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They can dance if they want to: Droves of dancing students swarmed the streets of Washington on Wednesday to protest eight
years of U.S. occupation in Afghanistan.

Marking the eighth anniversary of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, more than 100 college and high school students went on a “Funk the War” dance protest through the financial district in Washington on Wednesday. Hosted by the local chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, the dancers shimmied past a handful of buildings they considered threats to the peace movement, among them an Army recruiting station and Clear Channel’s office.