Protesters Grow Frustrated as War Wears On-Some activists use civil disobedience to force change

[babylonsister]

Protesters Grow Frustrated as War Wears On
Some activists use civil disobedience to force change
by Robert Stern


Mary Ellen Marino has had enough of the Iraq war.

She is fed up that too many lawmakers from both political parties are acting too slowly or not at all in heeding the message from anti-war activists like herself that it’s past time that U.S. troops leave Iraq.

It’s a message that Marino, a peace activist from Princeton Borough, and other demonstrators are trying to deliver not just through anti-war marches but also by directly pressuring individual members of Congress through smaller-scale rallies, sit-ins and lobbying of their offices.

Even civil disobedience — generally in the form of purposely occupying a legislator’s office even beyond business hours — has become a tactic meant to draw attention and provoke change.

“My concern is that we’ve done all the things that people can do but the Congress itself is not using the techniques that are available to them” to end the war and even to initiate impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, said Marino.

Ed Dunphy, an anti-war activist from Washington Township who is a member of the Princeton Borough-based Coalition for Peace Action, expressed similar frustration.

“No one is holding this president or this administration accountable for what I consider to be lies and deceptions that led us into this invasion and occupation of Iraq,” Dunphy said.

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/08/4400/

[bdamomma]

1. and the Congress is on recess right now, they are not listening to us

and this will have to change. Each day that goes by, the death count and the wounded are added to the illegal murderous list, Cheney and * must be held accountable.

[lonestarnot]

2. And it seems they never fucking will. We've been had.

[Rageneau]

3. As I keep saying: If war protesters want attention, they've got to march naked!

The press will deliberately continue to ignore anti-war assemblies, but there isn't a paper or pundit or press outlet extant that can pass up a story involving naked people.

MARCH NAKED!

[babylonsister]

4. Be careful what you wish for.

Just sayin'... :scared: :hide:

But the press IS part of the problem. If you get these massive amounts of people showing up to protest, and no one takes notice, or deflates the numbers, people might wonder what the point is.
If a tree falls in the woods, etc.

[Mojorabbit]

6. The media quit covering our local

protests long ago. It is disheartening.

[babylonsister]

7. I've heard quite a few complaints similar to yours, most recently from

the San Fran area where activists are, well, active, but the local media is shutting them out.

[Tesha]

8. We still get a little coverage every now and then

Here, from the (Nashua) Telegraph, is yours truly holding
the "Healthcare not Warfare" sign, backed up by Mr. Tesha
holding the "(No) WAR" sign:



http://nashuatelegraph.com/

This took place just a few nights ago as part of the
nationwide coordinated protest of Bush vetoing SCHIP.

Tesha

[babylonsister]

9. Yea-a-a, Nashua, and Mr. and Mrs. Tesha!

:thumbsup:

[bdamomma]

5. not like we have many fronts to fight, but the media should be on our list.

if the media realizes they are there to inform us instead of backing up this miserable thugs, we could get more attention.
Babylon Sister we seem to be on the same wavelength.:hi: