Six war protesters arrested at Chapel Hill office of Rep. David Price (D) NC

[mnhtnbb]

I've been hoping to see this kind of action for a LONG time.

Six students (mostly from UNC-Chapel Hill) were arrested Friday for occupying the Chapel Hill office of Rep. Price. They were demanding to talk to Price on the phone about the Iraq war.

http://www.newsobserver.com/682/story/544138.html

Any DU'ers have similar stories from around the country?

When is this going to become an organized effort occupying the DC offices
of Senators and Congressional Reps?

[Greeby]

1. They're going on President's Day District Work Week

So they ought to be at their local offices. Why not pop along and tell em how you feel ;)

[AlCzervik]

2. Same thing has been going on here for over 4 weeks

http://cbs13.com/local/local_story_036211904.html

[undeterred]

3. There is a dedicated group in Madison WI

who regularly protest at the office of wishy washy Democratic Senator Kohl. (Fortunately out other Senator is Feingold and our Congressperson is Tammy Baldwin, so they don't need the pressure to do the right thing.) I have heard that there are going to be other efforts going on at Congressional offices in Wisconsin.

[BayCityProgressive]

4. We protested outside

of all 7 offices of Senator Levin in Michigan and went in and gave petitions demanding a withdrawal from Iraq.

[undeterred]

5. Thank you!

:patriot:

[marions ghost]

6. for all doing this anywhere

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[B Calm]

7. Pretty revealing when an elected official has you arrested because

you want to talk to them.

[mnhtnbb]

8. Yeah, and Price is supposed to be against the surge.

[shance]

12. I think many of our Congressional leaders are frauds. They have been recruited and groomed by

corporate interests to run for office. And they use running for a Democratic position so they look the part.

Actions as we all know, show where peoples loyalties really lie. Mr. Price is a fraud and does not represent his constituents or he wouldn't have been so dismissive and had these students arrested for wanting to talk with him on the phone.

[mnhtnbb]

18. He did vote against the surge. See link for votes

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll099.xml

[mmonk]

9. You don't know if it was his order.

David Price is one of the good guys so don't be too hard on him.

[mnhtnbb]

10. Precisely--which is why it's so hard to understand why he didn't just get on the phone

with these students. Maybe because Price is a Dukie?

[B Calm]

22. No kidding! Why didn't he go to their rescue?

[shance]

11. These legislators aren't Democrats, they're corporate sponsored shills posing as Democrats.

n/t

[BayCityProgressive]

13. Democrats

are almost all corporate shills pretending to be representing the working class.

[mnhtnbb]

15. maybe it ought to be called the corporate wing of the Democratic party

headed by the Clintons--kind of like the opposite of Wellstone and Dean's democratic wing of the Democratic party.

[knowledgeispwr]

17. Price was probably still in DC

Remember the vote on the Iraq War resolution yesterday?

[NYC Liberal]

20. He didn't "have" them arrested.

Anyway, he is AGAINST the surge and is in Washington. He voted FOR the resolution yesterday opposing Bush's surge.

[SunDrop23]

14. Why Price? Why not Burr and Dole? I don't get this...?

[mnhtnbb]

16. close to UNC campus is the only reason I can figure.

[loyalsister]

19. Two more makes 13 arrests at Carnahan’s office

Two women, both anti-war protesters, were arrested for trespassing Thursday at the Brentwood office of U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-St. Louis.

The two were among four women who showed up at his office at 11 a.m. At noon, the Brentwood police showed up.

http://www.stltoday.com/blogs/news-politicalfix/2007/02/two-more-makes-13-arrests-at-carnahans-office/

[B Calm]

23. Unfreakin' believable! Arrested for wanting to talk to an elected official!

[mnhtnbb]

21. Just re-read the article. Sit-in was about cutting the funding.

[leftchick]

24. ""Wave of Congressional office occupations builds, Below the radar"

http://firemtn.blogspot.com/2007/02/wave-of-congressional-office.html

I just watched the new MoveCongress.org video of John Murtha explaining his legislative strategy to end the occupation of Iraq, which seems to contain some interesting hidden booby traps for the Bush administration. There is, unfortunately, another concealed agenda item in his plan—providing cover for Democrats who are under massive pressure to vote No on the upcoming $93 billion emergency appropriation Bush needs to continue the war.

And plenty of them need cover. Since the 110th Congress opened, pressure has been escalating on Democrats and Republicans alike to screw down the valves on the money pipeline. Most dramatic has been a surge, so to speak, in actual takeovers of Representatives’ and Senators’ offices.

So What’s New?

The tactic of taking over politicians' offices is hardly a new one and has been used to notable effect earlier in the struggle to end this unjust and unjustifiable occupation. In Maine, for instance, there have been repeated occupations of the offices of “moderate” Republican Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins (as reported here last year by Michael Uhl, Veterans For Peace Chapter 1.).

One change now is the breadth of the movement and its intensity. Though the occupation tactic has long been under discussion by many activists, a trailblazing step forward was taken last month by peace movement folks in Sacramento. With an outfit called Sacramento for Democracy at the core, they are in the 28th day of a rolling 9 to 5 occupation of the local office of Representative Doris Matsui. Matsui, a Democrat, has stepped up her anti-war rhetoric in response, but that’s all so far.