Anti-Bush protests in Uruguay

[struggle4progress]

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:34:38
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More than 6,000 Uruguayan demonstrators have taken to the streets of Montevideo to protest the arrival of U.S. President George W. Bush.

Protesters chanted, beat drums, set off firecrackers and burned effigies of Bush along Montevideo's main avenue. Labor leaders read vitriol-laden speeches denouncing Bush, the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, and what they termed U.S. "imperialism".

"I really hate Bush who is doing so much harm with the wall he wants to build between Mexico and the United States. It is a wall that goes against all human rights and will only bring death," said one of the protesters ...

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=2107§ionid=3510207

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. "...will only bring death." That's because * is the Death President

And make no mistake about that!

[David__77]

2. "what they termed U.S. 'imperialism'"... please

it IS U.S. imperialism, and has been for more than a century now. And it was settler colonialism before that.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Bush arrives in Uruguay

Bush arrives in Uruguay
Associated Press
Saturday, March 10, 2007:


President George W Bush arrived in Uruguay on Friday, while earlier protests were held in Montevideo to demonstrate against the visit.

Uruguay is the second stop on Bush's tour of Latin America, aimed at challenging the notion that the United States has neglected Latin American nations.

Earlier in the day, protesters took to the streets of Montevideo, to take part in an, "anti-imperialist" protest designed to coincide with the US President's visit.

Demonstrators also attacked a local McDonald's restaurant, destroying windows and burning tires.
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http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?id=101972



Graffiti labels President Bush an assassin in Montevideo, Uruguay, one of the countries the president is to visit on a trip that begins Thursday.
(Miguel Rojo / AFP/Getty Images)
Mar 5, 2007

[TheBobo]

4. that is

awesome. do graffiti or grassroots protests that strong exist in america?

[Judi Lynn]

5. Don't know! I'd imagine the artist wouldn't hang around to take compliments on it here!

Did you read about this investigation soon after it happened? Very spooky:

In North Carolina, two Secret Service agents and a Raleigh police officer questioned A.J. Brown, a student at Durham Technical Community College, for 40 minutes in her doorway. She didn't let them into her apartment because they did not have a search warrant. She knew her constitutional rights.

But from the doorway, these specialists in un-American activities could see, as Kris Axtman reported, "a poster of George W. Bush holding a noose. It read, 'We hang on your every word.'" The noose was not around his neck. The poster was critical of Bush's unwavering support of the death penalty while he was governor of Texas.

Reacting to Axtman's story, Barry Steinhardt, associate director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington said, "It's a very frightening trend: that people are doing nothing more than expressing the very freedoms that we are fighting to preserve and find themselves with the FBI at the door."
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http://www.b.150m.com/writers/hentoff/door.html