Protests, vandalism greet recruiting center's opening (N.C.)

[donsu]

http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/522085.html


CHAPEL HILL - Police charged five protesters on Friday during the second demonstration in a month outside the new Army recruiting station.

"We thought it was important to not have this recruiting station open quietly," said Emily McFarlane, a UNC-Chapel Hill junior who helped organize the protest at the Army Career Center, 1502 E. Franklin St.

About 30 protesters -- members of Students for a Democratic Society, The Raging Grannies and others -- held signs, walked in a circle and shouted, "Out of Iraq, out of our schools! Out of town, shut the war down!"

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Two of them, Barry Freeman, 80, and Janie Freeman, 71, were charged with second-degree trespass after refusing Bellamy's request that they put their signs down. The couple's 8-by-11-inch signs read "Hands Off My Grandchildren."
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awarding gold stars all around

[wakeme2008]

1. kick and nom nt

[libnnc]

2. An army career center on Franklin St. ......

I wonder how far down Franklin St. that is from the campus?


K&R

[treestar]

3. It can't be across from Silent Sam

In my day that would have attracted too many protestors.

Though, those were the days of protests against nuclear power. Too late for Viet Nam and too early for BFEE's attempts to transfer the military industrial complex threat to Saddam Hussein.