Franken Peace Arrests

A peaceful demonstration against funding the Afghan war in front of Senator Al Franken's St. Paul Office ended with the arrest of 6 protesters who refused to leave the Senator's office when it closed. They wore blood-stained shirts in honor of the dead in Afghanistan. About 40 people participated in the street demonstration. Twenty went to the office and participated in a conference call with the Senator while he was in a car returning from Duluth.
The arrested demonstrators were ticketed and released.

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News & Politics

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• Peace
• Afghanistan
• Afghan
• War
• Al
• Franken
• Funding
• Appropriations

[soundslikesouth1]

Very nice work Bill. Well put together....Its all about getting the story out to a wider viewing.

[RantingBill]

@soundslikesouth1 Thanks. Keep spreading the word, we need more voices. The thunder from the right is trying to drown out all reason.

[canarysong5]

To Franken and Klobuchar fundraisers: Stop funding members of congress who fund war! Fundraising for those who vote to fund war is being complicit. How many more Afghans and U.S. soldiers and Iraqis and Somalians have to die?; how many Iranians have to be threatened to preserve the sociopathic status quo of U.S. hegemony and imperial power?

[RantingBill]

@canarysong5 We have to find ways to get them to listen. Boycotting fundraisers is clearly one way. Both claim they have the support of citizenry in continuing the war, we have to prove them wrong? More voices, more noise, please.

[medeabenjamin]

Thank you, you wonderful peace activists, for putting the pressure on Franken. It's certainly a sad state of affairs when even the more progressive senators refuse to acknowledge what the public knows: There is no "winning" in Afghanistan or Iraq. Great job bringing the peace message to Franken's office!!!

[RantingBill]

@medeabenjamin Thanks. We keep on trying, I can't give up hope.

[nigelparry]

It's politicians like Senator Al Franken who underline the fact that all politicians are a waste of time. Obama is a waste of time. Whether we vote Republican or Democrat, Halliburton gets elected and war gets prioritized. Stupid country.

[MichaelCavlan]

Start running candidates AGAINST THEM. make sure those candidates are NOT Democrats or Republicans.

Then they will listen..

I was here and walked away discouraged. Just like so many peace demonstrations.Because the peace community refuses to deal with the undeniable reality that the Democrats are the war machine, just as much as the Republicans..

[zebra334]

good job