Do you feel protests could become less peacefull?

My own decision-allergic Congressman, who I will out here in a national venue, David Price, is now blathering about "exit strategy" (a think tank term if ever there was one) to avoid the issue of defunding the war. But he is on the defensive, as he was when 400 of us encamped in front of his office - with others inside, refusing to leave - to (successfully) pressure him to vote against the 2002 authorization for war (which he now proudly slaps on his website's front page. (Of course, he has voted every time since then to re-fund the war... Price is deep-down DLC).

My point? We did turn him on a vote, and it was civil disobedience - a 26-hour sit-in at his Chapel Hill office in October 2002 - that did the trick.

There is something about being polite when the blood is running down the gutters that should strike us all as obscene... sinful even.

Who qualifies for Congressional office occupations? Anyone and everyone who still votes money for the war. Period. Take great big signs along that explain a very simple thing: An exit is a command, not a strategy. And take vets and military family members with you. Call us, and we'll go there so when the police show up to trespass us, you can videotape vets and military families being dragged out of Congressional offices in flex-cuffs. It's an irresistable image.