Omg! Excellent Protest in Front of Seattle US Marine Recruiting Station!!

[leftchick]

Steve Bonkamp, of Seattle, carries a figure representing a U.S. soldier bleeding on top of a barrel of oil Monday, May 23, 2005, during a protest in front of a U.S. Marine Corps recruiting office in Seattle's University District. Several dozen protestors demonstrated at three miltary recruiting locations Monday in opposition to the war in Iraq and military recruiting that takes place on school campuses. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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[flygal]

1. OH God I miss Seattle

I used to live in the U. Dist. I'll never forget all the cool liberal people. sniff.

[Ian David]

2. Support Our Troops: Fuck their wives

I think that might be an effective anti-recruiting campaign.

"Please Enlist So I can Fuck Your Wife."

[EFerrari]

3. Do you know, is this the same group that went to a mall

about a month ago, and closed down the recruiting office?

Go, Seattle!

[leftchick]

4. Not sure. Here is an article about them....

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/225552_protest24.html

Angry that military recruiters come to their schools, more than 100 college and high school students marched on recruiting offices in Seattle yesterday.

Chanting "Education not war, kick recruiters out the door" and other slogans, the students blocked the entrances to military offices and pounded on windows in Northgate, the University District and the Central Area. The three neighborhood rallies began simultaneously at noon.

The young demonstrators said they oppose the war in Iraq and don't want recruiters trying to sign up students at their schools. They also were protesting the fact that military spending continues to rise while the nation's public education system struggles financially.

"I don't want to go to war," said Ob Flores, 17, from Mount Rainier High School in Des Moines. "I want to learn; I don't want to die."

[EFerrari]

5. Hard to tell if it's the same group. Their action started at

a Friends' group. Maybe one of the organizer's was a Steve, but honestly can't remember his last name or if it was Northgate Mall. I'm SO PROUD of these kids. :)

[chlamor]

6. Let's keep this up-nominated, need more nominations

This is sort of like shall we say well just a bit WAY MORE IMPORTANT THAN FILIBUSTER COMPROMISE SELL OUT WEAK KNEED POLITICS OF COMFORT stuff.



"There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."

-Mario Savio

[EFerrari]

7. That's right. Let's starve the machine.

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