'Crash' director to lead Hollywood anti-Iraq war protest

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'Crash' director to lead Hollywood anti-Iraq war protest

Mar 17 5:37 PM US/Eastern

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Paul Haggis, the Canadian director of " Crash " , this year's Oscar

winner for best picture, will lead a protest in Hollywood this weekend

against the war in Iraq, now three years old, organizers said.

 

Haggis will be joined by other celebrities and politicians in the

vanguard of the demonstration Saturday, which will assemble at noon at

the legendary intersection of Hollywood and Vine and march through the

heart of Tinseltown, the organizers said.

 

The Canadian director, whose gritty racial drama won three Oscars in

the March 5 Academy Awards ceremony, will be flanked by US actors

Martin Sheen and Maria Bello and singer and social activist Harry

Belafonte.

 

" This protest will commemorate the third anniversary of the criminal

US 'Shock and Awe' invasion of Iraq, in which more than 100,000 Iraqis

and 2,300 US troops have died, " said ANSWER Coalition-LA, the anti-war

umbrella organization organizing the protest.

 

Other notables expected to march are Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic,

the author of the book " Born on the Fourth of July, " which later

became an academy-award winning film; Gloria Romero, a state

Democratic senator; and Dolores Huerta, the co-founder of the United

Farm Workers of America.

 

The Hollywood rally is part of a wave of demonstrations Saturday -- in

Washington, San Francisco, Seattle and other cities around the world --

to protest the US-led invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003 to oust

dictator Saddam Hussein and uncover weapons of mass destruction, which

were never found.

 

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