Seven Peace Activists Arrested in Madison, WI in front of Senator Herb Kohl's Office...

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Seven Peace Activists Arrested in Madison, WI in front of Senator Herb Kohl's Office in Occupation Project Action

By Joy First


On September 7, 2007, seven peace activists were arrested in Madison as they
blocked the sidewalk with crime scene tape in front of Wisconsin Senator
Herb Kohl's office. The seven arrested were Cassandra Dixon, Flo Evans, Joy
First, Jamie Haack, Janet Parker, Karin Sandvik, and Susan Spahn. This was
the first arrest for nonviolent civil resistance for Flo Evans, Jamie Haack,
and Karin Sandvik.

We have been talking to Senator Kohl's staff since before the war began,
asking him to vote against the war and vote against any funding for the war.
Though Senator Kohl says that the war is a mistake and it should end, he
also says he must vote for money to support the troops as long as they are
over there. The occupation of Iraq is a crime against humanity instigated
by the Bush administration, but Senator Kohl, along with many other members
of Congress, continue to financially support this criminal activity. With
over 3,700 US soldiers killed and an estimated one million Iraqis dead, the
war is a travesty that causes incredible human suffering and it must end
now.

Many of us have called Senator Kohl, we have vigiled both inside his Madison
office and outside on the sidewalk, some of us have met with him in person
by traveling to DC or to Milwaukee, but he still doesn't hear us and still
continues to fund the war. Today we took stronger action in speaking truth
to power.

Today we followed the nonviolent principles of Gandhi and King, organizing
an action of nonviolent civil resistance as a way to speak out strongly
against the war. The action was organized by Madison Pledge of Resistance
and is part of the Occupation Project (www.vcnv.org),
a nationwide campaign to occupy the offices of our members of Congress,
demanding that they do not vote for any more funding for the war.

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1. Good for them

Cindy Sheehan spoke in Wisconsin yesterday at the Fighting Bob Fest.

"Sheehan's talk of an independent bid for the House has earned her the requisite share of political nit-picking. But Fighting Bob, who more than once left his Republican Party to mount independent progressive challenges to the political establishment of his time, would surely tell Sheehan to take the criticism as a compliment and carry on.

The point of insurgent politics, as practiced by La Follette and all who have followed in his footsteps, is not to fight for the sake of fighting. It is not to be unreasonable or, as La Follette's foes referred to him, "irreconcilable." The point is to identify essential principles and advance them without apology until time and human progress make those principles no longer radical but the embodiment of mainstream Americanism."

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/224931