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Anti-war demonstrator Cindy Sheehan, who earlier this month took her protest against the US military presence in Iraq to the outskirts of President George W. Bush's Texas ranch, said Wednesday that her peace campaign would again relocate to the US capital.
Sheehan said in a statement that she would move her roving protest back to Washington on September 5 from Crawford, Texas, and would expand it into a weeks-long demonstration against the war.
Her "Camp Democracy" protest action will be located between near the National Mall, the blocks-long expanse of lawn between the US Congress building and the White House, according to the group.
"The organizers' intention is to provide every American who is fed up with our current government a place to come and get involved in a movement for change," Sheehan's group said in a statement.
The statement added that in addition to protesting against the war, participants would rally for "justice here at home, for environmental sanity, and for accountability from the White House and Congress."
Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, camped near Bush's Prairie Chapel ranch in August 2005 while he was on summer holiday there, and protested near the site again this year after purchasing a five-acre plot near the president's Texas homestead.
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AFP 162250 GMT 08 06
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