In a city where opposition to the Iraq war is routine, a U.S. Marine Corps recruiting station has been operating quietly in downtown Berkeley for nine months without even a peep from peace activists.The recruiting station, in a storefront at Shattuck and University avenues, opened in January to recruit young men and women from the northern half of the Bay Area to the Marine Corps officer training school in Quantico, Va.
But it wasn't until last week that the first protesters arrived. Code Pink and Grandmothers Against the War staged a peaceful, low-key rally outside the station and repeated the action Wednesday.
"We're going to be here every Wednesday. We need to protect our children," said Zanne Joi, a spokeswoman for the Code Pink activist group. "We don't want this in our city - we're horrified they've come to Berkeley."
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