Anti-war protesters chained together, their arms covered by tar and plastic pipe, blocked the entrances to Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center in Lawrenceville this morning.
About 50 people were involved, including those chained together, those bringing them coffee and food, a makeshift band and other supporters.
Pittsburgh Police arrested 14 people who were blocking the 43rd Street entrance to the plant. But six others who chained themselves to the front gate on 40th Street were allowed to remain. The protesters from the Pittsburgh Organizing Group said the robotics center gets almost all of its budget from the military.
In addition to the protesters chained to the main gate of the center off 40th Street, a tripod of long metal poles was erected to block the way. A Bloomfield woman, 24-year-old De’Anna Caligiuri, was suspended from its point in a harness about 15 feet above the asphalt driveway. It was the first time she had done this, a tactic borrowed from the environmental movement. The device was apparently erected to make it difficult for police to remove without injuring her.
“I volunteered to be up here,” Ms. Caligiuri said. “Someone needed to be up here and I didn’t mind doing it. I’m a little cold but good. I’m here because i’m against the war. I feel it’s very important to do direct action against and confront local institutions that facilitate and profit from the war.”
you know, who the fuck has time to be protesting a war in the middle of the day? Jobless no good hippies! get a fucken life. I understand its their right to protest or whatever, but you know, those people that work their have families to feed too. i hate garbage like that. i wish they all woulda been maced and beaten. i can’t even express how bad i would love to have these bastards of society protest something i was a part of. I would love to run every single one of them over in the A-Team van.
I would bet that if you looked into those people’s backgrounds, they are probably PAID PROTESTERS. The stupid liberal-owned media will not tell you about it. They are supposed to be poor idealists protesting for a worthy cause that they all believe passionately in. It’s all bullshit, and don’t be stupid enough to buy into any of it. They are nothing more than a rent-a-mob who don’t even give a shit about the “cause”.
Hm, 50 people standing outside of Carnegie Mellon protesting a war. I hope they feel better that they weren’t even a smidge on the radar of people who would actually give two shits.
There was a guy (Vince Erena, something like that) at CMU that always protested in front of one of the buildings. I don’t think he went to school there, he was like a professional protestor or something. Dirty looking too. The one time he was on a hunger strike my buddy decided to have a BBQ across the lawn from him.
Protesting against the military and defense department that provides them the freedom to do stupid useless fucking bullshit like this. Yep, no irony there is there?
