PROTEST ACTIONS IN DC

Vets for Peace and other groups have put together a newspaper called War Crimes Times. Its a newspaper that exposes the crimes of the government. Elaine, Ann Wright and Michael Ratner were some of the writers in this issue.  On Friday, Vets For Peace and Elaine and me went into the newseum, which is a museum of news ( that by the way has absolutely no record of major protests against the Iraq war or impeachment). 

About 11 people total participated in the action. When we got inside people did a huge banner drop from the 2nd floor that said prosecute war criminals Bush and Cheney. There were quite a bit of people inside and they were completely shocked. People outside and inside were  very responsive for the demand to Obama to arrest Bush and Cheney. 

Then World Can't Wait hung out near 18th and Consitution with a banner that read, From Gaza To Guantanamo Stop The Endless Wars of Terror and Torture. Tons of people were taking picutures with the banner. So many in fact that we had a hard time leaving because people kept wanting pictures.The Arrest Bush group was there and they came and hung wth us for a while. We had a really good scene going on. We were challeninging people around Obama on the bullhorn and the war and that people shouldn't get sucked into supporting things under Obama they wouldn't have supported over Bush.

 Exposure of Obama was surprisingly  well recieved and the flier that we have did even more exposure and pointing to the need for mass resistance. We are getting our message out to about a millions people. It is similar to Denver but with even more people from all different backgrounds and political perspectives. 

Today is the Shoe Bush protest, we will have a rally at dupont circle that Debra is speaking at and then march to the white house to throw shoes. We expect others from the outreach we did to be there ad they liked the idea of the shoe protest. We really want people outside of DC to know what World Can't Wait is doing so people should repost articles and pictures on different blogs, myspace, facebook, texts and email list.