September 15, thousans of people were at Lafayette Park in Washington DC. The rally was organize by the ANSWER Organization, an Iraq Veterans Against the War. Many organizations were pushing for a week of direct action, rather than just a one day hoopla.
I didn’t hear about this until Saturaday, Budde called me and assumed I might there. They did a “die-in” surrouning the Capitol. It is obvious knowledge that people were arrested. When I was there in January we almost got the shit kicked out of us for dancing on the grass, an then forced across the street.
All in all, a reported 193 protestors were arrested, some of which were of the Iraq Veterans Against the War, which includes veterans, active duty soldiers, and families. There were even some Vietnam War veterans supposely arreste.
Earlier, a single line on Pennsylvania Avenue of “Gathering of Eagles” and Young Republicans, a majority of whom never served in Iraq, yelled “traitor” at the Iraq Veterans Against the War contingent heading the antiwar march. The Iraq War veterans chanted, “We Are the Troops! Bring us Home!,” while marching with flags printed with the names of big war contractors including Bechtel, Lockheed Martin, Blackwater and CACI.
I snagged this from the main Indymedia page, which has some vieos and photographs.
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