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AGENDA21 Donating Member (862 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 01:37 PM
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USA: 5 congressmembers arrested - and it’s not for corruption
Reps. Tom Lantos (D-San Mateo), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Houston), Jim McGovern (D-Worcester, Mass.), Jim Moran (D-Virginia) and John Olver (D-Massachusetts) were arrested, as the San Francisco Chronicle put it, “when they blocked the front entrance at the Embassy of Sudan in Washington, D.C. Their protest and civil disobedience was designed to embarrass the military dictatorship’s ongoing genocide of its non-Arab citizens.”

Six other activists were also arrested. The congressmembers were released after about 45 minutes.

Lantos, 78, is, according to the Chronicle, the only Holocaust survivor to ever serve in Congress. The Bush administration called the atrocities in the Sudan a genocide in 2004.

George Clooney, years after it would have mattered, has also weighed in recently.

http://polstate.com/?p=4603
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 01:47 PM
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1. Hell Yes !!!!!! Leadership by example !
I respect people who get arrested for a good cause !!!!

:patriot::patriot::patriot::patriot::patriot::patriot::patriot::patriot:
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 02:32 PM
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2. Saw that and figured my daughter's friend from Sudan has been busy
in D.C. again. :D He was there last spring, interning with Kolbe fo AZ and he managed to talk a lot of Congressmen into having interesting times outside that embassy!

John, if you're checking DU today: :hi: from S. Fox's sister in Montana!
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