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The Washington Post's Michelle Boorstein and Allison Klein report, "A week of events meant to crank up a national demonstration against the war in Iraq is set to begin Saturday, with a 1,000-person "die-in" at the U.S. Capitol led by current and former American troops and accompanied by taps and a mock 21-gun salute."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307E.shtml

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Protesters aim to inspire anti-war civil disobedience

Washington Post

09/13/07

A week of events meant to crank up a national demonstration against the war in Iraq is set to begin Saturday, with a 1,000-person ‘die-in’ at the U.S. Capitol led by current and former American troops and accompanied by taps and a mock 21-gun salute. The die-in will be the culmination of a march and rally. Organizers hope the event will spur people in the antiwar movement to move from protesting to performing acts of civil disobedience that ‘get in the way of the war machine,’ said Brian Becker, national coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition, at a news conference yesterday at the National Press Club...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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