Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Point of Defiance
Building on earlier success at the Port of Olympia, Veterans for Peace affinity groups were recently arrested while preventing equipment for escalation of the Iraq War from being loaded at the Port of Tacoma. While most war protestors are still morally unready for forceful confrontation with state authority, a growing support of civil disobedience amongst the Quaker/Unitarian/Catholic Worker confluence provides the underpinnings for an escalating campaign of defiance.