1980
2,000 women surrounded the Pentagon
Washington, DC
"Four huge female puppets created by Bread and
Puppet Theater led some 2,000 women in a march past Arlington Cemetery
to the Pentagon. There they encircled the building, put gravestones in
the lawn, wove yarn across the entrances to symbolically reweave the web
of life, and created rituals of mourning and defiance by chanting,
yelling, and banging on cans. Over 140 women were arrested for blocking
the doors at two entrances. They also blocked the Mall entrance, but no
arrests were made there. Most arrestees pled "no contest" and were
immediately sentenced to 10 days for first offenders or 30enders who
received longer sentences were shackled at the wrists, waist, and ankles
and immediately sent 300 miles to a federal prison for women."
A Day Without the Pentagon: Historic Pentagon Actions: 1980s to Present
(War Resisters League 1998)
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2 comments:
were you in the circle that tried to levitate the Pentagon in 1967?
Wonder fULL to remember, back to my beginnings.
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