capital didn’t faze the 162 Wisconsin students and activists traveling to Saturday’s “March on Washington” peace rally on the National Mall.
“They climbed out like they had just gotten out of the shower. They were so refreshed, so excited,” said Ben Ratliffe, a University of Wisconsin graduate and intern at the Wisconsin Network for Peace & Justice, which is part of a nationwide coalition formed in 2002 in opposition to the Iraq war.
The three busloads of Wisconsin students joined with groups of grandmothers for peace, veterans for peace and even nerds for peace in an anti-war demonstration under a sunny sky in front of the nation’s Capitol.