Office Politics: ‘Occupation Project’ To Step Up Anti-War Pressure

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Office Politics: ‘Occupation Project’ To Step Up Anti-War Pressure
Monday, February 19, 2007
By Nathan Diebenow, Associate Editor


Interview With
Jeff Leys
Co-coordinator of
Voices for Creative Nonviolence

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In Fairbanks, Alaska, they began with a song about peace.

Soon after, one of the 20-or-so citizens read a poem – "Dolche et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen – to be exact.

Then the group started reading the names of the American soldiers who died in the Iraq War.

The participants reportedly made it to the end of the 20-year-old servicepersons when authorities arrested Rob Mulford.

Mulford was the only anti-war demonstrator who had refused to leave Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s office. He was cited with "Failure to Obey a Lawful Order" and released later.

Another group read the Sermon on the Mount and then four letters from Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers in the Illinois office of Sen. Barack Obama.

All four citizens – Ross Martini Eiler, Ron Durham, Dan Pearson, and Neil Brideau – were arrested and charged with criminal trespass.

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