http://www.westword.com/issues/2004-05-27/news.htmlA man stands in a black robe and hood, arms outstretched in a crucifixion pose. The image is newly infamous, emblematic of the rapidly escalating Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal in Iraq. But in this case, the hooded man is not an Iraqi prisoner, and he is not terrified. He's hanging out with college friends in a Capitol Hill apartment amid scissors, thread and scraps of black fabric. He and seven other members of Creative Resistance, an Auraria campus-based group of theatrical radical activists, are preparing for the next day's protest, and they're having a damn good time.
Pizza boxes, PBR cans and cigarette butts litter the apartment they've holed up in while trying to determine how to counter United States Army recruiters scheduled to appear on campus in just under twenty hours.
Their plan, in broad strokes, is to have two of their male members, dressed in the black costumes, stand in silent protest on either side of the recruiters' "Army of One" Hummer. After the Army reps set up their usual rock-climbing wall, one of Creative Resistance's more agile members will approach the recruiters, ask a few questions and then request to scale the wall. Once at the top, this activist will unfurl a protest banner and refuse to descend, presenting the recruiters with a dilemma: Allow the protester to remain, or yank him down by his top rope, potentially injuring him in the process. The third element of their plan comes down to this crucial question: To puke or not to puke?
The activists debate at length whether one of their members should be led on all fours by a leash in a replication of another of the repulsive Abu Ghraib photographs, approach the Army recruiting table, announce "War makes me sick," then vomit on the army's table of propaganda pamphlets, at the feet of the recruiters, on the sidewalk or, if doable, all three.
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