CODEPINK Activists Stage Encampment Outside of Congress, Call for No War on Syria
What: Peace Insurrection calling for No War on Syria
When: 7:00 pm September 6, 2013 until the Congressional vote
Where: Across from Longworth Congressional Building, at the corner of New Jersey and Independence Avenue, Washington DC
Washington, DC -- Beginning on the night of September 6, 2013, CODEPINK activists and allies have set up a camp known as the ‘Peace Insurrection’ outside of Congress at the corners of Independence and New Jersey avenues, calling for no military intervention in Syria. Activists will be spend all day and all night for the next week at Congress until the House votes on the authorization of military force in Syria, and protesters will engage in daily actions to express the overwhelming dissent felt across America.
Activists at the encampment will present a People's Resolution as an alternative to war, visit elected representatives every day, paint and chalk and create visuals, including a dialogue booth for folks to talk about no war on Syria. Activists will camp out with chairs, sleeping bags, pots and pans, art supplies, and anti-war spirit. Vigils will take place every day for the innocent victims of the bloodshed in Syria, with hope for an end to it through a ceasefire, negotiations, and aid for the refugees, not military intervention.
- See more at: http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?id=6479#sthash.eAnwPLyZ.dpuf
--- she is on Beyond the Pale right now (radio wbai). She says that from the capital police to reporters to her conservative family - practically unanimous opposition to war.
