
Four area women were arrested Tuesday to protest an Illinois senator for his implicit support of war funding.
The protest, part of a campaign of civil disobedience actions called
the Occupation Project were arrested at the Dirksen Federal Building in downtown Chicago on the morning of Tuesday, February 20. The arrestees protested against Illinois Senator
Richard Durbin (whose offices are in the building) for his refusal to vote against a Congressional
funding request for the ongoing war and occupation in Iraq.
The activists released a statement which read in part: "If Senator Durbin is against this war, he must stop funding it. We will stay in the lobby of the federal building until removed because we strongly believe that this war must end and that our elected representatives have the power to follow last November’s mandate to do so."
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Re: Four Chicago women arrested in war funding protest
06 Mar 2007
Re: Four Chicago women arrested in war funding protest
07 Mar 2007
You ain't seen nothing yet. Obama just accepted Torture Boy Daley's endorsement. Think Hillary is going to exploit that? No way! She's complicit too!
Looks like Obama is going to hire Bill Daley as his Campaign Manager. You know, the brother of Torture Boy, and the guy who talked Gore out of counting the votes in Florida in favor of covering for Jeb and company, and scapegoating Ralph Nader?
Lucky Lucky Chicago.. so much to live down, so little time.
Re: Four Chicago women arrested in war funding protest
14 Mar 2007
So, generally speaking, 'Right On!' to these protests. I especially liked the SDS kids in NYC going after the recruiters in NYC a few days ago, with a number of arrests ensuing.
But some aren't too nuanced in how they go about this, and like to use, even if they don't know it's origins, a favored tactic of the late 1920s-early 1930s 'third period' Comintern, ie, aim the main blow at the left and liberal 'conciliators' of 'the main social prop' (Bush's critics in Congress) of the imperialist enemy.
(You can read all about it in R Palme Dutt's 'Fascism and Social Revolution,' if you can find it.)
It didn't work too well back then (to say the least) in preventing Hitler's rise, but the American left was never too big on studying anything, let alone a bunch of old Comintern documents...
Re: Four Chicago women arrested in war funding protest
19 Mar 2007
Re: Four Chicago women arrested in war funding protest
23 Mar 2007
well it seems that the person in charge of censorship removed my post cyberguy.. that's why no one knows what the reference to "desperate voters".
i said something about how obama is going to round up the young desperate voters for the democratic party.. probably for hillary.. by playing on their goodness and rightness, and then betraying them to war hawks and torturers (kind of the way carl davidson and chris g. do it.. but on a world class scale)
i also said that axlerod, torture boy daley's chief media advisor, is now also the advisor to the obama compaign. now, the rest of the country does not know how horrifying that is.. but if we are honest with ourselves.. we certainly do, and if we had any self-respect and civic pride, we would warn the rest of the country pretty quick. i doubt that will happen, because ultimately, chicagoans are just pretty complacent, generally, as much as they hate when it is pointed out to them.
and you want me to tell you what these young impressionable voters should do.. well.. i do not getting into telling people what to do.. but i'll certainly tell them what i can, so that they can make a decision on their own.
so.. just do what you want.. but know what you're doing.. and don't get all freaked out when people tell you what you've done.. when you do something that is not the best thing you could have done.
Re: Four Chicago women arrested in war funding protest
24 Mar 2007