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Celebration of GI Resistance Shuts Oakland Military Recruiting Station
Oakland, California (May 15, 2006) -- 100 people shut down Oakland military recruiting station to celebrate GI resistance to immoral war and occupation.
Oakland, California (May 15, 2006) -- 100 people marched this afternoon from Oakland City Center to the nearby military recruiting station to celebrate GI resistance to immoral war and occupation. Behind a colorful banner for “International Conscientious Objector Day”, and under a giant peace dove, drummers led the procession of high school students, senior citizens, musicians, artists, and community members north on Broadway. At the recruiting station, large posters were unrolled and pasted over the station’s windows to better inform potential recruits of the realities of military service.
Earlier in the day a delegation of Bay Area community members met with a representative of the Canadian consulate to press the case for safe haven for the scores of US military service members now in Canada resisting the ongoing Iraq War.
The initial march and rally was organized by Courage to Resist and the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, with the help of Not in Our Name, Grandmothers Against the War, CodePink, International Capoeira Angola Foundation Oakland, Not Your Soldier, Act Against Torture, and the Heads Up Collective.
Earlier in the day a delegation of Bay Area community members met with a representative of the Canadian consulate to press the case for safe haven for the scores of US military service members now in Canada resisting the ongoing Iraq War.
The initial march and rally was organized by Courage to Resist and the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, with the help of Not in Our Name, Grandmothers Against the War, CodePink, International Capoeira Angola Foundation Oakland, Not Your Soldier, Act Against Torture, and the Heads Up Collective.
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This is a protest? It looks like some kind of jam festival, everyone running around having a good-old time.
Hard to take this seriously when it comes off as just something bored, overpriveleged people do for fun.
Hard to take this seriously when it comes off as just something bored, overpriveleged people do for fun.
Every seen a republican meeting or rightwing demo? Dry and indeed boring, like a military drill. They seem forced, like some obligatory or compulsory actions they feel they *have* to do to prove something they don't truely internalize. They take themselves far too seriously when they wave their flags or blindly support criminal warmongering presidents.
Just look at their musical artists, they have, what, a few jingoistic country acts? They certainly can't dance and are threatened by non-American or "ethnic" things like capoeira or breakdancing.
Anti-war activists know how to take care of business and have a good time because the beliefs are true to our hearts. It's a much more natural expression of humanity.
Just look at their musical artists, they have, what, a few jingoistic country acts? They certainly can't dance and are threatened by non-American or "ethnic" things like capoeira or breakdancing.
Anti-war activists know how to take care of business and have a good time because the beliefs are true to our hearts. It's a much more natural expression of humanity.
At twilight, the recruiters were still busy at the healthy exercise of removing posters from the "career center."
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