Dozens Arrested in Tacoma, WA: Protest Speaks Through Arrests
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0312-04.htm
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Showdown at Port Tacoma: Confronting the war machine
CounterPunch
by Ron Jacobs
03/13/07
On March 5th, 2007, several people were attacked and at least three arrested by police in Tacoma, WA. at a series of protests against shipments of military supplies at the city’s port. The reasons for the attacks and arrests were not clear to onlookers, who told the press that the protesters were doing nothing but holding signs. In an exchange I had with Jeff Berryhill of Olympia, WA. (who was arrested along with Wally Cudderford and Caitlin Esworthy) I was told that all he was doing when he was shot with a rubber bullet by the police was “holding a sign that read “Courage to Resist. org.’” (Courage to Resist is an organization supporting military resisters.) The next thing he knew he was hit in the thigh by a police-fired projectile. ..
http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs03122007.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Tacoma port militarization resistance, Mar. 12, 2007
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5921/
UFPPC supports port militarization resistance
http://tinyurl.com/2k4qnd
Informant: jensenmk
From ufpj-news
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Showdown at Port Tacoma: Confronting the war machine
CounterPunch
by Ron Jacobs
03/13/07
On March 5th, 2007, several people were attacked and at least three arrested by police in Tacoma, WA. at a series of protests against shipments of military supplies at the city’s port. The reasons for the attacks and arrests were not clear to onlookers, who told the press that the protesters were doing nothing but holding signs. In an exchange I had with Jeff Berryhill of Olympia, WA. (who was arrested along with Wally Cudderford and Caitlin Esworthy) I was told that all he was doing when he was shot with a rubber bullet by the police was “holding a sign that read “Courage to Resist. org.’” (Courage to Resist is an organization supporting military resisters.) The next thing he knew he was hit in the thigh by a police-fired projectile. ..
http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs03122007.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Tacoma port militarization resistance, Mar. 12, 2007
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5921/
UFPPC supports port militarization resistance
http://tinyurl.com/2k4qnd
Informant: jensenmk
From ufpj-news
rudkla - 13. Mär, 09:51
