© 2024 Milwaukee Public Media is a service of UW-Milwaukee's College of Letters & Science
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Anti-GOP protest part of big month for Milwaukee-area peace movement

Left: Committee member Farzad Ghodsi. Right: Committee member Sara Onitsuka is at right.
Courtesy of Milwaukee Antiwar Committee
Left: Committee member Farzad Ghodsi. Right: Committee member Sara Onitsuka is at right.

Peace activists joined a coalition of protest groups Wednesday night in downtown Milwaukee, demonstrating against the Republican National Committee presidential primary debate taking place at Fiserv Forum.

It's already been a busy month for peace protestors who are members of the Milwaukee Anti-War Committee. This week, Lake Effect heard from Farzad Ghodsi, who is working on an upcoming campaign to remove a Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) program from a Milwaukee high school. And Sara Onitsuka, who has a very personal connection to August ceremonies marking the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

_