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domestic anti-war arrests on the rise
from infoshop.org/inews:
“There have been over 15,000 arrests for resistance to war since 2002 in the United States. There were large numbers right after the run up to and invasion of Iraq. Recently, arrests have begun climbing again. Though arrests are a small part of anti-war organizing, their rise is an indicator of increasing resistance.
The information comes from the Nuclear Resister, a newsletter that has been reporting detailed arrest information on peace activists and other social justice campaigns since 1980. Felice and Jack Cohen-Joppa, publishers of the Nuclear Resister, document arrests by name and date based on information collected from newspapers across the country and from defense lawyers and peace activists.
Since 2002, the Nuclear Resister has documented anti-war arrests for protestors each year:
- 2002 – 1800 arrests
- 2003 – 6072 arrests
- 2004 – 2440 arrests
- 2005 – 975 arrests
- 2006 – 950 arrests
- 2007 – 2272 arrests
- 2008 – 810 as of May”
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