Vandenberg Bust

ON MAY NINETEENTH AT VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE ON THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST OPPONENTS OF PRESIDENT BUSH’S PROPOSED MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAM HELD A RALLY AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ACTION TO COMMEMORATE ARMED FORCES DAY. SOME TWENTY PEOPLE CROSSED THE LINE AND WALKED ABOUT HALF A BLOCK TO CONFRONT A LINE OF GUARDS STRETCHING ACROSS THE ROAD. FRUSTRATED AT BEING SO FAR FROM THE ACTION, A REPORTER FROM OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, ON ASSIGNMENT FOR FREE SPEECH RADIO NEWS, JOINED THEM. HE RECORDED THE ACTION UNTIL GUARDS, UNIMPRESSED BY THE CALIFORNIA PRESS ID HE WAS BRANDISHING, ARRESTED HIM. HE GOT HIS EQUIPMENT AND RECORDING BACK INTACT ON HIS RELEASE AND FILED THIS REPORT: