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Posted on 10/07/2001 12:20:03 PM PDT by LarryLied

5 pm downtown. be there.

demos are planed all over the country at 5 pm. Meet in downtown San Francisco.

And remember your history:

At the beginning of the 1990s, the Gulf War - or more appropriately the U.S. war against Iraq - was yet another moment in which opposition was expressed in acts of individual, small group, and mass civil disobedience.

In the fall of 1990, a small group of 14 anti-Gulf War activists, mostly students from U.C. Berkeley and San Francisco State, occupied and held for several hours an Army Recruiting Center in San Francisco before being arrested.

Also that fall, an adhoc coalition opposed to the war, called the Bay Area Direct Action Network, began to strategize about different ways to block building entranceways and highways. When the United States started to drop its "smart bombs" on Baghdad tens of thousands of people poured into the streets of San Francisco.

One notable action at this time was the occupation and blockage of the Bay Bridge that connects San Francisco to Oakland and Berkeley.

Following a physical blockade that delayed the opening of the U.S. Federal Building in San Francisco, thousands of protesters started to march downtown toward the financial district.

At the last minute, these protesters turned, took another route, and easily pushed pass the dozen or so Highway Patrol attempting to protect the bridge. This throng of people made it nearly all the way to Treasure Island, the mid-way point on the bridge, before being met with a massive show of force by the Oakland Police Department.

While unreported by the mainstream media, similar acts of blocking government buildings and major highways occurred all up and down the west coast.

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