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SCHENECTADY
Peace group to protest U.S. spending
BY MICHAEL LAMENDOLA Gazette Reporter

    Schenectady County residents will spend $469 million for total defense spending this year, enough money for 9,059 public safety officers for one year, according to a local peace group that will protest the “misuse of federal dollars” on Thursday.
    Schenectady Neighbors for Peace will conduct its protest from 10-11:15 p.m. at the Albany General Mail Facility, 30 Old Karner Road, Albany.
    The hour of the protest is to coincide with people dropping off their tax returns on Tax Day, said Mark Klein, spokesman for Schenectady Neighbors for Peace.
    “Historically, that location is open to midnight; it is the place of last resort to file tax forms,” Klein said. “We will be there hoping to increase the education of people toward how U.S. funds are misspent,” he said.
    Klein said about 10 people are expected to attend the protest, coming from different chapters of Upper Hudson Peace Action. Upper Hudson Peace Action is a grass roots organization that works to end wars and prevent new wars through education and public witness, according to its Web site, http://peaceact.net.
    The organization seeks to abolish nuclear weapons and supports human rights, economic justice and international cooperation.
    Schenectady Neighbors for Peace conducts frequent vigils near the Schenectady Post Offi ce at Jay and Liberty streets. It meets on the fourth Monday of the month at 7 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church, 606 State St., Schenectady.
    Klein said the $469 million comes from the National Priorities Project Web site. The Web site breaks down federal spending by category and location.

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A "protest" by 10 nuts is newsworthy? This group is against any military action against Islamic terrorists. Those that refuse to learn history are doomed to repeat it. They should take the protest directly to the White House-lol-

You just have to love the drive by media ignoring 10,000 Tea Party demonstrators but go out of their way to cover 10 kooks protesting against the war. The liberal news papers and TV stations are wondering why their ratings are in the tank when they really don't cover the news honestly.

10,000 people where?  Albany or do you mean Boston or DC?  The very sad Sarah Palin of intellectual disability was the speaker--hang on she is clinging to her gun, her constitution and her religion.  Wow!!! Very impressive.  They caught that on the news.

Not Albany, Atlanta, Boston, DC, and a good turn out in Minn too. If given a choice I'd also choose the guns, religion, and the Constitution over the change that Obama is trying to do to the country. I don't care for the style of government that Europe has, or the enormous taxes that they pay, or the few freedoms that they have left.