AP: Students protest against Bush in Austria ("Bush Go Home!")

Wednesday, June 21, 2006 · Last updated 3:28 a.m. PT

Students protest against Bush in Austria

By AUSTIN H.M. CHILDS
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

VIENNA, Austria -- Scores of students chanting "Bush Go Home!" marched
through Austria's capital Wednesday to protest a visit by President Bush
for the U.S.-European Union summit.

About 350 students gathered at the Westbahnhof train station and set off
on foot to a church square not far from the former imperial Hofburg Palace,
where Bush was meeting with top European Union officials. No violence was
reported.

Led by U.S. "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan - who lost her son in Iraq and energized
the anti-war movement last summer with her monthlong protest outside Bush's
Texas ranch - students waved black flags, blew whistles, banged on drums and
shouted, "Hey, ho, Bush has got to go!"

A larger demonstration expected to draw as many as 10,000 anti-Bush protesters
was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. Bush is unpopular in neutral, nonaligned
Austria, where recent polls suggest fewer than three in 10 people support him.