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3/16 Washington D.C: Religious protest marches from Cathedral to White House, hundreds of arrests |
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Written by D.C. Indymedia Center
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Sunday, 18 March 2007 |
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Late evening on Friday, March 16, over 3,000 people gathered in Washington Cathedral for a service, and then marched  down Mass Ave towards the White House, looking like a sea of fireflies with electric "candles' held high. On arrival at the White House, hundreds were arrested an a planned civil disobediance.
The number of CD participants was so high that CD participants had to be organized by a system of numbers! The cops had stated they could only handle 100 at a time, and the religious peace focussed organizers agreed to that request.
Arrests finally totalled 222 according to the AP wire service reports.
This kind of protest coming from the Cathedral has not been seen in DC since 1991, on the Sunday prior to the start of the First persian Gulf War! on that night, the cathedral was packed too, just like on March 16 this year. That night, anohter candlelight procession left the Cathedral and went to the White House-at that time, closing a normally-open to traffic Penn Ave, which protestors closed almost every night for the first two weeks of that war.
Maybe we will finally start to see people banging drums in Lafayette park every night as well, like we did in Gulf War I to Daddy Bush's everlasting complaint?
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