Des Moines Catholic Worker community asks U.S. Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee "Who Would Jesus Bomb?" at his Des Moines campaingn office days before the Iowa caucus. Huckabee did not respond.
In a day-before-the-caucus effort to obtain from Senator Barack Obama a pledge of withdrawal from Iraq, nonviolent actors representing "Voices for Creative Nonviolence" and the Des Moines Catholic Worker community witness a spurned media and turned backs at the Senator's Des Moines campaign office.
www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/3 169/81/
In a day-before-the-caucus effort to obtain from Governor Mitt Romney a pledge to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by April 2009 if he is elected President, nonviolent actors representing Voices for Creative Nonviolence and the Des Moines Catholic Worker community converse with campaign staff, display photos of Iraqis, and chant the names of Iraqis and Americans who have died in the Iraq War. Four are arrested.
For more information on this action, visit:
http://vcnv.org/category/sodapop
http://www.desmoinescatholicworker.org (less)
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