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Anyone hear about the Super Tuesday anti-war demos at Clinton & Obama headquarters in the Bay Area?
Of course you didn't. They weren't covered by any mainstream corporate media, nationally or even locally here in the San Francisco Bay Area. But a neat little open-publishing site called <a href="http://www.indybay.org/antiwar/">Indybay</a> has the scoop...
Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW), the same folks who <a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/03/21/12002.php">shut down downtown San Francisco</a> the day after the war started, were back in action by organizing protests at the Bay Area headquarters of <a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/05/18477244.php">Clinton in SF</a> and <a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/05/18477231.php">Obama in Oakland</a>.
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As a historical note, the emergency demos that were called for the day after the Iraq War started -- which turned out to be March 20th, 2003 -- involved 50,000 people in the streets, young and old, hippy and punk, business people and blue collar workers. There were marching bands and puppets. There were Black Bloc marchers. Over 2000 arrests made as police swept up hundreds at a time. The demos went on for days in San Francisco.
A great documentary was made from activists' video of the downtown shut down called <a href="http://www.videoactivism.org/empire.html">We Interrupt This Empire</a>. You can check the exciting <a href="http://stream.paranode.com/imc/portland/media/2003/07/269038.mov">trailer here</a>.
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