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60 Arrested Near Capitol At 'No War No Warming' Protests
Sixty protesters were arrested Monday morning after some of them blocked an intersection near the Cannon House Office Building.
The protesters, wearing polar bear costumes and giant George W. Bush heads, blocked the intersection at New Jersey and Independence avenues, SE.
The protesters included representatives from the Oil for Change Coalition, Code Pink and Iraq Veterans Against the War. They held signs declaring, "No war, no warming."
Protester Laurie Arbeiter said the U.S. went into Iraq for oil.
"We're gluttonous and energy-greedy and we're taking such limited natural resources without concerns," she said.
Retired Army Col. Ann Wright said Congress needs to end the war now.
"When we have the president and the Congress not doing anything to limit our emissions, we are killing the earth and we are killing the people of Iraq," Wright said.
Two juveniles were among those arrested for unlawful assembly, Capitol Police spokeswoman Kimberly Schneider said.
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Show AllNice Demonstration.... The fact that it was not real big in size made more effective in my view.
Ive seen demonstrations with many times as many folks get ignored by the media.
At this point in time "less is more".
The Peace and Environmental movement is comming together now!
Gore has done a lot of good too.
Grateful thanks to these brave sixty.
For October 27: Bring extra compact Bush-Cheney masks and signs for interested passersby. Give a few to each participant to pass out. Don't concentrate them where they can all be easily taken away from you.
Sign suggestions: "Non-violent march" and "No to agent provocateurs".
Thanks to all the protesters. I've no doubt that sooner or later your ranks will swell.
Here's the first photo of the masks: Bush (not too good of a resemblance)
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/wl/031806antiwar/im:/071022/480/ab25f44e8c5141e0861ee150514e168b;_ylt=AkWgn_rKOJz4i1uN4Lrsf_xsaMYA
Thanks to the protesters!
Here's Bush in prison stripes. Likeness could stand a little improving before Saturday.
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/wl/031806antiwar/im:/071022/480/ab25f44e8c5141e0861ee150514e168b;_ylt=AkWgn_rKOJz4i1uN4Lrsf_xsaMYA
How come you never hear about any Pro-war protesters..Gathering of Eagles, etc..being arrested ? I've seen some pretty graphic pictures of them being abusive . I thought this was the land of equal opportunity!
1. I agree that the Dems haven't done all they can. And it is true they can't break a filibuster. We need to elect enough, probably 9 and 10 for sure next election. And for sure a Dem Prez no matter who. The Supreme court is on the verge and one more conservative on it can undo everything that is still intact. And that will last for another 20 years. I don't contend this is more important than lives being lost isn't the most pressing issue, but it is important to realize that one more wingnut judge and they will overturn not just Roe v. Wade, but Social security, medicare, most large social programs. Remember Social Security only survived by a 5 to 4 vote in the 30s despite a court that at that time was liberal. Think of the damage that could be done, millions of seniors in poverty, no healthcare for them. Medicaid, Schip. If you don't think that the right wingers won't push for all of this as they become more and more emboldened, you are wrong. If you listen to right wing talk, their overall objective is to totally overturn the new deal of FDR, the new society of the 60s and 70s of the war on poverty, medicare, etc.
The electorate in the last 7 years has made the Dems extremely gun shy and the constant lies from prez and repugnets do echo across the land and it is unfortunate that this still resonates in the red states. I live in Georgia and hear the wingnuts exicited that this can occur in our lifetime; Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Scalia are licking their chops for just one more wingnut Supreme court judge and we can begin. Justice Breyer, liberal is 87, Ginsberg, Stevens, and Souter in their 70s DANGER! DANGER! DANGER! Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas, just licking their chops for one more wingnut
We must support the Dems and nurse them along no matter what!!! Don't vote for any 3rd party candidates, don't sign any petitions to get other candidates on the ballot in any state. THIS COMING ELECTION IS THAT IMPORTANT.
REMEMBER DIVIDE US AND THEY WIN!!!!!!.
Good Job guys. I'm for Ron Paul
We must support the Dems and nurse them along no matter what!!! Don't vote for any 3rd party candidates, don't sign any petitions to get other candidates on the ballot in any state. THIS COMING ELECTION IS THAT IMPORTANT.
REMEMBER DIVIDE US AND THEY WIN!!!!!!.
I want what ever it is you have been smoking man! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! The Democriters are just the other wing of the Corporate War Party. Where the hell have you been for the past 40 years? Living in a cave somewhere? You are the one who needs to wake up. Have some coffee before you smoke an other one of those. Please!
WHATEVER YOU DO/WRITE IN, VOTE---PEOPLE DIED FOR IT. So we have a "choice": OPTION A) vote for anybody BUT the Dimocraps' main nominee, split up the vote, and bring on another GOP psycho who despises and subverts the U.S. Constitution; SO THAT the empire falls under its own obscene murderous world-raping weight. It has happened every time since men took over (a mere 4000 years ago, welcome to "history") and, if we keep on the way we're going, it's the most sure catastrophe (or series of them) that history could ask. "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out." OPTION B), Vote Dimocrap because it's the only (pardon the term) "real world" possibility of keeping the Constitution going until the GOP is completely discredited. (Believe me, the entire rest of the world sees what we're doing.) Seems that maybe The Left should be going full-bore and full-time against the DEMOCRATS: light a fire under them and make them the battering-ram, AS we replace them also over longer time (with voting still "allowed" at all)....LET'S FACE IT: The Dems have shown nothing but CONTEMPT FOR US THE PEOPLE, contempt for CONSTITUTION, and full-scale COWARDICE the rest of the time. Do you really think YOU could not do at least as good a job as John Kerry? A Vet of another failed war, he's done it for a career and has learned NOTHING---Surely we can get off our asses and do better? THERE'S NOBODY ELSE to get it done!
http://ancientgreece-earlyamerica.com
dkitching - " I live in Georgia and hear the wingnuts exicited that this can occur in our lifetime; Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Scalia are licking their chops for just one more wingnut Supreme court judge and we can begin."
I live in Georgia, too, and how - pray tell - did electing a Democrat like Zell Miller hinder the GOP in our state?
Georgia has its first Republican governor since Reconstruction, and the GOP controls BOTH state houses.
Likewise, how did electing a Democrat like Bill Clinton hinder the GOP nationally?
First, we wound up with a Republican Congress for 12 years, and now we have a Democratic Congress that supports George W. Bush and the GOP in almost everything.
Face it, red state Democrats like you are precisely what created the mess in this country. Too bad for you Americans are smarter now and aren't going to allow themselves to be *Carville-ized* again
THANK YOU PROTESTORS. I HOPE YOU DIDN'T GET HURT TOO BADLY.
I still can't believe my Vietnam generation has let this war continue on. Perhaps if we all were not able to blow off steam on our keyboards....we'd be doing what is needed to stop the war mongers.
Thank you. Wish I was there. I have relatives in DC area with whom I ordinarily stay who I believe occupy sensitive positions, ahem. Over the years, a sort of don't ask don't tell attitude has governed polite relations. It's the war, not the military, more particularly of late. You are saving America and I feel I'm being a sort of Wobbly "Dick" Cheney, viewing things from the safety of afar. Thank you all for doing this site.
Two juveniles were among those arrested for unlawful assembly, Capitol Police spokeswoman Kimberly Schneider said. This last sentence says everything. Our first amendment guarantees the right to assemble peacefully. yet people are being busted doing it. our "representatives" in government, whose first duty is to uphold the constitution and the bill of rights, aren't. Simple as that. Why you ask? Well, they have been bought out by our corporate brothers and sisters. You know, those folks who don't breathe, or have a heart beat, or worst of all, have a life expectancy, these brothers and sisters are running the show. doubt it, go to thomhartmann.com. Corporations are now considered human beings under our constitution and as such, have constitutional protections. Under the bill of rights, these corporate brothers and sisters have the right to create reality for the rest of us. They coax us with their advertisement. Drink the right beer, go the right restaurant, have the correct credit card, and you are a winner and you will succeed. It is the old myth invented by the early robber barons to justify their plunder of the natural world. And because they had money, they could disseminate their myth to their advantage and our disadvantage. Our meaning the four out of five of "us" who aren't being supported by the current government preoccupation with occupation and domination. Our meaning we the people who appear to currently be desensitized by a wealth of current materialism, which is currently being mortgaged to our children, and our children's children. In other words, certain people are being allowed to become rich and influential at the expense of future generations. This is not rocket science. It is grand larceny, extended to future generations. We have to first take our communities back. School boards, town councils, and finally all the way up to "our" congress and president. Corporations cannot own this process. Their first duty is to profit, not people. Simple as that. So, if you're one of the real brothers and sisters out there. You know, the ones that breathe, live and die. It is time to stand up to the fake citizens who are destroying our republic, our constitution and our democracy. Their power is coming from us, or we the people. Without our blessing, they disappear. Please join with others to make our corporate brothers and sisters subservient again to the will of the people. Support ron paul, dennis kucinich for president. Say no to fake leadership queens like hillary clinton.
NO WAR, NO WARMING!
Get rid of Bush, stop the wars, slash the military budget, sign onto Kyoto, cap carbon and methane, ban factory farming, tax meat, subsidize organic agriculture, protect the forests, raise fuel standards, increase efficiency and conservation, etc.
What's best for your personal health is what's best for public health, animal health, and environmental health.
Please visit Eco-Eating at www.brook.com/veg
and the word corporation doesn't even appear in the constitution. so much for strict construction and interpretation, eh?
Early to bed, early to rise - fight like hell and ORGANIZE!
Many blessings to the Brave Sixty who got arrested. Now what I want to know is where is the rest of the 300 million Americans, and why aren't they demonstrating also?
If 76% of Americans have negative approval ratings on Bush, why hasn't the son of a bitch been impeached?
If 70% of Americans want the war to end, why has it gone on nearly 5 friggin' years?
Because the vast majority of Americans are lazy, apathetic, disengaged and do not want to leave their "Comfort Zone". Cindy Sheehan was right - more Americans care who won American Ido than genocide in Iraq and melting polar ice caps.
IF I had $50,000 cash I would emigrate to Canada - but that is not an option. So here I stay because if good people do nothing, then we will be goosestepping off marching in unision to that Brave New World - or is it "New World Order" according to Bush, Sr.?
Trash reality TV has hypnotized and subjegated Americans into a somnuabullist complacency.
Unplug your TV and get politically active, America!
Keep Hope Alive!
Hmmm, arrested for protesting, thats what they used to do in the former Soviet Union, the Soviet Union the USA hated for just such assaults on free speech.
What are we becoming?
GLOBAL WARMING:
#1 International Security issue on Earth in 2007.
http://geocities.com/gwlinx
We have little choice but to keep pushing the fucking Dems for whatever we can get. To get the Dem candidates to address progressive issues. In the end, we'll either choose to get rid of the Repug administration and courts, or face further death and destruction into the future. We may have to hold our noses and vote for the bipartisanly hated Hillary, or get what dkitching said. I have to say that Repug divide and conquer tactics seem to be working. That's a product of paid shills here and elsewhere. Liberals can't fight dirty. That would make us conservatives.
Thanks to the 60.
We all need take some lessons from them.
It doesn't appear that the democraps or repugs are going to rescue the planet from the beast that they've created.
Peaceful Civil Disobedience seems to be in order.
Do those who express their support for Ron Paul on the one hand and rebell against our corporate/controlled/government,on the other, do they not realise that as a commited libertarian, Paul would get rid of even the semblance of controle we now have to limit the power of those corporations?????
Just say no....no to drugs or to wars. This guy is an addict. lock him up somewhere and through the key, Someone!!!
Since going after the dems is worthless, lets try to go after the republican, we might have better results!
The Chimp just asked for another $189 billion for his "wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan. He's probably gearing up to attack Iran with all the money he keeps requesting from the feeble Democrats.
Anyone see Bush sitting next to the Dalai Lama last week? That was quite a contrast: a man of war and a man of peace. Bush kept giggling like the maniac that he is. He should be locked up in a mental institution. He giggles even when he talks about World War 3 that he plans to start soon.
It's not just him, of course, it's Cheney, Rice, the neocons, Zionists, and the enabling Congressional Democrats, the other side of the one-party coin.
At least in France, when the Government is done, you get French Toast.
Likely view of America's Aristocrats:
Who do these protesters think they are? Citizens of a self-governing republic or some such nonsense?
Where would they get such a silly idea as that? We have purposely stopped teaching civics to the rabble, after all.
Don't they read the newspapers? Dont' they know our emper -- I mean our president - is under terrible stress? Why, not even our congress lords and ladies are being so -- how should I say it? Impolite?
Why has no one told these street tarts that their kind of behavior is NOT what cultivated people do? Can you imagine if MORE of this impoliteness goes on?
Why, the very thought of it is- is subversive.
The connection is irrefutable.
Oil. Greed. Profit. Ignorance. Apathy.
An excellent example of tying war to warming in the public conciencousness. Ask to each poster here: how can you duplicate this in your town? (Even flyers on telephone polls) Remeber, even Inaction is a Choice! Thanks to all those in Oil for Change Coalition, Code Pink and Iraq Veterans Against the War.
This is how protests should be held! Not the nice, polite permitted ones that take place on Saturdays! These get ignored and are seen as "under control" by the powers that be.
arrest bush chenney rummy gonzo and condomsleezy for crimes against humanity. throw their asses in jail for life.