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Sit-in protesters arrested at Sen Kerry's office
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aimee L Smith)
Tue Feb 4 12:31:12 2003
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Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 12:30:29 -0500
From: Aimee L Smith <alsmith@MIT.EDU>
please spread the word, particularly to news folk.
I will fwd on any ways we can help out.
in hope,
Aimee
From: Daniel Melnechuk <isis@isisdesign.com>
Subject: [statecom] Sit-in protesters arrested at Sen Kerry's office
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 12:10:31 -0500
Two of the sit-in folks have been arrested. The third had to use the
bathroom and they wouldn't let him back in. A search on the Boston
Globe web site for "Kerry" has NOTHING about the sit in or arrests.
Instead there is a fluff piece titled "Who is John Kerry". Why am i
not surprised!
Dan Melnechuk
PRESS ADVISORY:
ANTI-WAR CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
BEGINS TODAY IN BOSTON
For Immediate Release: February 3, 2003
Contact: Erin Siegal (617) 269-8706
ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATORS TAKE OVER KERRY'S OFFICE Demanding that
presidential candidate sign resolution seeking further OK for war
BOSTON - Three members of the Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party have
occupied the Boston office of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry after
his refusal to co-sponsor Senator Ted Kennedy's resolution
seeking further congressional approval before a war on Iraq.
Kennedy's resolution, S. Res. 32, has not been signed by Kerry,
and it is clear that Kerry, who is a candidate for his party's
presidential nomination, has no intention of being a co-sponsor. There
anti-war activists, Patrick Keaney, Michael Gainer, and Matthew Osborn,
began a sit-in at Kerry's district office at One Bowdoin Square
at approximately 3:00 p.m. today. They expect to be led out of the
building in handcuffs between 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.
On Friday, January 31, two days after Kennedy introduced the proposal, the
Boston Herald ran an editorial praising Kerry's unwillingness to join the
state's senior senator in opposing the war. The editorial contained the
following quote from Senator John Kerry: "We should all focus right now on
[the Bush administration's efforts to make a case for war at the U.N. this
week] as we work to gain maximum support from our allies." The activists are
demanding that Kerry sign the Kennedy resolution, as well as a similar
resolution authored by Senator Byrd.
"We feel that the Bush administration's planned war on Iraq is immoral, and
cannot be justified," said participant Matthew Osborn, of Brookline. "We
demand that Senator Kerry show leadership on this issue, instead of
acquiescing to the administration's drive to war. This war will cause untold
suffering in Iraq, will cost the lives of U.S. servicemen and women, and is
going to draw funding away from vital programs here at home. We don't need
this war what we need is our leaders to start speaking out against it. If it
comes down to committing civil disobedience, we are obviously prepared to
take that step to prevent this disaster from happening."
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