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School of the Americas Watch supporters marched to the Pentagon Parade Grounds Monday morning where they planted crosses in the ground while other supporters shut down seven of eight turnstiles spilling their own blood inside the Pentagon.
"We were able to kneel in or behind
the blood," said Briana Binkerd-Dale
of the SOA Watch National Office, DC,
"for about 15 minutes, speaking out
to the steady stream of Pentagon workers
on their way inside. Another member of
our [affinity] group leafletted."
She said that all were arrested and
processed but two were not charged
because their arresting officers failed
to make an arrest report.
Other SOA Watch supporters blockaded
two other entrances by linking arms and
staging a mock die-in at the "Tunnel
Entrance" using water-soluble red soy
ink. Of the dozens risking arrest four
were charged with "Creating a hazardous
condition."
Monday afternoon, six Oberlin students
disrupted the opening session of a Sikorsky
Corporation suppliers conference by locking
their arms together inside pipes in the
conference room and refusing to leave.
They were also arrested. Sikorsky manufactures
Blackhawk helicopters which are used by the
Colombian army to fight the civil war.
Jeff Moebus will begin a 40 day fast in
front of the Fort Benning Gate tomorrow,
April 6.
Contact SOAW for more information.
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