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by LA-IMC
Friday, Dec. 08, 2006 at 1:55 PM
1:55 pm - Protesters are blocking the doors to the Pasadena recruitment center on Colorado now. Caller reporters 6 people blocking the doors to the offices at this time.
About 50 students marched from Pasadena City College to the center. Doors have been blocked for the last 30 minutes. Marine Recruiters are getting upset and starting to push protesters. About 10 Pasadena police there now. Arrests likely at any moment now.
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by LA-IMC
Friday, Dec. 08, 2006 at 2:32 PM
2:30 pm – Recruiters have backed off their threats of arrests. Caller speculates this is possibly due to Spanish language TV media now at the scene. The blockade of the front doors continues.
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by Steven Gibson
Friday, Dec. 08, 2006 at 10:20 PM
sgibson@afsc.org 213-489-1900
December 7, 2006 Peace Event at Pasadena City College
Statement
Thursday, as part of a long-term campaign to bring an end to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and to begin the healing process both abroad and at home, we the people are making a declaration of peace. For over three and one half years, we have marched and we have rallied; we have campaigned for political change and we have lobbied our representatives. Yet still this war rages on. We the people, along with a clear majority of Americans, have told our elected officials that it is time for our sons and daughters to come home. Yet still, they do not listen.
As citizens of a democratic state, we must try all options. We have raised our voices and we have used our votes. Still, the proposed solutions to this war from people of power include sending more troops, instead of setting timetables and bringing the young men and women home. We therefore place our bodies on the line, in the path of escalating the war and so will preventing more young people joining the military. We do so to save the lives of young people, both here and in Iraq. We risk as much as we can to bear witness to the unnecessary loss of life caused by war and because our children risk far more when they enlist in the military.
Because we want our children to be students and not soldiers. Because we seek to save the lives of young people, we seek to close this recruiting center - even if for just one day. We do this in the tradition of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Caesar Chavez, without the use of violence and with love in our hearts. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once wrote, "we present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of our local and national community." We therefore are using our bodies today as a barrier to continued war, and we do so for the entire international community to bear witness.
On Wednesday, Dec 6th, the Baker Commission came out with recommendations for the US in Iraq. By our statements and actions we are making our opinion known that we oppose any move in Iraq that does not start with a detailed commitment to remove US armed forces from Iraq, starting immediately.
Over 2900 US armed forces members have died in Iraq and more than 600,000 Iraqis have died. Pasadena Community College students, professors and staff joined with local peace groups including Foothills Peace Coalition, Alhambra Peace Vigil, South Pasadena Peace Vigil, Pasadena Peace Vigil, Peace Witness and organizations including Catholic Worker LA, Code Pink LA, American Friends Service Committee, and Somos Seres Humanos in an all day presence for peace in Pasadena.
Thursday, Dec 7th
All Day 8 AM - 7 PM Signs & Presence for Peace on Colorado Blvd.
We had two black draped coffins as well as signs against the war in Iraq and against recruiting.
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by Jammer CC
Saturday, Dec. 09, 2006 at 12:18 AM
You know what, I think the soldiers should have a union completely independent from their leadership. That way they can have a nationwide strike to protest the war in Iraq, if the majority wants to. That way the leadership and White House will have to come up with real solutions. Just like when workers go on strike. Basically undo the wrongs or we sit out. That's what they need to do.
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