Fwd: Cindy Sheehan arrested outside White House

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Sep 26, 2005 2:49 PM

[cacklinggrackle] Cindy Sheehan arrested outside White House

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[The stories today on the demonstrations have one thing in common - a

total lack of any mention of

participation or even comment from Democratic Party politicians (and

no, Jesse Jackson doesn't count).]

 

http://news./s/nm/20050926/pl_nm/bush_protest_dc

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military mother Cindy Sheehan, whose vigil outside

President George W. Bush's Texas ranch focused attention on the

anti-war movement, was arrested on

Monday in a sit-in at the White House after refusing to obey police

orders to leave.

 

Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in combat in Iraq, was among some

200 protesters who sat in

circles on the sidewalk along the White House compound's northern

edge, purposely courting arrest.

Hundreds more rallied in Lafayette Park, across Pennsylvania Avenue

from the executive mansion.