http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34676-2002Apr11.html
There were about 70 people there, and evidently two or three TV networks. Some Christian clergy, and about five Palestinians, some with big flags (to which nobody took exception). There were no bad guys in sight, just the praetorian guard at the State Dept.
Lerner, West, and a third person I didn't know spoke. The speeches were a little more wimpy than I expected. Then Lerner started taking questions. This seemed to go on forever, which is why I left. Leaving was a bit easier since the thing had been announced as civil disobedience. I went prepared to get arrested, since I'm out of practice. I thought a bunch of jews getting arrested at State criticizing Sharon was a natural man-bites-dog story and would get coverage. But I wasn't eager to get arrested.
Evidently after I left, there was a debate about whether to proceed with the CD. Not smart, in hindsight, but at least they went and did it finally. The pacificity, not to say passivity, of the affair became the Post's lead. Just shows you that a little rowdiness has its uses.
This sort of CD has become a completely choreographed affair. Nobody is inconvenienced in the slightest. Everybody goes through their moves, like old troupers.
My consolation prize for not getting busted was hearing a speech from a hyper-kinetic Richard Gephardt, Most memorable and genuinely weird line: "Politics is a substitute for violence."
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> > anyone hear or read any news about the Tikkun demonstration today of
> > Rabbi Lerner and Professor Cornel West? thanks.
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> I assume that's the one Max said he was bored at. Max?
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