COMMUNITY
Anti-war protesters cross the Ferry Street Bridge early Tuesday morning en
route to the Eugene Federal Building.
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formation officer for Kl’l). agreed.
"We've been up-front with tin- po
lice," kjellberg said. "There's been <i
lot of honesty on both sides. They no
longer see us as just protesters, but peo
ple who don't want a war."
"They (were) very peaceful." Hanson
said "This was a coordinated effort be
tween the protesters and the police. We
knew coming in we wen* going to have
to make some arrests We anticipated it
was going to be non-violent, and it
V
(was)."
Hanson said a US Forest Service ad
ministrator. Arlie Anderson, made the
official arrests because the building is
federal property and out of Fl’IVs juris
diction She estimated -tr> K*’l) officers
were present at tile Federal building,
not only to assist Anderson in making
die arrests, but also for crowd control
One of the protesters who participated
in the sit-in, Joseph Cormier, said there
was "no better place" than the Federal
building to show the government how
participants in the rally felt
Police Mace protestors
SAN TRANCISCO (AIM Police in
riot gear pulled protesters trom ,i hu
man chain outside a federal off it e
building and arrested more than -KM)
people Tuesday in one of the largest
ol many anti war protests around the
nation
At one point San Pram isi o police
used Mace and riot Iwtons to push
demonstrators out of a downtown in
terser tion
flsewhere. anti war protesters
gathered at the While House, the
United Nations oil college campuses
and at other federal buildings in a
last ditch effort to persuade ('resident
Hush not to attai k Iraq
"I think there should lie millions
of people here Nobody should sit
home and say its ()h to go to war.'
said (.'hut k Nevin, one of the demon
strators in San I-ram isco
The demonstration began around n
a m when people began gathering
around the 20-story federal Ituiltl
ing Organizers put the crowd at
10.000 at its peak, but journalists es
timated the attendance at about
1.000
The protesters kept workers from
entering the building They < arried
signs saving "Suppose Hro< coli was
Kuwait’s 1-argesl Kxport" and "No
Mlood for Oil " forty of them zipped
themselves in body bags in front of
the building
The protesters relinquished the
building by early afternoon, and
<i(kint 2.000 people began a spontane
ous march through the city
Protesters resisted arrest at the
main entrance by clinging fiercely to
one another as federal police pulled
thrm apart am! restrained their hands
m plastu: cuffs Remaining protesters
sat on tlie portico singing |ohn l.en
lion's "Cove I’eace A Cham e” as po
In e continued to in.ike arrests
federal authorities arrested 407
people, most of whom were charged
with tiloi king an entrance said |o
sepli l.oer/el < hie! operations officer
lor the federal I’rotei live Service
San I rani isi o polii e arrested about
fid people, inr hiding break awa\ pro
testers who him kud a bllSV intersei
lion a him k from the Federal Ituild
mg ( it\ polii e used Mai e and i hilts
to move the protesters out of the in
terser lion
Several hours later, about !!>() pro
testers walked up ramps onto the Sail
Francisco Oakland l!a\ bridge and
him ked (ire rush hour t raff it la-fore
about fit) surrendered for arrest and
the crowd begun breaking up. said
(.aliforma llighwav I’atrol spokes
man Don Cuppa
In New York City, more than 5.000
people gathered outside the United
Nations for a demonstration spon
sored by the African American Coali
lion Against U S Intervention. At
least It) protesters were arrested for
blocking traffic and disorderly con
dor t. polii e said
burlier, a small group of anti war
demonstrators tried to enter the Kiv
ersnle Research Center, a defense
contractor, and lil were arrested for
trespassing, police said
In Itoston. three windows were
broken at the John !■' Kennedy Feiler
al building during an anti-war dem
onstration. and one protester was ar
resteil
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