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Counter Military Recruitment Rally on August 6
by P
Saturday, Aug. 06, 2005 at 8:39 PM
Pittsburgh Organizing Group (POG) continued to escalate their counter-military recruitment campaign today as 175 protesters gathered to protest the city’s main recruiting center.
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Today’s protest was the first publicly announced action in Pittsburgh, and it followed six months of educational activities and unannounced pickets/direct actions.
In response to the planned protest, the recruitment center closed for the entirety of its normal 9am-1pm day.
The rally featured two high school students speaking on the importance of organizing inside the public school system and conscientious objection, a former enlistee and current member of POG on his short-lived experience in the marines, a member of the American Friends Service Committee, the radical cheerleaders, raging grannies, and a performer from the local slam poetry team.
The closing speaker gave an overview of the counter-recruitment movement and announced POG’s next public action -- a call to shut down recruitment in the city on August 20. Following the conclusion of the rally, half the crowd erupted in a chant of “Shut it down! No recruiters in this town!”
After the protest, participants walked the short distance to the recruiting station where Pittsburgh’s own radical marching band, The Steel Gum Bandits, led the crowd in a sing along version of Bella Ciao and another poem was read.
Police presence was mild with three bike cops and four undercover police monitoring events.
For more info on the A20 day of action...
POG A20 Call to Action:
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050804145930778
A20 Zombie Bloc Call to Action: http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050804150553669
Whitnee Stack, high school student, speaks
by P
Saturday, Aug. 06, 2005 at 8:39 PM
great shirt
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Saturday, Aug. 06, 2005 at 8:39 PM
the crowd
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Saturday, Aug. 06, 2005 at 8:39 PM
people
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Saturday, Aug. 06, 2005 at 8:39 PM
more people
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Saturday, Aug. 06, 2005 at 8:39 PM
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yet more people
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Saturday, Aug. 06, 2005 at 8:39 PM
the march 1
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Saturday, Aug. 06, 2005 at 8:39 PM
the march 2
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Saturday, Aug. 06, 2005 at 8:39 PM
| TITLE | AUTHOR | DATE |
|---|---|---|
| Poop and penis | sg | Tuesday, Nov. 01, 2005 at 1:00 PM |
| Thank You | Dan Ray | Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2005 at 7:47 PM |
| THINK | Keepin' On | Sunday, Aug. 21, 2005 at 8:28 PM |
| Very Unprofessional | Disapointed Soldier | Sunday, Aug. 21, 2005 at 8:00 PM |
| POG SUCKS! | SFC R | Sunday, Aug. 21, 2005 at 12:34 PM |
| NO CLUE! | me | Sunday, Aug. 21, 2005 at 12:24 PM |
| Whiney spoiled kids | Philip | Saturday, Aug. 20, 2005 at 4:57 PM |
| i | i | Friday, Aug. 19, 2005 at 10:41 PM |
| The Apes Were Smarter | POG kicks ass | Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2005 at 5:27 PM |
| great american's speech | a right thinking democrat | Monday, Aug. 15, 2005 at 2:41 PM |
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