Largest US Civil Disobedience Movement Underway

[struggle4progress]

Thursday, 6 December 2007, 10:51 am
Column: afterdowningstreet.org
Largest Civil Disobedience Movement in U.S. History Underway
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/29133

National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, Year 2007 Resistance Against the War Update
By Max Obuszewski

I am of the opinion that there has never been a movement in U.S. history with the number of arrests which have taken place in opposition to the Iraq War. This list of appeals, arrests and legal cases is not all-inclusive ... <list follows> http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0712/S00093.htm

[troubleinwinter]

1. May 3-5-1971 A mass arrest of 12,000 (Anti-Viet Nam War) protesters occurs in Washington.

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1969.html

[Double T]

2. Let me know when the REVOLUTION starts.

[Mnemosyne]

3. The Erie Six- emailing to your link

Everything I've read on this has these patriots between 51 and 80, iirc.

Erie, PA October 26, 2007

Protesters choose jail
War demonstrators get 5-day sentences

BY ROBB FREDERICK
[e-mail]

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A group from the Erie Peace Initiative followed that model on March 19. Nine members locked arms and knelt at the doors to the courthouse.

They were arrested after half an hour. They were fined $500, plus court costs.

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Richard Quiggle, 58, talked of a different war. He quoted Hermann Goering, the Nazi war criminal:

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism."

http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071026/NEWS02/710260382/-1/RSS

I haven't been able to afford to get there for any protests this year since DC last Jan. :cry: