On this day in 1980 over 140 women were arrested as they marched past Arlington Cemetery to the Pentagon where they put gravestones in the lawn of the Pentagon 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. The women demonstrated to mourn and rage and defy the Pentagon because it is the workplace of imperial power which threatens us all. Here is more from the Unity Statement from this Womens Pentagon Action. There is a fear among the people, and that fear, created by the industrial militarists is used as an excuse to accelerate the arms race. We will protect you... they say, but we never have been so endangered, so close to the end of human time. We women are gathering because life on the precipice is intolerable. We want to know what anger in these men, what fear which can only be satisfied through destruction, what coldness of heart and ambition drives their days. We want to know because we do not want that dominance which is exploitative and murderous in international relations, and so dangerous to women and children at home--we do not want that sickness transferred by the violent society through the fathers to sons.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 14:49:05 +0000
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