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Wed 04 Apr 2003School students launch anti-war group
Chanting slogans against "Bush and Bertie" with equal vigour, a group of teenagers launched a new wing of the anti-war movement in Dublin yesterday.
School Students Against War, which claims to have up to 500 members from 40 Dublin schools, was inaugurated at a press conference close to the Dáil. "Fifty per cent of people in Iraq are our age or younger, and we have to speak up for them," said Gavin Keaveney, a transition year student at St Benildus, Kilmacud.
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