Albeit, Lawrence KS may not be a typical Dole/Pineapple Kansas town.
Protesters removed from Army recruiting office
They linked arms and chanted the names of Iraqi war dead
By Eric Weslander
Thursday, June 22, 2006
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/jun/22/protesters_removed_army_recruiting_office/?print
Police removed seven protesters who walked into the U.S. Army recruiting
office at 23rd and Louisiana streets and began reading off the names of
Iraqi civilians killed at Haditha.
After the reading of each name the group would chant: “Killed by the
U.S. military.”
They read the list over and over and pounded on the office door of the
recruiting station officer while he was on the telephone. Then police
arrived.
When the protesters marched in they had linked arms and red substance
smeared on their clothes. When police arrived about 1:05 p.m., the
protesters dropped to the ground face down, arms linked, and continued
reading the names from their list of Iraqi dead.
Police called for a prisoner transport vehicle, cleared a group of about
15 observers from the office and began removing one by one the seven
protesters.
Dave Strano, a Lawrence anti-war activist, was the one reading the names.
The recruiting office has been an occasional target of protests since
the Iraq War began.
