REPORT: Noon protest/rally still in progress (Santa Rosa, CA)

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Looked like some sort of spontaneous demonstration on College Ave. near the 4th St. split. Crowd looked like about half students & peace movement types, probably more than 100 total.

What surprised me was that the other half looked like corporate employees on lunch breaks; further surprising was the site, which appeared to be the steps of an office building mostly containing a large Century 21 real estate office and a title company. Maybe folks in that industry are upset that Bush has done nothing about the home mortgage default crisis? Don't know.

A constant stream of motorists were honking in support and flashing thumbs-up and peace signs at the demonstrators, who were waving their "Bush = Satan" signs back at the traffic waiting at four-way stoplights. Didn't see any TV trucks or press while I was there but they could have been there earlier and left, since 2PM is a little late to get on the 5 o'clock news.

[Webster Green]

1. I'll bet some of them are occupying our congresswomen's office..

Lynn Woolsey's office is right there on College Ave. I'll bet the demonstration is part of the Project Occupation actions:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2741693&mesg_id=2741693

[Greeby]

2. Am I missing something

Lynn Woolsey always votes against funding, and is one of the main campaigners to end the war. Why would they be protesting at her office? :shrug:

[Webster Green]

3. I was just guessing because of the location. (n/t)

[Warren DeMontague]

4. That would be beyond silly. I can't think of a better Rep. than Woolsey.

If she's not anti-war enough, no one is.

Personally, I'm very proud of her. :thumbsup:

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6. I had no idea of the extent of the demonstrations and arrests

Thanks Webster for posting that. It's bad enough for the media to screen out stories like this, but when a DU moderator makes an inadvertent error and reclassifies a news story like this as an editorial instead of LBN, even fewer folks see it. Thank you for continuing to call attention to these actions.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. I've seen some anti-war protesters on that corner, before.

Women in Black, perhaps.

[Webster Green]

7. Looks like it was a Move On protest at Woolsey's office

I found an email from Move On that I had missed. They were demonstrating to "keep the pressure on" legislators to end the war.