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Olympia Port Militarization Resistance Playing Red Rover With Trucks

The protests being staged at the port down in Olympia by the Port Militarization Resistance seem like a huge operation when you read the papers:

Police wearing riot gear fired pepper spray projectiles into a crowd of more than 150 protesters Tuesday night at the Port of Olympia, and several military convoys eventually moved out.

Olympia police spokesman Dick Machlan said 43 people were arrested and then released while prosecutors decide whether to charge them.

A window in a police cruiser was broken by several rocks and another rock hit an officer in the knee, police Lt. James Costa said.

Demonstrators also poured cement over railroad tracks at the port but were unsuccessful in halting trains. Port personnel removed the cement and no arrests were made for that part of the protest, which was coordinated by Olympia Port Militarization Resistance, Costa said.

But seem decidedly different when you watch the YouTube:

There's more here, here and here.

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  • Lake City Sniper

    wow...protesting the war. Hasn't AIPAC made that a crime?

    The war- for that pipeline from Kirkuk to Israel....the IMI hasn't spent billions of US taxpayers money outfitting Turkey's military for nothing!

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