This is great. Another civil disobedience action in solidarity with the bombed people in Gaza. Folks who were appalled when Senator Dianne Feinstein voted to send $225 million to Israel in the middle of a massacre occupied her Los Angeles offices yesterday to protest. Four people were arrested. They’re still in jail.
The action was co-organized by a splendid coalition: Jewish Voice for Peace, American Muslims for Palestine, with support from Code Pink and Friends of Sabeel, North America.
I am told that these people are subject to the maximum bail figure: $5,000, for a misdemeanor: unlawful assembly/failure to disperse. Here are photos and videos:
Now here are some videos. First, here Feinstein’s state manager, Trevor Daley, orders folks to leave the office. Some say they ain’t going anywhere.
Here the interfaith leaders are arrested and put on the bus:
We’ll keep you posted as we learn more from this great action. Some Americans are not going to take human rights abuses sitting down.
So there was also action @- Senator Boxer’s office, and I’m guessing no arrests there.
These activists were so threatening that their behavior deserved arrest/not. It makes the Senator look even worse. Why are they so afraid of facing real, concerned and peaceful people?
estee in the video as she was being arrested “if you could send this to mondoweiss” ;)
jvp also send out an alert while this was going on for everyone to call and tweet boxer and feinstein. i did!
RE: “Four arrested after occupying Senator Feinstein’s LA office to protest military aid”
MY ATTEMPT AT REPARTEE: Can’t we all just get along? These disruptive dissidents need to learn to BEHAVE and mind their Ps and Qs instead of challenging AUTHORITY! When the plebes of ancient Rome began to go astray instead of giving their unabashed, enthusiastic devotion to their emperor Caligula (possibly a bit eccentric, but certainly not nearly so much as the dilettantish firebug Nero), the greatest empire the world has ever known went straight to hell in a handbasket*!
* OSCAR WILDE’S GRAND TOUR OF AMERICA (1882):
SOURCE – http://www.tullamoredew.com/blog/wilde-usa
■ Company of Thieves: Oscar Wilde (Live From City Winery) [VIDEO, 05:33] – http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=uAYfUReasvQ