Die-In at the Rep. Con.
I witnessed one of these die-ins at a talk by Douglas Daft of Coca-Cola last year at Yale. It was quite dramatic -- even though Daft went on unfazed. From the NYT's Christine Hauser:
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Protesters heeded calls for widespread, nonviolent civil disobedience in Manhattan today against Bush administration policies, with some antiwar demonstrators prepared to symbolically die as near as possible to the site of the Republican National Convention.
"We are going to be out there dressed in white, to stand out and be dramatic," said Ed Hedemann, an organizer of the War Resisters League, which describes itself as a secular, pacifist organization. "Probably by the end of our incarceration we will be grubby."
The league is one of several groups in the coalition making today, the second day of the convention at Madison Square Garden, one for mass but nonviolent civil disobedience. Known as A31, for August 31, the coalition scheduled a day of activities, including a subway action to represent those lost in "imperialist wars."
Mr. Hedemann said his group would wear white, an usual color for New York City, he admitted jokingly, where "there is a tendency to favor black."
But white was meant to convey mourning, and the more than 100 protesters he expected to join the demonstration would first gather at Ground Zero before heading north to Madison Square Garden.
While they would like to take their mass "die-in" to the convention floor, Mr. Hedemann had no illusions that his group would be able to breach the stringent security measures and the police presence.
So they will get as close as possible.
"At that point we will lie down on the street as if we had died from a bomb blast to symbolically represent people who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan," Mr. Hedemann said.
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Wise man Bill O'Reilly claims these types of protests will hurt Kerry. Now think about this means: either the protesters are bumbling Kerry supporters who have no concept of "negative publicity" -- or THEY'RE NOT REALLY KERRY SUPPORTERS, SO NOBODY SHOULD HOLD THEIR ACTIONS AGAINST KERRY. Right?
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Protesters heeded calls for widespread, nonviolent civil disobedience in Manhattan today against Bush administration policies, with some antiwar demonstrators prepared to symbolically die as near as possible to the site of the Republican National Convention.
"We are going to be out there dressed in white, to stand out and be dramatic," said Ed Hedemann, an organizer of the War Resisters League, which describes itself as a secular, pacifist organization. "Probably by the end of our incarceration we will be grubby."
The league is one of several groups in the coalition making today, the second day of the convention at Madison Square Garden, one for mass but nonviolent civil disobedience. Known as A31, for August 31, the coalition scheduled a day of activities, including a subway action to represent those lost in "imperialist wars."
Mr. Hedemann said his group would wear white, an usual color for New York City, he admitted jokingly, where "there is a tendency to favor black."
But white was meant to convey mourning, and the more than 100 protesters he expected to join the demonstration would first gather at Ground Zero before heading north to Madison Square Garden.
While they would like to take their mass "die-in" to the convention floor, Mr. Hedemann had no illusions that his group would be able to breach the stringent security measures and the police presence.
So they will get as close as possible.
"At that point we will lie down on the street as if we had died from a bomb blast to symbolically represent people who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan," Mr. Hedemann said.
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Wise man Bill O'Reilly claims these types of protests will hurt Kerry. Now think about this means: either the protesters are bumbling Kerry supporters who have no concept of "negative publicity" -- or THEY'RE NOT REALLY KERRY SUPPORTERS, SO NOBODY SHOULD HOLD THEIR ACTIONS AGAINST KERRY. Right?
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