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Year after year, citizens come across posters and flyers explaining details of upcoming protests. This poster is an invitation to the join a march to the White House to prevail upon the president to free the Cuban 5, who are jailed for espionage conspiracy.
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Supporters of American troops in Iraq gathered in Lafayette Park on April 9, 2007.
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Sonya Soloway, of School Without Walls, interviews Allen Shapiro, a Washington, D.C. resident. Shapiro frequents Lafayette Park in protest of wars, with his grandchildren’s future in mind.