A-Infos (en) US, New York, Update - on the 19 Arrested After Occupying UN General Assembly!!

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New York, USA: 19 Arrested After Occupying UN General Assembly!! And (Oct 22) 
Arraignments, Anti-War Drum Circle
From: www.PeaceNoWar.net

According from New York Independent Media Center:
URL http://nyc.indymedia.org/

Early Monday morning, a group of activists with No Blood For Oil! occupied 
the UN building and made the following demands:* Immediate lifting of 
economic sanctions against Iraq.

* No U.N. permission at any time for an invasion of Iraq. 
* Explicit U.N. condemnation of the new U.S. policy of anticipatory 
self-defense. 

13 student activists were removed from the General Assembly in the United 
Nations at 10:45 am, and 6 people were arrested in front of the US mission at 
12:30 p.m.

Those arrested were taken to the 17th Precinct, located at 167 East 51st 
Street between Lexington and 3rd Avenue, and have since been transported to 
central booking. No word yet on charges. Contact Yvonne L. at (646) 321-5710 
for further information.    

For photos: http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php?article_id=36525&;
group=webcast

For more information and the Oct 22 anti-war drum circle...
1) Oct 21: 19 Arrested After Occupying UN General Assembly!!
2) Protest against war on Iraq disrupts U.N. session (Reuters)
3) Tuesday (Oct 22) Arraignments, Anti-War Drum Circle  
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1) 19 Arrested After Occupying UN General Assembly  
Date:   10/21/2002 1:06:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From:   pteryla@yahoo.com

top: no blood for oil! press release
bottom: reuters coverage

NEW YORK, October 21, 2002, 3 pm - Thirteen members of No Blood For Oil!, a 
coalition against the planned invasion of Iraq, were arrested while occupying 
the General Assembly chamber at the United Nations. No Blood For Oil demands 
that all arrested activists be released, and all charges dropped. 

Thirteen activists were arrested inside the General Assembly. They locked 
arms and chanted their three demands inside the chamber at 10:45 am. The 
activists made the following three demands: 

* Immediate lifting of economic sanctions against Iraq.
* No U.N. permission at any time for an invasion of Iraq.
* Explicit U.N. condemnation of the new U.S. policy of anticipatory self 
defense.

Six activists were arrested outside of the U.S. mission to the UN. They were 
marching and holding a sit in. 

All nineteen activists are being held at the 19th Precinct, located at 167 
East 51st Street, between Lexington and 3rd Avenue. A group of thirty 
activists are currently outside of the precinct in support of those arrested 
inside. 
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2) Protest against war on Iraq disrupts U.N. session

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Some 13 young people were turned over to 
New York police on Monday after shouting slogans in the U.N. General Assembly 
hall against U.S. war plans for Iraq, U.N. officials said.

A short time later six other demonstrators chanted in front of the U.S. 
Mission to the United Nations, across the street from U.N. headquarters. They 
were arrested when they sat on the steps of the building.

At the United Nations, the 13 demonstrators entered the public gallery of the 
cavernous General Assembly hall as part of a public tour and began to shout. 
U.N. security guards removed them and turned them over to police on 
complaints of disorderly conduct, assembly spokesman Richard Sydenham said.

However, the assembly session, called to elect new members of the 
International Court of Justice, was suspended at the time and there was no 
meeting taking place, he said.

A group calling itself "No Blood for Oil!" issued a news release saying it 
had occupied the U.N. Security Council chamber, a far smaller room at the 
opposite end of the landmark United Nations compound along Manhattan's East 
River.

Security officials said the protesters were not near the Security Council 
chamber.

The group said it had made several demands of the United Nations including an 
immediate lifting of U.N. economic sanctions against Iraq and a U.N. denial 
of permission for an invasion of Iraq at any time.

U.S. President George W. Bush has called for a "regime change" in Baghdad and 
has asked the Security Council to approve a resolution tightening U.N. arms 
inspections and threatening military action if Iraq failed to implement 
previous demands that it destroy any biological, chemical or nuclear weapons 
it may have.

The council imposed sanctions on Baghdad and ordered the destruction of 
Iraq's weapons of mass destruction after Baghdad invaded neighboring Kuwait 
in 1990.

In its news release, No Blood for Oil! said it was a coalition of activists 
"pledged to resist the U.S. push for war through direct action."

"We call on all Americans to do everything in their power to stop aggression 
against Iraq," the group said.

10/21/02 13:13 ET
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3) Tuesday (Oct 22) Arraignments, Anti-War Drum Circle  
Date:   10/21/2002 11:58:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From:   redscares@mindspring.com

1.) If you can, please try to visit 100 Centre Street (nr. Worth & Leonard) 
Arraignment Rooms, 1st Floor, tomorrow, Tuesday, after 9:30 a.m. Sometime 
Tuesday the 13 U.N. General Assembly arrestees, mostly university students, 
will be arraigned there and released.

Meanwhile all five arrestees from a simultaneous action outside the U.S. 
Mission to the U.N. Monday morning got out by 10 P.M., four of them with 
only Desk Appearance Tickets and one with only a violation. (One will play 
a Russian terrorist on prime time TV this week.)

There are also CHARAS lockdown trials starting upstairs there tomorrow.

2.) Keep the pressure on! Wednesday drum circle 4:00 P.M. until maybe 7:00 
(or whenever), at Isaiah Wall, 43rd Street and 1st Ave. (Please try to 
bring drums and candles.)


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