Story and photos are at Boston Indymedia, and apparently nowhere else. If we’d protested Bush that day only miles away on the road and not inside the event, nobody would have heard about our protest either.
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By David Swanson
Charlottesville Daily Progress columnist Bryan McKenzie reported on our recent protest of Bush at Monticello that we had made our point of diminishing a citizen naturalization ceremony? We did? McKenzie had plenty of communication from protesters before and after the event, all of which made perfectly clear that we wanted to NOT do that, that we wanted in fact to counter Bush’s diminishment of the day and to communicate to the world that Americans oppose our president’s
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By Bryan McKenzie, Charlottesville Daily Progress
It was an exciting weekend of patriotic fervor with a presidential appearance, minting of new citizens, protests and other fireworks.
The events and surrounding media hoopla, however, begged questions of what patriotism is and why it’s useful, so we sought answers in many different places. Here’s what we found: READ THE REST AND POST YOUR COMMENT.
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By David Swanson
I’ll be uploading video and photos, so watch http://afterdowningstreet.org
When Bush opened his mouth to speak I shouted “Defend the Constitution, Impeach Bush!” I repeated that several times, as people nearby knocked me over, cops handcuffed me, people gave me smiles and thumbs up signs. They threw me out and a couple of more defenders of our Constitution behind me, and then a few more, and then a few more. The handcuffed citizens who’d done their duty kept
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The full remarks as provided by the White House:
THE PRESIDENT: Distinguished guests, fellow citizens, and future citizens: the grounds of this house, which saw so many changes during President Thomas Jefferson’s lifetime provide an ideal setting to reflect on the history of our nation. We have progressed so far in so many ways since that day on which the Declaration of Independence was signed, in that distant time when slaves inhabited this place.
We have also progressed in dramatic ways
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A growing coalition of groups and individuals plans to protest President George W. Bush’s Fourth of July visit to Charlottesville on Friday. Participating organizations include the Augusta Center for Peace and Justice, CODE PINK Women for Peace both National and Charlottesville, AfterDowningStreet, Democrats.com, and Charlottesville MoveOn.org. Many other people expected to participate are not members of any of these groups.
The protest will take place at Route 20, outside and a ways removed
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A growing coalition of groups and individuals plans to protest President George W. Bush’s Fourth of July visit to Charlottesville on Friday. Participating organizations include RVA for Peace, the Augusta Center for Peace and Justice, CODE PINK Women for Peace both National and Charlottesville, AfterDowningStreet, Democrats.com, and Charlottesville MoveOn.org. Many other people expected to participate are not members of any of these groups.
The protest will take place at Route 20, outside
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That’s $4,681 per household, $1,721 per person, $341.4 million per day.
Taxpayers in Charlottesville, Virginia will pay $75.1 million for total Iraq war spending approved to date. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:
490 Affordable Housing Units
OR
1,094 Elementary School Teachers for One Year
OR
10,478 Head Start Places for Children for One Year
OR
9,350 Scholarships for University Students for One Year
OR
21,036 People with Health Care for One Year
These
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The coalition of groups and individuals planning to protest President George W. Bush’s Fourth of July visit to Charlottesville on Friday continues to grow. Participating organizations include RVA4Peace, the Augusta Center for Peace and Justice, CODEPINK Women for Peace both National and Charlottesville, AfterDowningStreet, Democrats.com, and Charlottesville MoveOn.org. Many other people expected to participate are not members of any of these groups.
The protest will take place at Route
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