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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Rally to Protect Free Speech from Police Brutality

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2011/11/249607.php

by Rockero Friday, Nov. 11, 2011 at 9:27 PM

Friday, November 11, 2011
RIVERSIDE, (CA) - In response to Sunday's police raid on the peaceful anti-Wall Street encampment at the downtown arts walk, Occupy Riverside marched on the police station and rallied there. In recognition of Veteran's Day and the significant contributions of veterans to the Occupy Movement and all social justice movements, we took a moment to honor the veterans in our movement and all veterans of the class war.

The day's activities began with an 11:30 am rally at the pedestrian walkway and University Avenue, where occupiers and supporters increased awareness about the weekend's injustice, chanted, and sang. One young woman delighted us with an original song composed just for the occasion.

By noon or so, we had a good crowd of well over 100 people, and began our march. Our veterans, one a trans woman and Vietnam combat veteran and another, a Sunday arrestee and survivor or the latest Iraq war, led the way. Again, as during the march in solidarity with Oakland occupants, we denounced the Wells Fargo cartel as we passed the corner of University before hanging a left down Market. We chanted "Hey hey! Ho ho! Police brutality has got to go!" as well as the now-famous "We are the 99%!"

We rounded the corner at 14th Street and paused for a moment at the Bank of America to denounce that cartel's crimes against humanity before turning up Orange Street. To the bewildered looks of the police officers standing guard at the police station, we passed their facility, arriving at the Presley Detention Center and filling up the entire plaza in front of the jail. One comrade explained the purpose of the stop:

"We are here at the detention center, not just because this is where our comrades were detained Sunday for six, seven, some of them eight hours, but also in recognition of the suffering that goes on in jails, prisons, and immigrant detention facilities all across this nation. The United States has the highest per capita rate of detention in the world, and it's because of the policies that the 1% impose on us. Those of us in the 99% cannot afford justice."

We then returned to the police station, where we chanted some more before beginning our program. Our master of ceremonies began with some inspiring words before asking Jasmine, a UCR student who witnessed the events of Sunday, to come forward to explain what happened that day.

The description was followed by testimonies from Robert, who was victimized, Elizabeth, who told the story of the aggression against the father of her child and the subsequent denial of his right to due process by Riverside sheriff's deputies at the jail, and Dani, the People's Kitchen volunteer who had to be hospitalized for her injuries.

Robert said, "I just wanna thank everybody for being out here tonight. I personally was arrested that day, and I want to address the mainstream media because we've been told that there was no police brutality. What people've gotta realize is that you don't have to be punched to be hurt. If you choke someone hard enough, they can pass out. You know what I mean? I was arrested and I had about three to four police officers on top of me, on my neck, on my head, and on my back for being part of the human chain. We were just protecting food. They said that we attacked them with a lethal weapon. I don't know what weapon they're talking about, cause all we had were tents, food, people, clothing, love, books--that's our weapon. They came with handcuffs, beanbags, firearms, police cars, pepper spray. You know, we're here peacefully, and what people need to realize, they're saying we have no specific demands. Well, you gotta be patient with us America, because look at what we've done in just two months since Wall Street began. Some people say we haven't accomplished anything. We've totally changed what people are talking about now. And we're here standing for America, not just for ourselves. And realize that today it could be me, tomorrow it could be your child, your granddaughter, your husband, your wife. This is something that affects America, not just an individual. And when you let someone get away with a little bit, the next time they're gonna wanna do more. And another thing, we're here to march not only for ourselves but also for Scott Olson. He has made the ultimate sacrifice. He's put his life on the line. And he went to Iraq for two tours, he came back, and he was hurt really really bad, by police, by a citizen. And that is not right. I wanna tell the mainstream media, you gotta stop editing the film. Show the real footage! Be real and be honest, because tomorrow it will be you. You think you're part of the one percent, I tell you what: sooner or later, they're not gonna need you. And what do you think they're gonna do to you? United, we will never be defeated. We are too big to fail! We are too big to fail!"

Dani was the last speaker of the segment. "I just first--before I speak about my experiences on Sunday, I want to say thank you to all my comrades who are here supporting me. And it's to be on this side of the police department and not locked up inside and demoonstrating against state-sanctioned violence.

"On Sunday, I received a call from Evan that the police had come, and this was after multiple threats this weekend that they were gonna come and raid our camp. I was at home, I threw on clothes, and I got down there, and as soon as I got down there, I saw them carrying items away from the People's Kitchen. So not only was I mad that they were at my camp, I was mad that they were taking away all the stuff we were working so har d to get from the community in order just to stay in our camp. So I joined the human chain immediately. We were not only protecting the items in the People's Kitchen, but out books, our library, our personal belongings, it's just--we had to do it. So we've been accused of breaking laws and saying this is OK that the police used the force that they did, but it's not right! I mean, I broke a law that I think is unjust. Before the police even tried to take me from the human chain, I had one officer grab my left arm, which is now sprained, and just twist it behind my back and do that for multiple, multiple minutes, and even when it continued after I was handcuffed and arrested, he continued to do that. And then I was later slammed onto the ground.

"There's a lot of video footage, I've told this story a lot. So--and just watching all of my brothers and sisters thrown to the ground, I didn't use any profanity against the police. I don't condemn anyone that did, but it was just unnecessary force and aggression and abusive behavior at the hands of the RPD. My injuries are documented, I went to the emergency room after I got out of jail, so I just want to say thank you for being here, it really means a lot. What happened on Sunday, I would never downplay it, but unfortuantely, that's just a tiny percent of the police brutality in the entire world. And people think that in the US it doesn't happen here, but like Elizabeth said, it happens in minority neighborhoods, Black, Mexican, Hispanic, Latino, the poor, I mean, they have to endure it every day. They don't have a group that's standing up for them. We are now!"

Our MC then asked Julio to lead a tribute to the veterans in our midst. They were invited to come forward and were lauded by all present. Each was given a chance to speak, and these speeches provided a solid underpinning to the day's actions, making extremely clear the relationship between the struggles against police brutality, for economic justice, and against the wars.

"We have students, don't we? We have teachers, don't we? We have union members, don't we? This is the kind of movement that is changing the face of America. We are making history right now. We are making history, because this kind of brutality that the police committed we are not permitting any more. In order to do that, we need to get together with people from every rant of society. Black, Hispanic, Asian, White, and also with every sector, in the sense that this country's made up of so many kind of people. So one of the sectors that are very important for this country because they sacrifice a lot are the veterans."

Michelle began: "I served in the Vietnam War. I joined the navy in an effort to stay out of the army and served this country in a war that I believed was wrong. And it was wrong, and it accomplished very little, except a lot of death.

"And after I came home from the war, I was discriminated against as a war veteran. They promised me educational assistance, they fell short on that. They promised me job assistance, they fell short on that. They promised me housing assistance, and I am still unemployed and homeless as a US veteran. Combat veteran!

"And what happened to Scott Olson is just another example of how much they care about the veterans they put on the front line in so-called defense of our rights. It's not right!

"I was so proud of the human chain and the ones that resisted on Sunday. It shows so much commitment and courage and the unity and love of this movement."

Next came Matt. "Hello everyone, and thank you for being here. My name's Matt and I served in the US army. I'm glad to see all of you out here because there is a cause here: defending the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I and everyone else in the military took an oath to defend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, so I gotta thank you all for doing that for us."

The next man, the father of an occupier, wore a baseball cap emblazoned with military regalia. He asked us to repeat after him as he said, "I had a mother, a brother, a sister, but where's my Uncle Sam?"

Juan was next. "Hi everyone, my name is Juan Brown. I'm an occupier. I also served with the Bush administration senior in the Gulf War. I got a lot of brothers and sisters still in. But I'm also here to honor my dad, who died in Vietnam. He was blown apart. He was saving a member of his platoon and walked on a mine. So this is to all the veterans, and to demoncracy, that we are going to stand fast and put back in America. I'm here to say to all the occupiers across the world and to all the veterans, let's put the 'A' back in America."

Dick was last. "Hello, I'm Dick Morris and I joined the air force during the Vietnam War because I didn't want to get drafted into the army, and I spent all my time here in the United States actually freezing in Montana for three-and-a-half years. But it's really exciting to see such a wonderful group of people. Give yourselves a big hand for being here today! I was literally shocked when I heard about what happened inside here. I would assume you never see that kind of stuff in the movies, or in the program where the police are brutalizing people inside the sheriff's station! This is horrible, it's just unacceptable. And we need to change that. We need to change that, and we can. This is a tremendous movement. I understand that the last figures were something like 650,000 people have stopped putting their money in banks and they're taking htem into the credit unions. Raise your hand if you have your money in a credit union. Fantastic, look at that, it looks like maybe 50 percent or so. That's fantastic. And that's one of the ways that we can take the country back and give it to the people. Thank you all for being here."

The floor was then opened to anyone else who wanted to speak, and several speakers availed themselves of the opportunity, including members of the ANSWER coalition and comrades from Occupy LA.

Occupy Riverside continues to face many obstacles. We are still developing policies and enforcement mechanisms to deal with the most-oppressed among us who suffer from mental illness and the aggressions that accompany it, and we are certain to face more repression as the city gears up for its annual "Festival of Lights," a celebration of gratuitous consumerism to benefit Riverside's 1%. Through unofficial channels, the city has made it clear that they will "clean us out" before the November 25 inaugural ceremony, and we have yet to develop a strategy or contingency plan for that eventual scenario. However, we have demonstrated our resolve and our solidarity through our response to police repression and our continued growth and commitment to a democratic process. Occupy Riverside is here to stay.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Radical Educator Bill Ayers speaks at Claremont Colleges

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2009/04/225916.php

Radical Educator Bill Ayers speaks at Claremont Colleges
by Rockero Tuesday, Apr. 07, 2009 at 2:48 AM
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Monday, April 6, 2009 CLAREMONT, California - Bill Ayers, professor of education and co-founder of the radical antiwar organization the Weather Underground--labeled "domestic terrorists" by the FBI--spoke to a crowd of about 300 this evening about activism, Obama, and education. A recurring theme of his talk was the importance of movements (in contrast with the common emphasis on leadership) in bringing about social change, and his exhortation was that we in the audience participate in those movements.

There were probably about three hundred people, mostly college students but with the notable presence of older members of the community, seated in the Gold Student Center at Pitzer College, a prestigious private university about an hour east of Los Angeles with a reputation for a faculty and student body that leans strongly to the left.

Outside, a woman wandered the service roads with a large anti-Ayers sign and a t-shirt demanding justice for a slain police officer, and Claremont Republicans distributed anti-Ayers propaganda. But inside, the crowd was mostly sympathetic.

"I've urged people for months now, that any time you have the impulse to put the press on the Obama administration, which I'm not against, but when you have that impulse, you have to start by asking yourself, 'What press have I put on myself? What am I demanding of myself?'"

"We ought to be thinking hard about how we to build a movement within that gap--within the gap of rising expectations for a better world but serious limitations about whether the world as we know it can possibly go on indefinitely into the future, and I would argue that no, it can't."

He elaborated on some of those limitations, most of them environmental, and then continued.

"Three things that are required of you and are required of me, and are required if we're going to make anything out of this particularly precious, fragile, and fascinating moment that we're living in:

"First thing is [...] you have to open your eyes to the world around you as it is.

"Step two is doing something about it.

"Step three is rethinking. Criticizing yourself. Rethinking whether everything you did made all that much sense."

Good advice all three, but it is difficult not to read into step three undertones of regret and the shadow of the Weather Underground's excesses.

By way of illustration of the primary call to awareness, Ayers prefaced with the historical example of the abolitionist movement. "If we were hard-core abolitionists [in 1840], let's just remember this: we would've been against the law, we'd have been against our parents, we would've been against tradition, common sense, the Bible, our preacher, our brothers and sisters, and almost everybody we knew."

He continued with the example of women's suffrage movement. "If you were for a woman's right to vote, you'd be against the law, against tradition, against the Bible, and on and on."

There may be many things we are not aware of because we accept them uncritically, but Ayers provided two examples: the overwhelming influence of money in the US political process, and the prison-industrial complex.

He joked, "Thirty years from now, when your grandaughter says to you, 'Were you around when the first African-American president was elected?' and if things work out well, you can say 'Yes I was' with a certain amount of pride. 'And I even knocked on doors, and I did this and did that.' And then she might say, 'Is it true that it cost him three-quarters of a billion dollars to be elected? And you call that democracy??'"

And continuing the metaphor of the hypothetical granddaughter in a much more serious tone, "Your granddaughter will say, 'So you went to the Claremont Colleges and when you went to college there were 2.3 or 4 million of your fellow citizens in prison? And there was one just miles from your campus?' With my students, I often tell them, 'One mile from our campus in Chicago, there are 18,000 black men caged. And it's a gulag and nobody sees it and it's invisible. It's just what what we get acclimated to, we assume, what we take for granted.'"

Ayers went on to discuss the anti-death penalty movement and its role in the 2003 implementation of a moratorium against the practice in Illinois by the "right-wing, mildly corrupt, now imprisoned Governor George Ryan." He continued, "It gave me a lot of hope that not only good people like you do things, but people you wouldn't even expect. If you organize properly, build a movement, even George Ryan can do the right thing." This was despite the popular fervor, promoted on AM radio, surrounding the execution of serial killer John Wayne Gacy only nine years prior. He explained the process: "The people of Illinois might be perfectly happy to execute people, but not arbitrarily! And so we saw in Illinois, in six years, in four years, a movement built that changed the state of justice in Illinois. What an amazing thing! What an exciting victory!"

The movement was a result of peoples' action. "You have to act. How you act, I don't know. You have to stand up and be heard in the public square. It's not good enough to think 'I'm a good person' and sit happily ever after on my couch in my dorm room. You have to be good in the world. You have to say where you stand in the world. And once you say where you stand on questions of justice and peace in the world, you have the world pushing back against you. And then you begin to learn, and you push back, and you get pushed back. And that's how we learn."

Also important in terms of dealing with reality as it is is the act and art of persuasion. "If you convinced somebody and you learned something, then it was probably a good action. But you have to persuade somebody. And that means, among other things, learning how to talk and how to change the frame."

Elaborating on the third course of necessary action, Ayers warned, "You have to doubt. If all you do is act and you become an adventurist, you become narcissistic. You become certain of yourself. You become dogmatic. You become trapped in a prison of one bright idea. But that problem of dogma, the problem of certainty, the problem of a single idea, this was really the problem of the Weather Underground. It was too sure of itself. It was too sure it had figured it out. And that's wrong. It's always wrong. There's always something more to know, so that third step is critical."

During the presidential campaign, the McCain campaign and other sinister forces tried to paint Obama as an extremist by tying the Democrat to Ayers, who was pursued by federal authorities for his role in a series of bombings of "monuments to war and racism" in the late 60s and early 70s.

Following the talk, a member of the audience brought up the acts, challenging Ayers to apologize: "I'm certain that I ask this question on behalf of tens of millions of my fellow Americans across this country, perhaps even a few in this auditorium. Mr. Ayers, since you willfilly exploded bombs in acts of violent domestic terrorism, against your own country, the United States of America, do you not feel sir, profound guilt for these evil acts and do you not feel morally compelled to express extreme remorse and to apologize to the citizens of this great nation, and especially to the brave veterans of this country who fought and died to preserve the very precious freedom which you so shamefully and disgracefully abused by perpetrating your vile acts of traitorous terrorism?"

Ayers responded by addressing the distinction between patriotism and nationalism. He denied that the Weather Underground was a terrorist organization, although he admitted that they "crossed lines of propriety and legality and [...] break the law." Finally, he highlighted the intensity of the war and the movement against it. "When 6,000 people are being murdered are being murdered by your government, you have a responsibility to do something. And my four siblings and myself each did something. He contextualized his role in the struggle by discussing it in terms of the roles his siblings played therein. "I have never defended what we did or said it was a bright or brilliant thing to do. No. But I will say, that in my own family (I have four siblings), and among the five of us, we made five choices. One of us joined the Democratic Party and tried to build a peace wing within it. One of us ran away to Europe. One of us went to a commune and built free land and free love (my favorite). One of us went into the industrial corridor of the Northeast and tried to organize workers to oppose the war. And one of us founded the Weather Underground. Now tell me which one of those five had the right strategy?"

Ayers entertained other questions about Obama's approach to change, ("Theories of change are badly flawed. The unintended consequences overwhelm what you intended to do.") the role of education in social change, (we should shift the debate away from the idea that education is a product) different models for organizing (the Alinsky model ACORN uses is just one, we should look into the Highlander school) the role of the internet in organizing, (transcend the generational/decade paradigm; use humor and art to transmit information), the Democratic Party, (it's not actually a party but a "collection of blocs"; if you go into a party keep an independent mind) how he related with his father (they were always close, except for the years he was underground), and rights (the Universal Declaration is a good place to start).

His answer to the last question segued into a passage from Obama's Dreams of my Father he used to conclude. The passage was about a Senegalese migrant worker the author met in Spain, about which Ayers commented, "I think it's interesting that a man with consciousness like this is in that place. It doesn't tell me that he's going to save us; it tells me we'd better save him
by building a movement for justice and peace, and get busy tonight."

After the question-and-answer session he hung around to chat, answer more questions, and take photos.

One man I talked to, a Pitzer student, said that he enjoyed the talk, especially Ayers' emphasis on introspection and self-criticism.

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2009/04/225918.php

Audio of the lecture and question-and-answer session in MP3 format.

http://la.indymedia.org/uploads/2009/04/ws211731.mp3

Audio of the lecture and question-and-answer session in MP3 format.

Q/A1
by Rockero Tuesday, Apr. 07, 2009 at 3:55 AM
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audio: MP3 at 62.4 mebibytes

Q/A2

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Karl Rove detained for crimes against humanity in Claremont

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2008/09/220462.php

Karl Rove detained for crimes against humanity in Claremont
by Rockero Wednesday, Sep. 17, 2008 at 3:10 AM
rockero420@yahoo.com

16 September 2008

CLAREMONT - Over 300 justice activists detained Republican mastermind Karl Rove for over an hour yesterday in Claremont, demanding he be brought to justice for crimes against humanity, democracy, and general moral sensibility. Despite fervent efforts, they were unsuccessful in executing a citizen's arrest.

Ever since his college days, when he snuck into the campaign headquarters of a Democratic candidate and stole 1000 letterheads to distribute false messages about the campaign, Rove has been involved in subterfuge, chicanery, theft, and subversion--and not in a good way. In fact, he has been using these tactics in the worst way possible: to get corrupt politicians elected so they can enact murderous, genocidal policies and enrich the richest of the elite's upper crust.

That's why so many people showed up yesterday to do whatever they could to oppose this man and the violence he has imposed on this world. Tactics ranged from mild to militant: some were content with speaking, chanting, and singing, while others yearned for the bittersweetness of direct action.

When I got there, people had already been mobilized for quite some time. The drums were beating and the chants were flowing. Someone or a group of someones had spiked the fountain outside the Claremont McKenna College's venerable Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum so that the waters ran as red as the blood that flows in the streets of Iraq. Participants, some of them masked, carried signs reading "Karl Rove I Want You [with a picture of Uncle Sam] Tried for War Crimes," "KKKarl Rove Architect of Lies Deception Terror,""How Many Lives Per Gallon?" and "USA vs Rove."

A table was set up with fruit, cookies, and lemonade, and later, volunteers brought a tray full of grilled cheese sandwiches. We helped ourselves as more people started showing up and a microphone was set up for to allow a little bit of free speech.

There were probably five or six speakers, total, who attempted to address the crowd through a weak PA system. Some of them had better luck abandoning the mic altogether and using megaphones. One speaker was a woman. Many of the speakers encouraged the assmblees to register and vote. Most of them were Obama supporters.

I don't disagree with voting in principle. Especially when we have the opportunity to vote against such vicious proposals as the homophobic prop 8 (wanting to re-ban gay marriage) and the anti-choice prop 6 (yet another "parental notification" bill). It's rare enough that they let the common person have any say whatsoever, so I think voting can be an important tactic to use. As long as we realize that it is one of many, and we don't get caught up in it and allow voting to be conceptualized as "the" means of political participation. But I do resent it when "leaders" among us attempt to channel leftist resources into the election machine. They deliberately divert the strong, positive energy and thirst for justice present at the event into electoral politics.

The people present at the protest realize that voting is not going to get justice for Rove. It is not going to end the war, sexism, or poverty. And it is definitely not by voting that last night's participants created a community that organized and acted. The dedicated people who showed up last night had a different tactic in mind: direct action.

After the brief microphone session, fifteen minutes of which was taken up by a well-known and well-liked professor, we were invited to attend informal teach-ins held concurrently on the nearby lawn with professors from the Claremont Colleges.

"I'm glad they brought the professors," I overhead one compañer@ remark. "I really needed someone to tell me what to think."

Some of the teach-ins began ending, and one young woman led those gathered in a collective Om. Further chants arose, and certain activists began demanding that either the police present arrest Karl Rove or they be allowed to execute a citizen's arrest. They were denied entrance to the building.

"I don't get it!" exclaimed one compañer@. "There's like three of them [cops]. Why don't we just rush in?" Many explanations, but many more questions, came to mind, but the crowd was seemed to be too caught up in the drama of the man with man with the megaphone to ponder them.

Which is not to say that individuals didn't do their part to push the discourse in positive ways. Many of the signs were very artistic. And many people felt free to shout out their own, often radical, messages. And often, I was witness to many individuals breaking the bounds of anonymity to introduce themselves to other compañeras and compañeros. All beautiful sights.

One of the most beautiful actions of the night was a song, inspired by Bush's reference to Rove as the "architect" of his 2004 "re-election"¹ springing seemingly spontaneously from the crowd:

"Architect of terror
architect of hate
throw the man in jail
lock his ass away"

While the song was beautiful in its spontaneity, mutability, and melody, its subliminal message was not lost on everyone. One compañer@ opined:"Like it's really gonna do anyone good to lock one guy up, you know? I mean, we need justice, but, at the same time, we're perpetuating this idea that the only way we can have justice is through locking people up!" Later on, someone complained, "Imprisonment is plaguing our society, and here we are demanding more."

We realized our only chance for action was at Rove's egress, so we decided to cover every exit, ostensibly to issue a citizen's arrest. A large crowd gathered in front of a limo parked in back of the Athenaeum just beside the rear exit. A small group kept its eyes on a small side entrance guarded by two nervous security guards. The largest remained outside the north entrance, although for some reason, most of us remained within the confines of our partial plastic-chain enclosure of a "free speech zone." There we used a combination of approaches, from reaching out to heckling, on the shameless fascists exiting the event. These tie-choked, starched-collar, spiked hair white fraternity boys foamed at the mouth to see such an energetic group daring to peacably assemble and demand redress of greivances. Perhaps they felt they were protecting their rich parents and Claremont's conservative elite when they yelled at us, calling us "hippies" Most of the demonstrators yelled "Arrest Karl Rove!," but some near the front had more interesting messages for them.

Then, a large group mobilized toward the south entrance of the building. It seemed that they had been attracted by a police mobilization and the fact that cars had pulled up at a small roundabout there. Lines formed, and police brought out their riot gear. I saw them pull out a large, red-colored weapon. Some of the protestors said it was used for pepper spray. A confrontation seemed imminent. I saw one cop pushing one protestor away from a car. But nothing really happened.

At various times, organizers requested that people cover one exit or another when it appeared (based on cop activity) that Rove may be leaving. How do we know, I wondered, that the cops aren't going to take advantage of this to smuggle this guy out?

Which is what happened. A rumor circulated that Rove had made to another (yet somehow connected) building and was attempting to escape from a distant side door. Nonetheless, people went running. The paper today claimed that a bomb threat caused the shift in manpower that distracted a number of protesters.² But we knew the real reason the cops claimed there was a bomb.

People who refused to be tricked stuck to where they knew Rove was. There, some of them were maced, which allowed Rove's driver to exit, plowing through the few remaining activists without regard for their safety in the midst of the confusion.

A small group of militant squares taunted us. "Looks like the hippies failed again!" Some people started to fall for this classic provocation, but were counseled otherwise. An organizer announced a reconvergence at the front, and a few die-hards, chronic networkers, and communists remained to pursue their agenda, but most people began leaving about then.

1) Bush, George W. "President George W. Bush Gives Thanks in Re-Election Acceptance Speech," November 3, 2004. Accessed September 16, 2008 http://www.4president.org/speeches/georgewbush2004address.htm

2) Woods, Wes. "Rove speech greeted with protests, bomb threat, claims of pepper spray". Daily Bulletin, September 16, 2008. Accessed online at http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_10471652

Blood on his hands--and CMC\'s