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Charges Dropped Against Protesters
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Burlington, Vermont - The Chittenden County prosecutor's office has dropped charges against six protestors arrested Wednesday for trespassing at Congressman Peter Welch's Burlington office.
They were part of a group of about 30 anti war activists who occupied the entrance to the office to pressure Welch to vote against funding for the Iraq war. Welch is against the war, but remains undecided how he will vote on the funding bill.
But prosecutors said the incident did not rise to the point of criminal prosecution.
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Anti-war protesters arrested at Pelosi’s office
By Chris Good / The Hill
Four members of the anti-war group Code Pink were arrested outside the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Thursday afternoon, following an announcement that they would seek to take over the office.
The group’s members had planned to hold a symbolic “Pin the war on the Donkey” demonstration at Pelosi’s office to show their frustration with the Democratic leadership’s inaction on ending the war in Iraq.
However, Capitol Police prevented the taping of a drawn donkey to the wall.
Code Pink members were crying outside Pelosi’s office. When asked why, Rae Abileah, 24, said she was crying out of “outrage that this is all we can get from the Democrats,” referring to the Iraq supplemental funding bill, scheduled for a vote Friday.
“We’re just heartbroken that Nancy Pelosi has decided to keep funding George Bush’s war, and now the war belongs to the Democrats as well as the Republicans,” said Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin. “We thought we were going to get a change when they came into power.”
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Key Democrat Pressured to Cut War Funding
By Aaron Glantz / IPS
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 21 - Peace activists entered their 10th day camped outside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home Wednesday, the latest in an almost daily barrage of demonstrations, vigils and local government votes designed to convince Pelosi to refuse President George W. Bush's 100-billion-dollar war funding request.
The speaker says she will support the request with conditions.
Pelosi originally voted against the war four years ago and says she wants it to end. But that rhetoric is not enough for liberal San Franciscans, including elected officials like City Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, who spoke at a rally in front of her office Monday.
"I did not and will not accept the excuses of even the most pragmatic, prudent, or progressive sounding representative in Congress in explaining to us that this war abroad is such a quagmire that there is no reason no we can pull out," Mirkarimi told a crowd of hundreds.
"They should be unelected," he said. "They should be taken out of office."
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Police tell anti-war protesters to take down 'Camp Pelosi'
By Michael Cabanatuan / San Francisco Chronicle
(03-22) 21:32 PDT -- Anti-war protesters in their 11th day of a round-the-clock vigil in front of Rep. Nancy Pelosi's Pacific Heights home were ordered by San Francisco police Thursday night to remove protest signs, banners and canopies that adorned what they called Camp Pelosi.
But protesters vowed to stay put until today's House vote on funding the war in Iraq.
"We'll still sit here overnight and tomorrow until the vote,'' said Cynthia Papermaster, a member of Code Pink: Women for Peace, which organized the sit-in.
Since March 10, demonstrators numbering from four to 30 have occupied the street corner in front of Pelosi's house, urging her to fight against continued funding of the war. As the protest has continued, the number of signs, displays and tents making up Camp Pelosi have increased.
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CODEPINK and Voices for Creative Nonviolence is organizing the Occupation Project, a campaign aimed at the offices of Representatives and Senators who won't stop funding the war. The campaign began the first week of February, 2007, when Bush introduced the new Supplemental Spending Bill. The Occupation Project encourages ongoing visits, sit-ins, and of sustained nonviolent civil disobedience to put the pressure on our elected officials to support our troops and stop funding war!
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dontbuybushswar.org-Hillary Clinton Interruption 3/20
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Students Host Peace Demonstration On OCU Campus
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Oklahoma City -- The fourth anniversary of the United States' presence in Iraq is a hot topic in our country. A group of Oklahoma City University students aren't happy with how the government is handling the situation. Those students are doing something on campus that hasn't been done since the Vietnam War. They organized a protest.
They have signs in hand and a message in mind. OCU student and organizer Michael Slack told the group of protesters, "Mr Bush, we are tired of your politics and we are tired of your war."
Slack and other organizers put together the demonstration with a goal in mind.
"We want to communicate to our state senators and our state representatives that we are dissatisfied with the way that our administration is being run and the direction this war is going," says Slack.
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Fallen trooper didn't believe in war
Dreamed of military glory as kid growing up on D-M air base
By Carol Ann Alaimo / Arizona Daily Star
As a kid growing up on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Christopher Brevard dreamed of military glory. As an adult, he spent the last months of his life fighting a war he didn't believe in.
In e-mails to his family, the Army paratrooper, a father of two who considered himself a patriot, talked about what he saw as the futility of military operations in Iraq. He worried about the chronic exhaustion of the soldiers he led and felt U.S. troops were dying overseas for no good reason.
"He said, 'Mom, I would lay my life down in a heartbeat fighting for America. But if I lose my life over here, I will not feel like I died for my country," said the soldier's mother, Michele Brevard, 51.
On Friday, she received word that her 31-year-old son had been felled by a homemade bomb in Baghdad.
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Slain paratrooper treasured his daughters
Associated Press
WASILLA, Alaska -- A Fort Richardson paratrooper killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq treasured his two young daughters.
"His children were his life," Amber Brevard said Monday, shortly after the Army announced the death of her husband, Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Brevard, 31.
He was killed by a roadside bomb Friday in Baghdad. Gov. Sarah Palin ordered state flags be lowered to half staff next week in his honor.
Amber Brevard, 35, said her husband was a fun-loving man, an avid outdoorsman and an expert handyman who rebuilt two VW Beetles.
She described her husband as a daredevil who loved motorcycles, skydiving, four-wheeling and snowmobiling.
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'Six Days in Times Square' ...by Joan Wile
Granny Peace Brigade Holds Read-In of Names of War Dead
Joan Wile is the Founder-Director of Grandmothers Against the War and proud Granny Peace Brigade Jailbird Times Square 18
At dawn, Sunday, March 11, the Granny Peace Brigade and many supporters began reading the names of those killed in Iraq – the Americans, the journalists, the Iraqis and the other coalition forces -- in an historic event called the "Endless War Memorial." They did so from sunrise to sunset through the entire week as a lead-up to the fourth anniverary of the war, ending on Friday evening in a hail of rain, sleet and snow with wind blowing fiercely, a setting worthy of Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
Along the way, celebrities read, Iraq war veterans read, grieving Gold Star families read, and at times passers-by did so, also. Among the many notables who participated in the read-in were Oscar winner Susan Sarandon. She and Kathleen Chalfant, currently starring in “Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell,” read together, Susan reading the English-language names and Kathleen those in Arabic. Other actors currently performing on Broadway who read names of the dead were Liev Schreiber, the much-acclaimed star of “Talk Radio,” Mary Louise Wilson, star of “Grey Gardens” and Jefferson Mays, co-starring in “Journey's End.” It seemed particularly appropriate to have Mr. Mays read the names, given the nature of the wonderful play he acts in, which shows the true cost of war among soldiers in the trenches during World War I. Also reading were leading actors from former Broadway productions – the great Ruby Dee, the magnetic and brilliant Vinie Burrows.
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Mich. Congressman's Office Vandalized
Vandals Litter Michigan Congressman Mike Rogers' Office With Anti-War Sentiments
(AP) Vandals upset over the Iraq war defaced U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers' office overnight, a spokesman said Tuesday.
The unknown individuals splattered red paint on the Lansing building and put up a sign saying the Republican has "blood" on his hands. They also spray painted the sidewalk with the words "no more deaths," glued shut the front door of the building and destroyed security cameras, said Andy Keiser, Rogers' chief of staff.
Sheriff's deputies were providing extra security at the Brighton home where Rogers lives with his wife and two children, Keiser said.
"The aggressive destruction of federal property and vandalism was a callous attempt to intimidate Congressman Rogers and his staff," he said in a statement. "We all are entitled to our own opinion on the situation in Iraq, but we are not entitled to destruction of taxpayer property and intimidation of federal officials."
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Anti War March At Congressman Vern Ehlers House
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'Camp Casey Easter 2007' ...by Cindy Sheehan
From: Casey's Mom
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 6:43 PM
To: [Undisclosed Recipients]
Subject: 7.67 deaths per day for August.
Dear Friends
We can relax now. From the war zone of Crawford, Texas, George said that we families of loved ones that have been killed in Iraq can: "rest assured that your loved ones died for a noble cause."
I am going to be in Dallas this weekend for the VFP convention, and I don't care how far Crawford is from Dallas, I am going to that expletive deleted ranch. I will not leave until he explains to me exactly what the noble cause is. I hope some VFP's will join me in the crusade to Crawford. If they don't, I know my sister will, and we will go alone if we have to.
It has to stop. The time is now. I mean it.
Peace soon,
Cindy Sheehan
This is the email that I sent to a group of about 300 people the day that 14 Marines from a reserve unit in Ohio were killed. I was upset. I was heartbroken. I was frustrated, but most of all, I was angry!
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