(4 of 4) Protesters surged onto the Capitol's south lawn and up the steps where they were met by a police line. (For high bandwidth, go to tompkinsagainstwarDOTorg.) There, Iraq veterans conducted a solemn ceremony to memorialize the U.S. soldiers and Iraqis killed in the war. Over 5,000 people then laid down in a symbolic "die-in" -- one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in recent years. One hundred ninety-seven people, including dozens of veterans and activists, were arrested when they tried to deliver their anti-war message to Congress and were stopped by the police. Among the arrested were Adam Kokesh, Liam Madden, Jeff Millard, and Garrett Reppenhagen of Iraq Veterans Against the War; Brian Becker, National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism); Ann Wright, former U.S. Army Colonel; Michael Prysner, Iraq war veteran and ANSWER activist in Florida; union president Gloria La Riva; and Eugene Puryear, Howard University student and National Coordinator of Youth & Student ANSWER. Police pepper-sprayed demonstrators without provocation.

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(3 of 4) Protesters surged onto the Capitol's south lawn and up the steps where they were met by a police line. (For high bandwidth, go to tompkinsagainstwarDOTorg.)There, Iraq veterans conducted a solemn ceremony to memorialize the U.S. soldiers and Iraqis killed in the war. Over 5,000 people then laid down in a symbolic "die-in" -- one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in recent years. One hundred ninety-seven people, including dozens of veterans and activists, were arrested when they tried to deliver their anti-war message to Congress and were stopped by the police. Among the arrested were Adam Kokesh, Liam Madden, Jeff Millard, and Garrett Reppenhagen of Iraq Veterans Against the War; Brian Becker, National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism); Ann Wright, former U.S. Army Colonel; Michael Prysner, Iraq war veteran and ANSWER activist in Florida; union president Gloria La Riva; and Eugene Puryear, Howard University student and National Coordinator of Youth & Student ANSWER. Police pepper-sprayed demonstrators without provocation.

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(2 of 4) Protesters surged onto the Capitol's south lawn and up the steps where they were met by a police line. (For high bandwidth, go to tompkinsagainstwarDOTorg.) There, Iraq veterans conducted a solemn ceremony to memorialize the U.S. soldiers and Iraqis killed in the war. Over 5,000 people then laid down in a symbolic "die-in" -- one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in recent years. One hundred ninety-seven people, including dozens of veterans and activists, were arrested when they tried to deliver their anti-war message to Congress and were stopped by the police. Among the arrested were Adam Kokesh, Liam Madden, Jeff Millard, and Garrett Reppenhagen of Iraq Veterans Against the War; Brian Becker, National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism); Ann Wright, former U.S. Army Colonel; Michael Prysner, Iraq war veteran and ANSWER activist in Florida; union president Gloria La Riva; and Eugene Puryear, Howard University student and National Coordinator of Youth & Student ANSWER. Police pepper-sprayed demonstrators without provocation.

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(1 of 4) Protesters surged onto the Capitol's south lawn and up the steps where they were met by a police line. (For high bandwidth, go to tompkinsagainstwarDOTorg.) There, Iraq veterans conducted a solemn ceremony to memorialize the U.S. soldiers and Iraqis killed in the war. Over 5,000 people then laid down in a symbolic "die-in" -- one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in recent years. One hundred ninety-seven people, including dozens of veterans and activists, were arrested when they tried to deliver their anti-war message to Congress and were stopped by the police. Among the arrested were Adam Kokesh, Liam Madden, Jeff Millard, and Garrett Reppenhagen of Iraq Veterans Against the War; Brian Becker, National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism); Ann Wright, former U.S. Army Colonel; Michael Prysner, Iraq war veteran and ANSWER activist in Florida; union president Gloria La Riva; and Eugene Puryear, Howard University student and National Coordinator of Youth & Student ANSWER. Police pepper-sprayed demonstrators without provocation.

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20/04/07- Bil'in, Palestine: Puerto Rican activist Tito Kayak scales a 9 story Israeli surveillance tower and unfurls the Palestinian flag. The tower, apart of the apartheid fence, has annexed 60% of the land of the village of Bil'in. In 2000, he climbed the Statue of Liberty in New York unfurling the Puerto Rican & Vieques flags--to bring attention to the now ended U.S. Navy's bombing & occupation of the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. He came to Bil'in with a delegation from Puerto Rico & Ithaca for the Second Annual Conference on Non-Violent Popular Resistance. The action occurred during the weekly demonstration against the wall in Bil'in, simultaneous with a press conference with Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead McGuire of N. Ireland who was shot with a rubber bullet that day. The footage was provided by Palestinian documentary film maker EmadBornat@yahoo.com ('Bil'in Against the Wall').

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During the open mic at the conclusion of an Immigrant Rights Rally in Ithaca, NY on May Day 2007, Eronmonsele Elens-Eigbokhan, a student from Nigeria, gives an impassioned and inspired speech, invoking the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a new context that is both fiery and optimistic. No human is illegal.

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