Protesters arrested upon attempt to enter Halliburton meeting

[sazemisery]

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/14601108.htm

Oklahoma - why do I live here!?!?!?!?!?

[RCinBrooklyn]

1. How about some Congressman joining the protest!

[NJ_Lib]

2. They set up a designated area for protesters...?

... Um, Ok... Can the Police do that...? I was under the impression you could protest on any public property but I could be wrong... Anybody know?


Edit: Spelling

[Che_Nuevara]

3. Yes, you can protest anywhere you like,

but they got them for trespassing (ie PRIVATE property) and for destroying public property (tearing up the fence). This is well within legal bounds.

[OKNancy]

4. Kick

[Robbien]

5. Protesters arrested at Halliburton meeting

Sixteen people protesting Halliburton Co.'s role as a military contractor were arrested Wednesday outside a building where shareholders discussed spinning off the subsidiary that provides meals, clean laundry and other services to U.S. troops in Iraq.

One man was accused of vandalism for tearing up a plastic fence holding back protesters, and the rest were accused of trespassing as they left an enclosure and headed toward the meeting.

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/nation/14602536.htm

Appears they were arrested for not staying in the "free speech zone". Also the article implies there were only 16 protesters, while 16 were arrested there were somewhere between 100-200 people there.

[gratuitous]

6. They can arrest protesters at a Halliburton meeting

But they won't touch the Fred Phelps Gang at a military funeral.

[damntexdem]

7. Just got back from the protest a while ago.

But I drove there (3 hours) this morning, so got there after the arrests. So, over a hundred people (crowd count anyone?) turned out in a small Oklahoma town, to which Halliburton had moved the shareholders' meeting to get away from protests in Houston. And some people got arrested trying to enter the meeting -- arrests at Houston meetings being another reason they fled to Duncan. Where will they go next year -- Alaska?

By the way, just driving around Duncan, it is a real company town -- massive Halliburton facilities, especially on the south side. At least one Duncan resident did come to the protest and, from the mike, thanked the rest of us for having come. Many other residents may have agreed but could not take the risk of being seen in the protest. It is an issue that must be addressed: places where most people's livelihoods depend on truly-disgusting, as opposed to ordinarily-disgusting, corporations.