reveal the anti-war message to the cameras
and those in the crowd who could see us.”
But security personnel at the event were
checking people who appeared to be wearing
two layers of clothing, and asking them to re-
move the outer layer to check for “unaccept-
able messages.”
Chabarek unbuttoned his shirt, displaying
the message, “9/11 Families Against the
War.” A security supervisor looked at the
shirt and said, “No! No way are you coming
in. … Leave! Now! Or we’ll have you ar-
rested for trespassing. This is a private event
and we decide who gets in.” Melia’s message
was “Stop Killing People.”
“Security had to walk us out along the line
of people queued up behind us,” says
Chabarek, “2,000 to 3,000 enthusiastic Bush
supporters I would guess, and all of them
were able to easily read what was written on
our clothes.”
Later the two went to nearby Jacksonville
and joined the protesters who moved down-
town to gather on the sidewalks on both sides
of the street. “People were waiting for the
presidential motorcade to return from
Jackson County Fairgrounds after it got dark,
when the police dressed in riot gear ap-
peared,” says Chabarek. “They lined them-
selves across the street, including the side-
walks, and started making announcements
over a public address system. It was impossi-
ble to hear what they were saying clearly and
people in the crowd were confused. They
started advancing slowly on the crowd, stop-
ping every three or four paces and repeating
the announcements…. At some point, proba-
bly about 5 to 7 minutes after they first ap-
peared, the police opened fire with pepper
ball guns. The crowd was terrified by the
sound of the blasts, which came in rapid suc-
cession, a total of perhaps 15-20 rounds fired.
The first three rounds hit an elderly man who
was standing about 10 feet from the police
with his back turned toward them. The force
of the impact knocked him down, and as he
struggled to get up, a young man in the crowd
jumped in between the man and the police,
with his back turned to the police, trying to
shield the fallen man. The younger man was
then hit at very close range (six feet or less I
would estimate) with most or all of the other
dozen or so rounds of pepper balls; he re-
ported numerous bruises from the attack.
“Carol and I were close to the action and
witnessed what happened, and we both in-
haled a good dose of the pepper spray. An el-
derly woman was standing next to Carol and
BY PAUL NEEVEL
CHRISTINA SALTER & CHRIS PECK
“Pies for Social Change … Step Up to the
Plate!” Thus read the headline on the flier
that Christina Salter and Chris Peck brought
to their respective workplaces early last
month. It continued, “We’re baking back
America one pie at a time. For a $25 (or more)
donation to Moveon.org, the DNC, or United
for Peace and Justice, we will deliver a home-
made, freshly baked pie to your home or
office.” A native New Yorker, Salter moved
west in 1985 to study counseling at the UO.
She met Peck in ’88 when both worked at
Harry’s Mother, a youth shelter in his home-
town of Portland. Since ’92, the couple has
lived in Eugene, where she is now a counselor
at LCC, and he works with youth and families
through Lane County’s Developmental
Disabilities Services. They brainstormed their
pie project in response to a “fun-raising” challenge from Moveon.org. “Christina’s pie
crust is great,” says Peck, who peeled and cut apples and peaches. “I rolled the dough
out!” adds 3-year-old Caleb. Over three weeks, the family baked 15 pies. “It was a nice
opportunity to connect with people,” Peck reports. “We raised more than we could
have come up with personally.”
also inhaled a big dose. People were choking
and wheezing from the gas.
“The crowd was angrily expressing their
outrage. Carol and I were carrying our
portable amplifier, so we turned it on quite
loud and started chanting ‘This is what
democracy looks like.’ This seemed to have
the effect of focusing the crowd and giving
the police pause at what they were doing.”
A second group of riot police moved in to
encircle a group of about 25 protesters in one
area against a wall, and also penned in a sec-
ond group across the street from the first
group. No one was arrested, but the police did
not allow anyone in the groups to leave.
Chabarek and Melia avoided the round-
ups and were interviewed at the scene by a
crew from NBC News, including reporter
Shane Bishop. “Off camera, he later told us
that the Sheriff’s Department had recently ac-
quired new ‘toys’ as he put it, probably from
federal Homeland Security funds, and he
thought it was outrageous, and he said ‘That’s
what this is really all about — they have to try
out their new toys.’” — TJT
CORRECTIONS/
CLARIFICATIONS
Last week in our profile of Corvallis
herbalist Harold Keith, we edited out the
website of his family business, Zenith
Advanced Health Systems, since the site
(www.zenith4theplanet.com) was not run-
ning, and continues to have technical prob-
lems. Zenith can be contacted by e-mail at
zenith4@peak.org
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