Local News

Religious Leaders Arrested in Federal Building Appear in Court

By Elaine Russell, still on RPD watchlist
 

 
(April 3, 2003) The thirteen religious leaders arrested in Federal Building on March 5 during the Ash Wednesday civil disobedience appeared before Judge Ann Pfeifer this morning to receive a plea bargain offer from the DA. They were accompanied by about 100 supporters from the community wearing strips of bandages to show solidarity with the dead and wounded in the U.S.-led attack on Iraq.



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Pittsburgh police lock up antiwar protesters for 30 hours

Pittsburgh police lock up antiwar protesters for 30 hours
 

 

 
By Rosa Ieropoli
 
29 March 2003
 

 

 

 
Below is the account of the experience of some of the 122 protesters in Pittsburgh who were arrested at the end of the March 20 march against the war in Iraq. The account is based on interviews with two of those arrested, Jennifer and Ethan, and confirmed by other accounts published in the press.



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Operation Info-Scrub

From guerrillanews.com
 

 
Operation Info-Scrub
 
Bill Berkowitz, April 3, 2003
 

 

 
In another example of the administration's predilection for secrecy, President Bush recently signed an executive order to "delay the release of millions of historical documents for more than three years and make it easier to reclassify information considered damaging to national security," the Associated Press reported.



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Rochester Teacher in Jordan- Tom's Report from the Middle east

By Tom Little-Moore
 

 
The people returning from Baghdad say that the bombing was increasingly involving civilian targets. Busses and cars were targets on the highway. Cluster bombs were used in a market place near where they stayed. The human shield people have been effective apparently because so far as I have heard not one of the 70 around the city were hit, all remain in Baghdad. As for the CPT they are all but one I think, out of the city.



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Ice storm does not deter peace activists

Despite cold winds and falling ice, more than 50 anti-war demonstrators gathered at the Liberty pole downtown to continue to voice opposition to the genocidal invasion into Iraq. Although the planned march to the War Memorial and planned speakers, veterans against the war, were canceled due to severe ice conditions, the presence of so many people under the circumstances shows the strength of the opposition to this war.



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Ongoing Commentary on Local media coverage of Protests, etc.

The following is a link to some ongoing commentary on how the local media is treating anti-war demonstrations and other news related to the war in Iraq.
 

 
There are also quite a few photos of the demonstrations in Rochester:
 

 
http://www.bcampbell.org/news.htm

Blood Money

Reposted from www.truthout.org
 

 

 
Blood Money
 
By William Rivers Pitt
 
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
 
Thursday 27 February 2003
 
"In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.

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