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-White House & Pentagon |
Tuesday, August 7, the group gathered at the World Bank
building, then processed to the White House where they were joined by
a group of North Koreans protesting U.S. military threats. On
Wednesday, they gathered outside the Israeli embassy, chanting "Free
Vanunu" in English and Hebrew, and reading a statement in support of
the imprisoned nuclear whistleblower. The group also called for an
end to the occupation and peace for all the people of the region.
Sharing meals and hearing first-hand from witnesses to war in
Colombia, Hiroshima, Israel/Palestine, and Vieques, participants in
the retreat prepared to return to the Pentagon on Nagasaki Day,
August 9.
That Thursday morning, five women entered the Pentagon at the River entrance and were arrested. See the article, 'Planting the Seeds of Nonviolence', for an account of this action. Four other protesters were arrested outside - three men who refused to put down their signs, and one woman who was walking backwards away from the scene, mouth taped, holding a blank sign.
PENTAGON UPDATE
Erin Leitner-Sieber and Scott Kenji Warren were convicted
July 20 in federal district court in Alexandria, Virginia, of
throwing an object at a building - namely blood on the Pentagon -
last April. Three people who had joined in the action but were not
charged testified to their own complicity in the symbolic naming
action and peace witness that took place on Good Friday.
Leitner-Sieber was sentenced to six months in prison, and Warren to
three months.
For more information, contact Jonah House, 1301 Moreland Ave., Baltimore, MD 21216, (410)233-6238 or Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, 503 Rock Creek Church Rd. NW, Washington, DC 20010, (202)882-9649.
Letters of support should be sent to Erin Sieber #27024-083, FDC Philadelphia, POB 562, Philadelphia, PA 19105.