#4 September 15 '07 antiwar die-in and arrests, DC

(4 of 4) Protesters surged onto the Capitol's south lawn and up the steps where they were met by a police line. (For high bandwidth, go to tompkinsagainstwarDOTorg.) There, Iraq veterans conducted a solemn ceremony to memorialize the U.S. soldiers and Iraqis killed in the war. Over 5,000 people then laid down in a symbolic "die-in" -- one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in recent years.

One hundred ninety-seven people, including dozens of veterans and activists, were arrested when they tried to deliver their anti-war message to Congress and were stopped by the police. Among the arrested were Adam Kokesh, Liam Madden, Jeff Millard, and Garrett Reppenhagen of Iraq Veterans Against the War; Brian Becker, National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism); Ann Wright, former U.S. Army Colonel; Michael Prysner, Iraq war veteran and ANSWER activist in Florida; union president Gloria La Riva; and Eugene Puryear, Howard University student and National Coordinator of Youth & Student ANSWER. Police pepper-sprayed demonstrators without provocation.

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• disobedeance
• Wahington
• Kokesh
• Madden
• Millard

[stonereflex]

That was awesome. "JOIN US JOIN US JOIN US"!!

I hope some of them do

[bigfathippo53]

Free Tibet!

[AnimalNatureFreak123]

hahaha no im too young

[futureshocker]

Did you protest on your birthday?

[AnimalNatureFreak123]

THAT WAS ON MY BIRTHDAY!