U.S. anti-war activists plan protest on sidelines of Rose Parade

[struggle4progress]

... A group call itself the White Rose Coalition said its members would demonstrate in front of the TV camera platforms from 6 a.m. on New Year's Day, two hours before the famous annual holiday event begins.

Organizers plan to start demonstrating during pre-parade telecasts, according to Peter Thottam, the coalition's spokesman ...

"We are a decentralized group simply trying to get our message out through the mainstream media blockade, especially about the impeachment of the president of the United States," said Thottam, a lawyer and former political candidate for the Green Party.

The White Rose Coalition, which takes its name after a short-lived resistance movement to Nazi power in Munich in 1942, said on its website that activists will unfurl a banner and demonstrate as the Port of Los Angeles float passes by the grandstands on Colorado Boulevard at about 9 a.m ...

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/31/content_7342651.htm


Windy Weather, Stormy Protests Expected for Rose Parade
December 31, 2007, 7:02 AM PST

... Peace protest organizers said they plan to demonstrate beginning at 6 a.m. outside the Norton Simon Museum at Orange Grove and Colorado. They also plan to march behind street sweepers cleaning up after the parade for several blocks down Colorado Boulevard, then branch off for a rally at Pasadena City Hall.

Protest organizers, including members of Code Pink, a group that has dogged Sen. Hillary Clinton and other politicians they consider too hawkish on the war in Iraq, are calling themselves The White Rose Coalition after a short- lived resistance movement in Nazi Germany in 1942. Other groups expected to take part in the protest include Veterans for Peace and the Green Party.

They will call for the end of U.S. involvement in the Iraq war and for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney ...

http://ktla.trb.com/news/ktla-paradeprotests,0,7951667.story?coll=ktla-news-2

[Maat]

1. To a successful and safe exercise of 1st Amendment rights ...

may the American people fully wake up, and then stop the illegal and immoral occupation!

May there be peace on Earth!

:toast: