Clinton Campaign Office Re-occupied By Peace Activists On Day Of Iowa Voting [View All]

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CLINTON CAMPAIGN OFFICE RE-OCCUPIED BY PEACE ACTIVISTS ON DAY OF IOWA VOTING
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2008-01-04 01:01. Elections | Nonviolent Resistance

Action caps four days of Iowa primary protests against war in Iraq
By Mike Ferner January 3, 2008

Des Moines – Hours before voting begins in the nation’s first presidential poll, peace activists placed the Iraq war front and center again this afternoon as they occupied the Iowa headquarters of Senator Hillary Clinton for the second time since campaigning began last fall.

Over a dozen members of a campaign called “Seasons Of Discontent: A Presidential Occupation Project” (SODaPOP) went to Clinton’s office, saying they still had not gotten a response to a letter delivered in October demanding she publicly oppose any more spending for the war or occupation, and foreswear an attack on Iran.

But as the peace activists approached Clinton’s East Second Street office, staff members locked the main door and refused admittance. At a locked side door, a Clinton staff person was admitted but could not close the door before Jeff Leys, co-director of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, sat down in the doorway.

Leys, speaking on the phone as he remained in the doorway, said about another 15 peace activists were standing outside the entrance helping block it, several Clinton staffers were blocking the doorway into the office, and that no one was going in or out.

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