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there seem to be a few people who have missed this point…

Now, these pictures represent the actuality of the “Fighting for Freedom of Speech and other Rights” that our noble and glorious Military and Police do. These scenes, the one where the cop has an elderly gentleman in a choke-hold, an … Continue reading

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St Patricks Day Parade photos

COLORADO SPRINGS- Peace contingent in St Patrick’s Day parade. (Click on images to see larger crop.) Devon decorates last minute stand-in for the Bookmobile. Assembling at staging area, last position. Dancers, as MaryLynn and Dave look on. Layla and Andy … Continue reading

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Policing by America’s Reich

Last week it was news about a woman named Hope in New York, whose cousin had called the police because another cousin had sexually molested her. When the police came they ended up arresting the victim, taking her to jail, … Continue reading

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No ‘social statements’ allowed in the public park

This incident in Kansas City has striking similarities with the police attack on the Colorado springs’ Saint Patrick’s Day Parade Bookmobile pro-Peace group. In Kansas City, CBS took over the public park and police helped censure opposing public views to … Continue reading

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Favorite photos of St Patrick’s Parade

The shirts versus the skinheads as child and companion look on Peace marchers catch up Officer Paladino halts bookmobile, Marshall Pete Page blocks paraders Parade monitor Dougie Haig phones organizer John O’Donnell We will not be silenced Paladino enters bookmobile … Continue reading

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I know what you did last spring

We were able to obtain these prosecution photos during the trial. Officer Paladino has finally released Esther from a painful arm-bar. The sign (obscured by a balloon from the Chipotle parade unit passing beside us) reads KIDS NOT BOMBS. Esther … Continue reading

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Police foreknowledge on St Patricks Day

We used to joke around the fire at Camp Casey about whether we were being surveilled or infiltrated by agents or disruptors even, as has been done with historic regularity to opposition political groups and their organizers. Even to discuss … Continue reading

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St Patrick’s hooters

Well here’s some absolutely salacious news -that may not be the word I mean- on the much over-talked subject of the St Patrick’s Day parade. The PPJPC was accused of having crashed the parade, of having signed up under a … Continue reading

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St Patrick’s interruptus for the record

May I clarify the actions of the peaceful marchers at the St Patrick’s Day parade? My fellow participants sat down, not to block the path of the parade, but to resist the rough-handed treatment of me and Esther Kisamore who … Continue reading

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March for peace and the Irish Insurgents

Saturday, March 17 marks St Patrick’s Day, and also marks the 4th anniversary of the war in Iraq. Join thousands++ worldwide who are protesting this weekend to call for an end to this endless war. March with the Bookman Bookmobile … Continue reading

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Mini Metro-Mite

One of my most cherished possessions, a 1963 International Harvester Metro-Mite, here disguised as a delivery step van the size of a children’s toy passing for a promotional piggy bank pretending to be for a kid.   I can’t find … Continue reading

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St. Patrick’s Day Parade peace infiltration

(Sarah, Mimi, Amy, Evie, Lara, Ryan, Devon, Marie, David, Peter, Diann, Amber)   Our peaceful infiltration of the Old Colorado City St. Patricks Day Parade was great fun. We had to scale back our original plans for using the Peace … Continue reading

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Biting the hand

The other day I stopped by a weekly gathering of friends of mine, a local watering hole to which a number gather for happy hour. As I swung out of the car and strode toward the door, I thought about … Continue reading

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Bookman bookmobile gets some press

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Eric among Gazette Top Ten Innovators

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