Anti-war protesters with Code Pink demonstrate in Downtown Oakland on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020. (Contributed photo)

About 1,000 people packed four corners of an Oakland intersection recently to demand no war with Iran, said a member of the group CodePink, which says it promotes peace and human rights.

Many people gathered early ahead of the 5 p.m. scheduled start of the Jan. 9 rally at Grand and Lake Park avenues, outside the Grand Lake Theatre, CodePink member Susan Harman said.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.