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On Monday, Jan. 29th, Congressional office
buildings were disrupted by dozens of anti-war protesters. At the House Rayburn office building, 70 women
marched into the courtyard and began reading names of American soldiers and
Iraqi people killed in the war while placing yellow flowers on the ground. 9 protesters were subsequently arrested.
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At the same time in the Hart Senate office building, about
100 protesters took over the atrium, carrying children’s shoes to represent
Iraqi children killed in the war, and hanging banners from the balconies. After many Senate staffers (but no Senators) came
out to give thumbs up, the protesters were soon forced to leave by the police.
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Then on Tuesday, Jan. 30th, 6 protesters were arrested at Hillary Clinton’s office when they showed up with banners asking Hillary Clinton to be a “Woman for Peace”.
Code Pink organized the protests, and Medea Benjamin,
one of Code Pink’s co-founders, told the Associated Press, “We feel the
American people don’t know how many Iraqis have been killed because of the
American invasion”.
These protests were a welcome disruption to the everyday activities
of a Congress that still refuses to do anything meaningful to actually end the
war, and represent the sentiments of millions of people across the country.
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