March 19th was the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Many people protested. This is a report on plans for the protests from an 'independant media' news show. 'Independant media' or 'Un-embeded journalism' means that big companies or the government do not control the what is written or said. Most people who work for independant media are volunteers. What do you think of the protests that happened on March 19th?

JUAN GONZALEZ ( Democracy Now! reporter):  Saturday March 19th marks the second aniversary of the Iraq invasion. More then 725 anti-war protests and events are scheduled across the country to mark the aniversary.

AMY GOODMAN: ( Democracy Now! reporter) Yesterday, Yoruba Richen, one of our producers, spoke with organizers around the country to get a sense of what was happening in their communities.


FRIDA BERRIGAN: ( Protest organizer ) I'm Frida Berrigan. I'm with the War Resisters League, a local organization in Manhattan and Brooklyn. And we're organizing funeral processions to recruiting stations around the city. In Manhattan, we'll be meeting in the morning at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza and carrying coffins representing Iraqi and American victims of the war. We'll be carrying those coffins along 42nd Street to the Times Square recruiting station where some of our participants will commit civil disobedience and block the doors of the recruiting station. Simultaneously, actions will happen in Brooklyn on Flatbush Avenue and in the Bronx on Fordham Road. In both locations there are military recruiting stations, and activists will be carrying coffins and photographs of Iraqi and American victims of the war.

PHUNG VO: ( Protest organizer ) This is Phung Vo. I'm calling from Toledo, Ohio. On the anniversary of – the second anniversary of the Iraq war, the organization Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition is going to set up an event called Arlington Midwest at the University of Toledo, where we put over 1,500 tombstones with the names of the American fallen in Afghanistan and Iraq at the campus of University of Toledo.

LEE HUGHES: Hi. ( Protest organizer ) This is Lee Hughes. I'm from Act Now, which is in Australia in Cambra, and this Saturday, on March 19, we'll be protesting against, you know, the war in Iraq and reminding people that two years on from the invasion, Australians still oppose the war. We think that with 100,000 Iraqis dead, and the U.S. just moving further and further away from actually bringing democracy to Iraq, we should bring the troops home and, you know, we should let Iraqis rebuild their own country.

AMY GOODMAN: ( Democracy Now! reporter) Voices of dissent on this eve of the invasion of Iraq, the second anniversary of the invasion…………