AUT: Inventive Anti-war stuff

[Thomas Seay <entheogens@xxxxxxxxx>]

BLUE EARTH, MINN. -- They are only two people, two
lonely voices raised
                      on the southern Minnesota
prairie, but they are gaining notice -- as
                      much for the novelty of their
actions as for the content of their
                      cries.

                      "This is something you don't
normally see in a small town," Mayor Rob
                      Hammond said, sounding both
nervous and amused. "This is the first
                      demonstration we've ever had."

                      Mark Walker Jr., 16, had sat
patiently through three meetings with the
                      Blue Earth City Council to
obtain a permit to demonstrate his
                      opposition
                      to a war with Iraq. He plans to
spend 24 hours this weekend speaking,
                      handing out leaflets and
sleeping in a box at a downtown intersection,
                      homeless for a night to
dramatize a war's social costs.

                      City leaders initially demurred,
citing a curfew law that requires
                      people under 18 to be off the
streets by midnight. But Walker read the
                      curfew law carefully and found
that it doesn't apply in cases where
                      young people are out late to
exercise rights protected by the U.S.
                      Constitution.

                      (...)


http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/3610530.html



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