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2-3-2008 8:40 PM212 views
papananook says:
The Marines, meanwhile, were not ready to back down.

“It’s just another protest,” said Marine Corps Capt. Richard Lund, head of the recruiting office.

As he spoke in the early afternoon, with the protesters still chained to his door, a small band of demonstrators on the sidewalk shouted at passing cars and students at Shattuck Square: “Marines out of Berkeley! Marines out of Iraq!”

Heated words were exchanged whenever people tried to enter or leave the office, but the protest was peaceful.

“You guys are just cannon fodder!” the chained protesters shouted at three teenage boys who walked past the office and said they wanted to go inside. “They want to train you to kill babies!”

The teenagers turned around and left.
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I love this...right in my old stomping gronds where I was first arrested at the Mass Protest in '68 and politicized by the treatment of the protesters in Contra Costa County Jail where they took all 500+ of us and kept us laying on the g
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