Video & Text Fwd: [Organzing Notes] 138 activists against war were arrested in the Washington DC on Dec. 16 미국 수도 워싱턴에서 활동가들이 전쟁 반대를 외치다 138 명 체포됨

* Video source: Bruce Gagnon's Organizing Notes, Dec. 18, 2010

* Image source: Bruce Gagnon's Organizing Notes, Dec. 17, 2010

* Image source: Bruce Gagnon's Organizing Notes, Dec. 17, 2010

* Image source: Organizing Notes, Dec. 18, 2010

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Organizing Notes
Saturday, December 18, 2010
THE HOPE MAN IN ACTION
(* [Video] Chris Hedges’s speech in the Washington D.C. on Dec. 18, 2010)

Organizing Notes
Saturday, December 18, 2010
HOLIDAY PARTY CONVERSATIONS

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See no evil, hear nothing but NPR, say Merry Xmas!

By Lisa Savage

Anyway, I was in a discussion about the weather for upcoming holiday travel with two people I have known for years. They were wondering if it was snowing in Washington DC that day and I said that it was because I had just seen a video of a snowy scene where "hundreds of people got arrested today for chaining themselves to the White House fence."

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I can't be sure about any of that, but I am pretty sure about this: any literate person with Internet acces who cannot identify Bradley Manning is in a willful state of ignorance.

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Organizing Notes
Saturday, December 18, 2010
WITHDRAW YOUR CONSENT FOR WAR

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Organizing Notes
Friday, December 17, 2010
WAITING ON THE PARK POLICE

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We were told over and over again today that their computers were down…… just imagine all that money paid to corporations to run these big government computer systems and they don’t work. But we never believed this one. They were just pushing us to pay the $100 fine as they kept telling us that if we would just hand over the money we could leave right away – they wouldn’t need the computer to process that transaction they said – yeah right!

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Former career CIA agent Ray McGovern was arrested with us yesterday. He had this to say about what he hoped to see come of the exercise in civil disobedience:

There's a saying that hope is the twin. Augustin said that hope has two daughters-- anger and courage. What we have seen in our [trying to stop the war] policy is a lot of anger.....but anger is not enough, you've got to have courage.

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Organizing Notes
Thursday, December 16, 2010
UP AGAINST THE FENCE

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The best speech of the day, at the rally that kicked off the event, was by award winning journalist Chris Hedges. He has often been criticized for his strong and direct analysis of the current situation in the U.S. (his book called "The Death of the Liberal Class" being one example) but today he challenged us using the word "hope" over and over again. He told us that civil resistance to the empire, at a time when reform is dead inside the halls of Washington DC, is the only way to create hope.

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We've got to increase our efforts to connect the dots between war spending and social collapse.

See two photo slideshows from the action here and here

Additional video coverage here

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Friday, December 17, 2010
Text Fwd: STOP THE WAR GRAVY TRAIN

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* Also from Stephanie Westbrook via USC4P&J mailing list on Dec. 18, 2010

'Action at the White House yesterday led by veterans as Obama, Gates e Clinton present their "strategy" for Afghanistan and Pakistan. 131 arrested, including Daniel Ellsberg, best known for leaking the Pentagon Papers during Vietnam. It was his 80th arrest for civil disobedience (and soon he will celebrate his 80th birthday). Photos: http://tinyurl.com/34kumsg Video: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/video/video_3684.html?1292533016 More on the web site: http://www.stopthesewars.org/'