May Day Protest in Grand Rapids calls for an End to the US/NATO war in Afghanistan

Earlier today, a small group of people gathered at the corner of Fulton and Division in downtown Grand Rapids to draw attention to the US/NATO war in Afghanistan.

The group handed out flyers to people passing by and held signs that called for an end to the more than a decade-long US/NATO occupation of Afghanistan that has escalated under the Obama administration.

Thos involved in organizing the protest were also inviting people to Chicago later this month to be part of a march against NATO that is expected to have several hundred thousand participants.

We interviewed one of the organizers, Tom Burke, and asked him about the relationship between May Day and the May 20^th action in Chicago, Obama’s continuation of the Bush wars and what people can expect if they go to Chicago for the NATO protest on May 20.