APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – At least 13 people in Appleton held a protest of their own regarding Iran.
The Fox Valley Peace Coalition held its monthly protest on Saturday.
The group has been meeting for 18 years, highlighting different topics each time.
Ronna Swift is a member of the coalition, and tells FOX 11 she’s especially worried about the possibility of war.
“It is very dangerous. This is going to cause an escalation, we don’t know where it’s going to hit. I travel over there. It concerns me, because I have friends over there. Who knows where it’s going to hit next, because they’re going to come back at us.”
The coalition was founded to protest the U.S.’s threatened invasion of Iraq.
The group holds vigils, rallies and educational meetings.
The protest is one of more than 70 planned protests across the country.
However, those were organized by CODEPINK and Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, a U.S.-based anti-war coalition, along with other groups.
Iran has vowed harsh retaliation after the U-S drone attack that took out a notorious Iranian general, raising fears of an all-out war, but it’s unclear how or when it might respond. Any retaliation was likely to come after three days of mourning declared in both Iran and Iraq.
President Trump says he ordered the strike, a high-risk decision that was made without consulting Congress or U.S. allies, to prevent a conflict.
U.S. officials say Soleimani was plotting a series of attacks that endangered American troops and officials, without providing evidence.
