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Longtime group still hopes (and stands) for peace
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Local residents gather every Friday to protest the use of force in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as other social issues currently being debated.
By Caitlyn May
After the election of Barack Obama
in 2008, a man approached Louis In-
mann and her group of fl ag waving
protestors. He said he assumed that
the group, with slogans like “Fox News lies” and “Save public edu-
cation,” would have blindly supported the newly-elected president
through the reported drone attacks.
“I told him we don’t care who’s doing wrong. Wrong is wrong,”
she said. She has to pause to call back Momo, the dog who has been
dutifully standing alongside the group since she was a puppy. She’s
now 12 years old. “We call her the “Peace Pooch,” Inmann said.
The group, which has fl uctuated from Stand for Peace and Occu-
py Cottage Grove, says it’s the longest running demonstration in the
state. They’ve been standing on Main St. since the invasion of Iraq.
“We demonstrated to save the post offi ce too,” Inmann said. “We
want to have whatever infl uence we can.”
Inmann is one of only two members left from the original group
and she said numbers have dwindled to the level that no longer
allows a single member to take a day off.
“If we were sick or something, there were enough of us to still go
and do it,” she said. “But now, if one or two of us don’t then there’s
no one left to come.”
Standing on the corner of 7th St., the group says it has added new
signs to its nearly quarter-of-a-block display since the election of
President Donald Trump. They used to wave their rainbow fl ags
begging for peace for an hour. Now, as they’ve grown older and
fewer, Inmann says that has scaled back to 30 minutes.
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“We also used to hold a candlelight vigil every Sunday but two
days a week just got to be too much,” she said.
It was during one of those vigils, held for soldiers killed during
the war and occupation, that the group says a car tried to run over
one of their signs, veering off the road to do so.
“We’ve had people give us the fi nger, scream at us, throw things
at us,” Inmann said.
Counter-protests have sprung up occasionally she said, but lately
the reception has been mostly positive.
“Now we get peace signs, honks and waves,” she said.
The group meets every Friday on Main St. from 5:30 p.m. to 6
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