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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-20-08 10:51 PM
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Hundreds of pro-war bikers invading berkeley tomorrow (saturday)
At the Downtown Berkeley Marine Recruiting Station
64 Shattuck Square (Shattuck and University)
9AM-2PM

Non-Violent Rally Counter-Demonstration

On March 22, hundreds of right wing, pro-war bikers invaded Berkeley to rally in front of the Marine recruiting station, waving signs calling for locking up unpatriotic “traitors” and “waterboard the liberals.” On June 21, they are coming back with their “call to arms” to “support the troops” spreading thru veterans groups, motorcycle clubs, the Boy Scouts, and pro-war media. The eyes of the country were on our anti-war resistance this Spring, and that’s what the right wingers want to attack. Their goal is to intimidate the people of Berkeley, including the City Council, who despite capitulating on their original resolution calling the recruiters “unwelcome and unwanted intruders,” still haven’t apologized to the Marines. Clearly, Berkeley’s outpouring of resistance to recruiters this past Spring still poses a threat to the warmongers’ plans – our anti-war resistance is something they want to snuff out before it spreads ...

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/20/18509573.php
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-20-08 10:55 PM
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1. Since the recruiting office is still open these "pro war bikers"
can enlist and go to fucking Iraq and fight in the war that they're so pro.

I can't figure out why in the hell the Marines would even want an office in Berkeley anyway.
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mitchtv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-20-08 10:58 PM
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2. I wish everyone would turn their backs on such procedings
as one would to an invader.
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