Ethiopians
Demonstrate in San Jose, Protesting the border demarcation:

On Friday October 3rd, 2003 Ethiopian living in and around the
San Francisco Bay area held public demonstration in San Mateo
in front of Representative Tom Lantos' District office, in down
town San Jose and at the Federal building. Young Rahel was among
the demonstrators chanting, No to the partition of Ethiopia, No
to the defunct colonial treaties and No to the Algiers Agreement,
etc. The demonstration began at 9:30 in the morning and ended
at 4 PM in the afternoon. The demonstrators carried many slogans.
Most of the women who came to the demonstration and some of the
men were dressed in Ethiopian traditional clothes. It was the
most colorful scenery to American observers who stopped to take
pictures and chat with the demonstrators.
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