Help Spread Resistance to the Crimes of our Government!
What we need – what only we can do – is make a change in what people in this country will accept being done in our names. If people have gotten confused about whether the Iraq war is over, tell them, no – it’s becoming a permanent occupation! (read more) The We Are Not Your Soldiers tour is a concrete step to doing just this: changing what people in this country will accept.
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by Debra Sweet
There were thousands marching in DC yesterday. Read AP report. Watch the AP video. Watch the local video coverage:
You can read my speech here. After the march, several protesters were arrested in front of the White House, including Cindy Sheehan, Elaine Brower, and Matthis Chiroux. They are sitting in jail tonight and we are told they won’t be arraigned until Tuesday.
In San Francisco, Daniel Ellsberg spoke to a rally of thousands on the importance of protest:
Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the top-secret Pentagon Papers study of the Vietnam War and is the subject of the recent documentary film, "The Most Dangerous Man in America," likened the protest and others like it around the country Saturday to a day of demonstrations organized against the conflict in Vietnam in 1969.
"They thought it had no effect," he told the crowd in San Francisco, referring to the 1969 protesters. "They were wrong."
Ellsberg said President Richard Nixon was planning to escalate the war around that time, but held off.
In Los Angeles, thousands also marched, including a We Are Not Your Soldiers contingent carrying a banner signed by many more youth pledging to resist military recruiters.
You protested yesterday: now donate and make this resistance possible on another level for a new generation living in the crosshairs of the military recruiters.
