US Military Veterans to Lead Civil Resistance at White House

[bluestflame]

US Military Veterans to Lead Civil Resistance at White House

WASHINGTON - December 13 - PRESS CONFERENCE ON DECEMBER 15

WASHINGTON - December 13 - PRESS CONFERENCE ON DECEMBER 15

WHEN: 3 p.m. Wednesday, December 15, 2010

WHERE: Institute for Policy Studies , 1112 16th NW #600



CIVIL RESISTANCE ON DECEMBER 16

WHEN: 10 a.m. Thursday, December 16, 2010

WHERE: Lafayette Square Park side of the White House

WHO: Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers; Mike Ferner, Veterans For Peace National President; Leah Bolger, Veterans For Peace Vice-President and retired Navy Commander; Mike Prysner, Iraq vet and co-founder of March Forward!; Ray McGovern, retired CIA official; and many more.

WHAT: A brief rally will be followed by a nonviolent act of civil resistance at the White House. Veterans For Peace (VFP) organizers expect this to be the largest veteran-led resistance since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began.

WHY: VFP is demanding an end to the U.S. wars and occupations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and Yemen.

AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS: To schedule interviews with leaders of this protest, use the contact information above.

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/12/13

[Alloya]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOde31QYbI0&feature=player_embedded

[Zook]

Hello Alloya,


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOde31QYbI0&feature=player_embedded

Most of the protestors in the video appear to be genuine and filled with remorse. IMHO. But I caution viewers that at least one, and likely more, are plants. I'm not just talking about those with white masks on (who can tell how many of those are anarchist-agent-provocateurs?) ... I'm talking about Daniel Ellsberg. This guy was a CIA spook. By all indications, he still is ... the guy is still pushing the concept of Al Qaeda as if it were genuine, and still configuring Osama bin Laden as if that Emmanuel Goldstein is/was something bigger than a Brzezinski patsy.

Ellsberg's Pentagon Papers is the Wikileaks equivalent of his day. Released in 1971, it facilitated the postVietnam agenda of TMastardsTB after much of the damage had already been done. Just like Wikileaks today is attempting to facilitate the post-Iraq/Afghan agenda (after much of the damage had already been done) into a possible attack on Iran.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers

:typing:

ps: Be very discerning when you think you hear the call of the wild coming from the direction of the livestock.

[Luke]

Veterans for Peace White House Civil Disobedience to End War
More then 100 people arrested in a Civil Disobedience at the White House protesting the continuing wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and in Iraq. Chris Hedges extraordinarily anti-war soliloquy is inter-cut with interviews with Veterans from recent wars and with Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the top secret Pentagon Papers.

/mod hat on

PLEASE DO NOT POST NAKED LINKS, FEW WORDS ABOUT WHAT IS AT THE OTHER END ARE A MUST!

[damian]

News Black-Out in DC: Pay No Attention to Those Veterans Chained to the White House Fence
Saturday 18 December 2010
by: Dave Lindorff | This Can't Be Happening | Op-Ed

There was a black-out and a white-out Thursday and Friday as over a hundred US veterans opposed to US wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world, and their civilian supporters, chained and tied themselves to the White House fence during an early snowstorm to say enough is enough.

Washington Police arrested 135 of the protesters, in what is being called the largest mass detention in recent years. Among those arrested were Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst who used to provide the president’s daily briefings, Daniel Ellsberg, who released the government’s Pentagon Papers during the Nixon administration, and Chris Hedges, former war correspondent for the New York Times.

No major US news media reported on the demonstration or the arrests. It was blacked out of the New York Times, blacked out of the Philadelphia Inquirer, blacked out in the Los Angeles Times, blacked out of the Wall Street Journal, and even blacked out of the capital’s local daily, the Washington Post, which apparently didn't even think it was a local story worth publishing.
Read the rest of the story at http://www.truth-out.org/

So how do TPTB keep all of MSM from covering a story that screams to be covered, especially in Washington where every major news organization covers everything that happens there 24/7?

[Lost Soul]

I'm not at all surprised. However, I am surprised to learn that such major people are protesting. Kudos to them.

Mainstream media is owned by either Corporate America or by the International corporations. Take your pick. You know what they want you to know. That's why the internet is so threatening to mainstream media. People are tuning away from the media and turning toward the net for information.

[42]

No reports out of the BBC yet either...

[rgray222]

This really gives credence to the fact that the media is controlled by the Powers that Be! Such credible protesters and not a word in the press!
What a shame! It does not matter what side of the political spectrum you are on we all need to open our eyes to this!

[TigaHawk]

thanks for linking me this - helping explain to my mum why im paying so much attention to the US - as tehy do the exact same here :P

She suggested me notifying the australian media about the US blackout of the protest /sigh

will have to try harder :(