IVAW! "Kick That Barrel! Hands Off Iraqi Oil!"

[leftchick]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/13042


In a town awash in irony, this particular example of it couldn't have been more striking.

Yesterday, in Washington, D.C., former Marine Corps Sergeant and Iraq War vet, Adam Kokesh, kick-rolled a 55-gallon oil drum lettered "Hands Off Iraqi Oil" across K Street--an avenue that has become synonymous with the power of corporate lobbyists.

Kokesh, former Army National Guard Sergeant Geoff Millard, and former Army Private Marc Trainer, in the center of a knot of demonstrators, took turns kicking the barrel up 16th Street towards Lafayette Park, adjoining the White House, for a protest sponsored by U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW), Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), and Oil Change International.

The protest and an earlier news conference at the Institute for Policy Studies was called to bring public attention to the Oil Law passed by the Iraqi Cabinet one year ago and now waiting approval by Parliament.

Citing a letter USLAW sent yesterday to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and George Bush, Gene Bruskin, co-convenor of USLAW, said that under Paul Bremer, the man Bush put in charge of running Iraq right after the invasion, the Hussein administration laws were wiped off the books--except for Law 150 and Law 151 which prohibit Iraqi workers from organizing unions in the public sector, some two-thirds of the nation's economy.

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Maintaining its tradition of largely ignoring events critical of U.S. policy in Iraq, U.S. corporate news outlets were conspicuously absent from yesterday's news conference and protest. United Press International, Talk Radio News, Voice of America and a D.C. television station were the only U.S. news media present. Representing the international press were Reuters; Agence France Press, one of the world's top newswires; Telesur, a TV network serving much of Latin America; Al Jazeera; and the Japanese newspaper, Akahata.




Yesterday, in Washington, D.C., former Marine Corps Sergeant and Iraq War vet, Adam Kokesh, kick-rolled a 55-gallon oil drum lettered "Hands Off Iraqi Oil" across K Street, an avenue that has become synonymous with the power of corporate lobbyists.

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. K&R

Great demonstration! :woohoo:

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. Invading and Occupying Iraq wasn't about the Oil - Dubya said so!

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What's the matter with y'all?

Don't you believe the "decider"?

Shame on ya.

[Old and In the Way]

3. Those at the tip of the spear know why they've been sacrificed.

It's for Exxon's bottom line.

[War Pigs]

4. the Republicans are not just interested in fucking U.S. unions,

now I don't feel so bad. I wonder how much lost home equity, plundered 401K value,etc. it will take before the middle class Fucktards who vote (R) will quit worrying about the social wedge issues that don't pay the bills??

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Adam is a modern day hero

[leftchick]

9. he sure is!

I would love to meet him some day. What a role model for my boys. :)

[malaise]

6. Lovely

K & R

[slipslidingaway]

7. Let's not discuss this issue until after the election...

:grr:

[bigbrother05]

8. K and R

[slipslidingaway]

10. Kick...

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/31169

"...The Texas/Iraq/London/Indiana actions will follow by one day a noon march on the Washington, DC office of ExxonMobil; sponsors include Oil Change International, U.S. Labor Against the War, No War No Warming, Code Pink, Voters for Peace, Hands Off Iraqi Oil, Platform UK, United for Peace and Justice, AfterDowningStreet, War on Want, DC Chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Consumers for Peace and Grassroots America.

“Oil companies are getting 20-30% more for their oil because of decreased Iraqi oil production and the volatility in world oil markets because of the war,” said Mr. Jawad. ‘It is unconscionable that they be allowed to laugh all the way to the bank as the blood of thousands colors the desert sands of Iraq.”

[me b zola]

11. K&R