Peace activist Cindy Sheehan arrested in NY protest

[kpete]

Peace activist Sheehan arrested in NY protest 17 minutes ago



NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war activist whose son was killed in the Iraq war, was arrested with three other protesters in New York on Monday after a rally with women from Iraq.


Sheehan became a central figure in the U.S. anti-war movement last summer after she camped outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch and has been arrested at least two other times at protests.

On Monday, she had joined a delegation of women from Iraq at the rally at the United Nations, urging the United Nations to help prevent civil war in Iraq.

About 20 protesters went to the U.S. mission to the United Nations to deliver a petition with 60,000 signatures seeking an end to the war. Nobody from the mission received them so Sheehan and three other American women sat down in front of the building, refused to leave, and were arrested.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060306/ts_nm/iraq_sheehan_dc

[Cults4Bush]

1. Oh man I hope they didnt arrest the Iraqi women.

Cindy is non-stop and pulls no punches.

[Karenina]

2. Cindy puts her butt on the line again.

Scant response, little support.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Oh well, she's "too liberal" to run for office and said naughty

things about Hillary. We need to "distance ourselves" from her lest Rush Limbaugh says we aren't patriotic.

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. I'd vote for Cindy in a HEARTBEAT over DiFi.

:hi:

[petgoat]

7. That's right. We'll never win another election again and we'll become

politically impotent and historically irrelevant unless we can convince Rush that we make
just as much sense as he does. I know this because Rush told me himself. He's giving me
a lot of helpful hints about building an effective opposition. ;) Remember "changing the
system from within"? It's like that.







Gee, I wonder what happened to all those folks who were going to change the system from
within? I haven't seen or heard of any of them in about thirty years.

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. WTF? People aren't allowed to sit in front of the UN?

This shit has to stop. :grr:

[Fredda Weinberg]

8. You can't obstruct traffic

I've demonstrated several times in Daj Hammarskjold Plaza - but Votermarch had a proper permit and we scrupulously followed the terms.

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. Where does it say she was obstructing traffic? All it says is:

{b)Sheehan and three other American women sat down in front of the building

[Fredda Weinberg]

12. Yup and you can't just sit in front of buildings obstructing

pedestrian traffic. This is NYC and we have rules for demonstrations. They may be overturned one day, but right now, if a police officer orders you to move on and you refuse to comply, you will be taken into custody and charged. But I think that's what she wanted.

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. Ah. I see.

:)

[EFerrari]

6. Thank you, Cindy.

:grouphug:

[rucky]

9. Thanks, NYPD!

It would never have made the news without your help.

:hi:

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. You go Cindy

:grouphug: