from The Progressive:
Protesting Girl’s Mom Charged with “Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor”By Matthew Rothschild, April 10, 2010
Here’s a new one.
A 12-year-old anti-war protester, Frankie Hughes, refused to leave Sen. Tom Harkin’s office in Des Moines on April 7, so not only was she charged with trespassing, but her mother was charged with “contributing to the delinquency of a minor.”
Frankie and her mother, Renee Lynn Espeland, are members of the Catholic Worker community in Des Moines.
On April 7, they were accompanying Christine Gaunt, 53, of Grinnell on her third sit-in at the federal building, where Sen. Harkin and Sen. Grassley have their offices.
All three were protesting the war funding in the current Appropriations bill. And they were taking part in the Peaceable Assembly Campaign that Voices for Creative Nonviolence is organizing. The campaign seeks to end the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. .........(more)
The complete piece is at:
http://progressive.org/mc041010.html