Direct Actions In Downtown Sf
03/19/2008 7:30 - the lunch hour
McKesson Building, next to Montgomery BART station, , San Francisco, CA US
Sponsored by Iraq Moratorium - SF
On March 19, the Iraq Moratorium Committee - San Francisco will coordinate protest activities outside the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein outside the Montgomery BART station throughout the morning hours starting at 7:30 am. This is part of the national protest led by United for Peace and Justice and locally against warmakers by Direct Action to Stop the War.
We will read the names of the more than 600,000 Iraqis and 4,000 Americans killed in the senseless war as we leaflet commuters during the morning. We invite everyone to join us in a nonviolent spirit as we set a solemn tone. Bring flowers. Poets and musicians are encouraged to blend their work with the reading of the names. Join us for part or all of the morning and into the afternoon. At some point during the lunch hour, numbers of us will take nonviolent direct action and invite you to join us.
Despite Sen. Feinstein's words of criticism against the war in Iraq, she has consistently voted to fund the war. She has an additional level of implication: Although the spokesman for investment banker Richard Blum (Sen. Dianne Feinstein's husband) insists "he's not a billionaire. " (San Francisco Chronicle, 5/11/03), he may be now after five years of the occupation of Iraq. As revealed by journalist Peter Byrne of the North Bay Bohemian on 1/24/07, Sen. Feinstein was the chairperson and ranking member of the Military Construction Appropriations (MILCON) subcommittee from 2001 through the end of 2005, and "supervised the appropriation of billions of dollars a year for specific military construction projects. Two defense contractors whose interests were largely controlled by her husband, financier Richard C. Blum, benefited from decisions made by Feinstein as leader of this powerful committee...
The entire article is available here.
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Reports, Updates, Comments
** Police storm peaceful protest in San Francisco on March 19. Eyewitnesses reported seeing several young people hit in the stomach or beaten with batons. Sixty people were arrested in a peaceful die-in outside the office of Sen. Diane Feinstein, including Daniel and Patricia Ellsberg and Iraq Moratorium organizer Bill Simpich. More information here.