[Announce] Fw: FIERCE STAND-OFF BUT NO ARRESTS AT CLINTON SODAPOP OCCUPATION IN DES MOINES

[Robert Waldrop]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Cordaro" <frank.cordaro at gmail.com>
> From:  Mona Shaw<MonaShaw at aol.com>
> Date: Jan 3, 2008
>
> More information about SODaPOP is available at 
> the following websites.
>
> www.vcnv.org or  www.desmoinescatholicworker.org
>
>
> CLINTON OCCUPATION INCLUDES FIERCE STAND-OFF BUT 
> NO ARRESTS
>
>
> Photos of this action taken by Mauro Heck may be 
> viewed and down-loaded at:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/monashaw/sets/72157603627460627/show
>
>
>
> Twenty-five members of SODaPOP appeared at Sen. 
> Hillary Clinton's
> Campaign Headquarters this afternoon with the 
> intention of occupying
> that office until the senator agreed to pledge 
> to bring an immediate
> end to the war in Iraq and to veto further 
> funding of that war if she
> is elected president.
>
>
>
> When Clinton staff saw SODaPOP members 
> approaching their office, the
> door to the building was locked and entrance was 
> barred to all SODaPOP
> members as well as press who had arrived to 
> cover the occupation.
>
>
>
> SODaPOP then stood in front of the entrances 
> holding banners that read
> "End the War in Iraq" and "Stop War Funding" and 
> handed out flyers
> outlining their reasons for being there.  After 
> several hours and when
> the headquarters were closing to leave for 
> precinct caucuses, SODaPOP
> members decided to leave.  No arrests were made.
>
>
> This concluded the three-day campaign in Iowa. 
> A total of 15 arrests
> were made in the campaign that also included 
> occupations at the
> Huckabee, Romney, and Obama campaign 
> headquarters in the Des Moines
> metro area.  SODaPOP (Seasons of Discontent: a 
> Presidential Occupation
> Project) is a project that intends to insert the 
> peace movement into
> the U.S. presidential campaigns.  It is 
> coordinated by Voices for
> Creative Nonviolence, the Iowa Occupation 
> Project and hosted in Des
> Moines by the Des Moines Catholic Worker 
> Community.
>
>
>
> In a news release issued earlier by the Des 
> Moines Catholic Worker,
> Kelly, co-director of VCNV, was quoted as 
> saying, "We're very
> respectful of the Iowa caucus process and the 
> long history behind it
> but we feel quite strongly that the issues of 
> this war must be
> inserted into the process of narrowing down the 
> candidates for the
> presidential election."
>
>
> CONTACT:
> Mona Shaw
> SODaPOP
> Iowa Occupation Project
> Des Moines Catholic Worker
> Des Moines, IA
> 319-621-4646
> monashaw at aol.com
>