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| 2008-04-07 DEMONSTRATORS RALLY FOR A HEALTHIER PLANET
By Donald W. Meyers / Salt Lake Tribune
SALT LAKE CITY, UT and mdash; Some came to demand clean air. Others wanted U.S. troops brought home from Iraq. And some pressed the case for affordable health care.
Yet they all braved the chilly weather Saturday for the Rally for a Better Planet held on the City-County Building grounds in Salt Lake City - a three-pronged protest with the ultimate goal of social justice, organizers said.
"Today, the labor representative shakes hands with the feminist, the gay activist stands with the environmentalist and the Muslim makes friends with the Mormon," said Troy Williams, KRCL radio host and one of two emcees for the event.
Former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson also spoke to the crowd. He railed against the war in Iraq, national and Utah news media that he said was complicit in covering up the Bush administration's wrongdoing and apathetic voters who foster what he sees as a defective political system.
"We cannot have change if we continue to elect different people from the same two political parties," said Anderson, who served two terms as a Democrat. And, he said, the only way to achieve change is to stop blaming others and act for change.
One symbolic act for change was the presence of 350 bike riders, led by an electric car, riding from Pioneer Square to 400 East and back several times.
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