Officers Won't Let Protesters Cross Bridge; Traffic Snarled as 10 CodePink Members Are Arrested During Vigil for Slain GIs
https://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0102-54.htm
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Arrested on the Golden Gate bridge
Common Dreams
by Col. Ann Wright (USA, Ret.)
01/02/07
On New Year's Day, sixty peace activists organized by Codepink Women for Peace gathered on both sides of the Golden Gate Bridge to walk across one of America's great landmarks in vigil for the 3,000 US servicemen and women killed in Iraq and for the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have died since the US invasion and occupation. ... In October 2005, several of us were arrested in front of the White House when the US death toll hit 2,000. Now on January 1, 2006, we were arrested to commemorate 3,000 US deaths.It was ironic that I, as a retired US Army Colonel, was arrested on the Golden Gate Bridge in sight of the Presidio of San Francisco, a former US Army base. The Presidio was my first assignment in the Army almost forty years ago...
https://www.commondreams.org/views06/0102-50.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Codepink
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=3,000
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Arrested on the Golden Gate bridge
Common Dreams
by Col. Ann Wright (USA, Ret.)
01/02/07
On New Year's Day, sixty peace activists organized by Codepink Women for Peace gathered on both sides of the Golden Gate Bridge to walk across one of America's great landmarks in vigil for the 3,000 US servicemen and women killed in Iraq and for the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have died since the US invasion and occupation. ... In October 2005, several of us were arrested in front of the White House when the US death toll hit 2,000. Now on January 1, 2006, we were arrested to commemorate 3,000 US deaths.It was ironic that I, as a retired US Army Colonel, was arrested on the Golden Gate Bridge in sight of the Presidio of San Francisco, a former US Army base. The Presidio was my first assignment in the Army almost forty years ago...
https://www.commondreams.org/views06/0102-50.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Codepink
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=3,000
rudkla - 3. Jan, 11:03
