SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- It was a marriage of two movements. Those opposed to the war in Iraq and those fed up with high gasoline prices.
The group Citizen Action was protesting at a Mobil gas station in Syracuse, claiming the ongoing war in Iraq has helped to throw the economy into a tailspin, hitting hardest in low income neighborhoods.
“The cost of the war is not only taking away from programs that are very vital to this neighborhood and people in general, but also, the gas prices, cost of milk, cost of bread. It's really just killing us,” said Tanika Jones of Citizen Action of New York.
It was a marriage of two movements. Those opposed to the war in Iraq and those fed up with high gasoline prices.
Jones says the first step in easing the cost crunch and freeing resources for key government programs is to end the war and bring troops home from Iraq.