(video)Arrest of 61 Peace Activists Outside White House Kicks Off Week of Protest Against Afghan War

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Arrest of 61 Peace Activists Outside White House Kicks Off Week of Protest Against Afghan War

As the occupation of Afghanistan enters its ninth year, the antiwar movement here in the United States has organized several actions this week calling for an end to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Dozens of rallies and protests are being held across the country today. We speak to David Swanson, who was among sixty-one people arrested Monday at a protest outside the White House.

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/7/arrest_of_61_peace_activists_outside

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Do you suppose that Obama will eventually have the National Guard

shooting college students, too?

By now, there's just no telling.

[jakeXT]

2. college students have to pay their debts and there is no draft

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Yet

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. Would that we could unrec ridiculous comments

-1

[jakeXT]

5. This feature was planned for DU I believe, or at least rate posts

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/217

[QC]

7. I think that shaking one's pom poms especially hard counts as an unrec. n/t

[jakeXT]

6. kick