A Nation Divided, as more people demand peace, the tide begins to turn.

Local governments and unions side with peace.

At the protest after the "state of the union" in front of the federal building, there were hundres of people. We could have easily shut down that intersection. There were only a handful of cops on bikes & a couple of patrol cars hiding behind some bushes.

When ever i'm at a demonstration where there is traffic present, like Hollywood & Highland not too long ago, the first thing i think is: Shut It Down! By staging Die-Ins, with the help of the friendly folks at NION, we did it. We had 2 Die-Ins in the street and managed to block traffic momentarily with only minor scolding from a couple of working class oppressors.

Back to the Wilshire Fed Bldg the other day; though there were not as many people as there were at Hollywood & Highland, there was one quite elderly woman who was on my wave length. We were all crossing the streets, when legal, chanting, and carrying on, but she was walking a little slower than the rest of them, and slower than me, which is what caught my attention. Finally she simply stood still in the street until she was breaking the law. This being the most beautiful thing i had seen in a while, i squeezed through the crowd and joined her. As she slowly made her way to the curb, 2 bike cops confronted me. they asked me if i knew what i was doing was illegal, I implored if they knew that a war on Iraq would be illegal. They looked as if they'd been had, then they kindly asked me not to break the law in front of them. Finally, they asked me to get out of the street, to follow them to the curb. By that time i was no longer breaking the law, the light had changed. I turned around and walked away from the cops, toward my fellow protesters, and was congradulated. Though her & I had only stopped 2 seperate directions of traffic, we had won. This happened by chance, because of 2 strangers with a common cause. Imagine what we could do with a bit of organized civil-disobedience.

12/14/02 Intersection Hollywood and Highland
Five second lay downs.

check out this link or scroll down the IMC center column for the full Hollywood / Highland story.

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/23977.php

Hope everyone can make it to the upcoming Hollywood action.

peace

error

If you used your eyes to view the pictures from Holywood/Highland, you'd notice that we were holding civil disobedience in the STREET, not on the sidewalk.

More specifically: we were performing street theater with the outcome of raising public awareness to the reality & brutality of war.

This public awarness campaigne was/is aimed at people within the activist community, those who could care less, & at you, random Bush admirer, who oppose our protest of US imperial militarization and war.

For further reading on the subject of US imperial militarization and war, look to any media outlet you like. But read with scrutiny ,and use your own moral judgement not partsan politics or self-interest to address the issue. Remember that you are worth no more or less than anyone else here on Earth.

Also, you calling us dumb only strengthens my point that civil disobedience is effective. We are simply the opposite of dumb, vehemently vocal.
Our voices are being heard loudly enough for you to be offended and clearly enough for you to be threatened.

Act responsibly, join the civil disobedience, raise your voice, your fist, and the quality of life for all.

Laying down in the street vs. laying down on the sidewalk --- even dumber than I tought.

--> Our voices are being heard loudly enough for you to be offended and clearly enough for you to be threatened.

That's rich. I'm hardly offended or threatened by the actions of street rabble. It's free entertainment -- slapstick comedy of the cheech and chong genre.

good to get a laugh.
Civil Disobedience is also occasionaly effective!

I suppose the Bush Admirer thinks then that death from above is funny.

To be in good humor is to be in good health.
It is healthy to laugh. It is also healthy to have safe sex and eat raw vegetables. Bombing a metropolitan city is not healthy. There will be instant death, long-term illnesses, psychological & environmental damage.

For us in the States, that equates to a disparity in socail benefits. Benefits that the citizens of non-aggressive governments reap in full.

We demonstrate in this way to represent all victims of war, their loss, and the struggle to end attacks of this nature.

The Shrub's official IMC spokesperson has been somewhat successful in steering the current conversation away from civil disobedience and direct action. It will be imposible, however, for him or anyone to ignore or stop the movement.

Soft, plyable and made from protiens solidified from dead animals, Jello comes to you to make a comment on the apparent anti-America/Anti-administration/ anti-logic stupidity running rampant here. Though I expect this to go no further than my comment, with a follow up from someone calling me a Bush Admirer, let me tell you, I don't find being called an admirer of someone who puts America first and the spread of freedom and hope of freedom from oppression, with true heart-felt compassion, someone who moves on wisdom and not 'what ifs' .. something to actually feel offended, or feel insulted about. So don't waste your time typing that, I know that I admire Bush on his stand with this war and all that it is for.

Now! for my piece here in this tripe infested hole of the internet I just stepped into. Saddam Hussien = killer of his own people and others. Saddam Hussien = hater of America and all good that it is for. Saddam Hussien, responsible for all deaths placed upon his own people, while he built his palaces to hide all his neato military toys. (which are no doubt out on the desert, loaded with those weapons the inspectors had to play CLUE with, that Blix ignored even bothering to go to *I.E. inspectors never visited the Iraqi military out on the field)Saddam, a monster and blight on the middle East, who would have killed your lefty god Clinton ( and if you didn't like Clinton good for you, then again are you for Communism? Clinton was more a socialist, but eh ), through the UN was supposed to disarm, ( he hasn't, orders to use biological and chemical weapons, so recently, proves that) I take it, to those who are so hatefull of Bush and anti-Military/Anti- reasonable war.. Saddam is a pretty good guy. Ok, so I shall have to reason out what this sites main group of typoing idiots who have no ability to spell beyond 2nd grade tripe, that Saddam is actually a person to look up for you all. How about this, you guys go over, be human sheilds, get big white sheets, paint NO WAR ON THEM and place them where you are, you'll do America a favor, because where the bombs are going to be hitting, that's where those idiot human sheilds will be.. because Saddam, will place you there.

You know the opposition is weak when their material comes from 3 years ago. (BUSH IS SO DUMB!)

Kids, go play in traffic, prefferably when it's moving at 75, just run back and forth and back and forth like frogger, till you feel you've lost enough American lives to make up for the lives Saddam takes daily, take your pictures, call it a die in and stage a sit in, on your couch with the TV on CNN and scream at the top of your lungs every time you hear the words.. "America continues to march upon Iraq as starving soldiers surrender and citizens greet them, dancing in the streets.

Remember what you thick skulls thought about Afghanistan, and what happened.

Jello

This public awarness campaigne was/is aimed at people within the activist community, those who could care less, & at you, random Bush admirer, who oppose our protest of US imperial militarization and war.

I guess the only imperial militarization and war that's ok now adays is that which goes on under the Iraqi regime huh peacenick?

Anti-war protesters are complete idiots! Thats right, the silent majority of this country supports a war with Iraq. Looks like democracy works.

Theres nothing you dirty, run away to Canada, anti-war pussies can do about stopping this war to liberate Iraq. Nothing you do will stop America from rooting out the king of terrorists, Hussein, nothing you can do will prevent innocent Iraqis from being liberated.

Looks like the forces of good win once again.

THANK GOD FOR BUSH!