hundreds of coffins placed in front of White House.....(PHOTOS)

[diamond14]

this is a couple days old, but a very worthwhile protest IN FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE...added here because I am CERTAIN that the mainstream media didn't cover this at all....notice how many military organizations AND CATHOLICS are supporting this protest....
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http://dc.indymedia.org/feature/display/106176/index.php

Today <2004-10-02> several hundred (perhaps a couple thousand in attendence by the end) people marched from Arlington National Cemetery to The Ellipse, south of the White House. They carried many of the hundreds of cardboard coffins (the rest laid out on The Ellipse by volunteers ahead of the march) from the cemetery, across the Memorial Bridge, past the Lincoln memorial and down Constitution Avenue.

The coffins represent the American military deaths, in excess of 1,000 ( http://cryptome.org/mil-dead-iqw.htm, includes 56 afghan casualties, but Iraq sum still well exceed 1k and climbs ) in the Iraq war alone; without including Afghanistan, mercenaries, contractors, and those unaffiliated with the occupation but killed in war-zones with American involvement. The minority of flag-draped coffins represents the proportion of American military dead to all the other losses -- Iraqi, non-military, other military, etc, in Iraq.


The event was coordinated by several groups including the Iraq Pledge of Resistance, Peace Now, Catholic Worker groups, Military Families Speak Out, Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans for Peace. The speakers included Gordon Clark (the originator of the Iraq Pledge), Phyllis Bennis (of the Institute for Policy Studies), and Arun Ghandi, the grandson of Mahatma Ghandi.

[zbdent]

1. First I've heard of it

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[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. that was the Rally Against the Iraq War..last Saturday..Micheal Berg and

Lila Lipski(ms) from Ferhenhieght 911 were speakers and many were arrested whenb they tried to deliver a letter to the white house for bush*

[merh]

3. 1st I have heard of this! Did the media miss this?

:shrug:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

4. C-Span televised the entire rally

[merh]

6. I was out all day Saturday.

Don't recall seeing any coverage by mainstream media or cable "news".

Thanks for the links -

[diamond14]

5. link to video and more photos from award-winning Mike Flugennock

the video is the .rm link at the end of post...(real media)..13 minutes...
http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/106202


for bush*


and of course, a few vile reTHUGlicans were there.... cursing nuns and priests....in the bush* 'compassionate conservatives' little minds... carrying coffins of OUR dead soldiers IN PUBLIC is disrespectful....and repeating mcCarthyism, the reTHUGlicans LOVE to scream TRAITOR at anyone who disagrees with bush* slaughter and war crimes in Iraq and Afganistan....

[gratuitous]

7. "You dishonor our dead"

By mentioning their deaths!

I've heard that you can't register at Free Republic without a doctor's certification that you've had a lobotomy. Is that true? Because I've heard some people are saying that.

[gratuitous]

8. Genuine gratuitous brand

Bump.