Code Pink Claims Victory: Says Marine Recruiting Station in Berkeley has Closed......

[darrels joy]

Sweet victory



After a year of protesting the military recruitment office in Berkeley, CodePINK has won its battle: operations at the Marine Recruiting Station have ceased. Celebrate this accomplishment at CodePINK's one-year "End Recruiting" commemoration, where you can hear testimonies from the peace activists who drove the recruiters out.

Noon, free

Marine Recruiting Station

64 Shattuck, Berk.
(510) 524-2776
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_...2&issue_num=52
__________________________________________________ ______
View other events for the week of 9/24/2008

Title:	Mission Accomplished: One Year Testimonies at the MRS
START DATE:	Wednesday September 24
TIME:	12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location Details:
MRS (Marine Recruiting Station) 64 Shattuck Square Berkeley (On Shattuck Ave just south of University where Shattuck runs one-way and north - also 2 blocks north of downtown Berkeley BART)
Event Type:	Protest
Contact Name	zanne joi
Email Address	mzsam [at] bayareacodepink.org
Phone Number	510-524-2776
Address
CodePINK and our allies have prevailed! Major protest operations at the MRS have been ended, one year since covert military recruiting operations were first uncovered in Berkeley! Our coalition is now engaged in dis(as)sembling and deconstructing the U.S. military, making the world safe and secure! Our city and our coalition are proud of these accomplishments! Come to our One Year End Recruiting Commemoration Wednesday, Sept 24th noon at the MRS* to honor these courageous Peace Activists! Share and hear testimonies from the front lines of our most memorable, meaningful, insightful actions, episodes, and occurrences over the past year. For more information and to participate, just BE THERE or call 510-524-2776. *The MRS is located at 64 Shattuck Square, Berkeley, on Shattuck Ave just south of University where Shattuck runs one-way and north - or two blocks north of the downtown BART. http://www.bayareacodepink.org Added to the calendar on Friday Sep 19th, 2008 9:37 PM

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/200...9/18540073.php
__________________________________________________ ______
Code Pink Claims Victory: Says Marine Recruiting Station in Berkeley has Closed......



Still no MSM confirmation. Even if it did, we've since turned Iraq around to the point that it's not even recognizable from a mere 18 months ago. So they won the battle ....we won the war.......

After a year of protesting the military recruitment office in Berkeley, CodePINK has won its battle: operations at the Marine Recruiting Station have ceased.Celebrate this accomplishment at CodePINK's one-year "End Recruiting" commemoration, where you can hear testimonies from the peace activists who drove the recruiters out. CodePINK and our allies have prevailed!

Major protest operations at the MRS have been ended, one year since covert military recruiting operations were first uncovered in Berkeley!

Our coalition is now engaged in dis(as)sembling and deconstructing the U.S. military, making the world safe and secure!

Our city and our coalition are proud of these accomplishments!

Come to our One Year End Recruiting Commemoration Wednesday, Sept 24th noon at the MRS* to honor these courageous Peace Activists!

More here and here>>>>

http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/20...as-closed.html

[darrels joy]

These are from Wednesday, September24th, 2008 in front of the Marine Officers Selection Office in Berkeley.......................................... ........

So they're giving up.

Our city and our coalition are proud of these accomplishments!
No they're not proud of your antics, and there were no accomplishments. You're just lucky the tree sit was even more embarrassing and nobody's given you press in months.

Come to our One Year End Recruiting Commemoration Wednesday, Sept 24th noon
at the MRS* to honor these courageous Peace Activists!

Share and hear testimonies from the front lines of our most memorable,
meaningful, insightful actions, episodes, and occurrences over the past
year.

For more information and to participate, just BE THERE or call 510-524-2776.


*The MRS is located at 64 Shattuck Square, Berkeley, on Shattuck Ave just
south of University where Shattuck runs one-way and north - or two blocks
north of the downtown BART.
And in email...
Dearest CodePINKers:

Believe it or not, this week marks the end of a whole year of actions at the
MRS* to END RECRUITING, END WAR!

Tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept 24th, we will gather in front of the MRS at noon
and begin to commemorate our work this past year.

Some of us will call it "Mission Accomplished: Testimonies from the front
lines"! Others will call it one year of Berkeley community activism. Still
others will call it "Where we've been and where we are going to!"

All of us will acknowledge and honor both the activists and the over 120
actions we took to END RECRUITING, END WAR at the MRS since we uncovered
it's existence last September.

There's that "uncovered" language again. And 120 actions is interesting since it's been a year, and they were claiming they'd be there every day, which means only on a third of the days did they have a single person there. Keep in mind most of the time they might have 1-2 people there, so it's not exactly difficult to claim coverage.

Bring your most inspiring, memorable, favorite actions/stories; your photos
and articles; your passions and successes. We will sing with Betsy Rose and
others. And we will eat cake as well! Feel free to bring drinks to share!

We need a battery-operated lap top to play a couple of dvd's on too!
They can't arrange their own laptop? (And as opposed to what, a non battery operated laptop?)
Please join us for this important event.

What we do know for sure, it is one year later, we are MUCH deeper in debt,
many more lives have been destroyed, Lund is gone but another has taken his
place, and the hope of the Democrats are talking of ending the occupation of
Iraq in 2010 - maybe.

*The MRS is at 64 Shattuck Square, Berkeley (on Shattuck Ave just south of
University where Shattuck runs one-way and north - also 2 blocks north of
the downtown Berkeley BART)


ZANNE Sam Joi
work for peace; hold all life sacred; eliminate violence
Now, keep in mind that when I first reported on this in January there were just a few folks there. In Feb-March it was pretty busy (although many days had more counter protesters than protesters not even including massive pro troop rallys), but by April it was basically all over once they did their April Fool's prank. All summer most days there would have been nobody there except perhaps their summer intern, and it looked like...


Typical summer day at the USMC OSO.

So let's check it out. As always one nice thing about the blog format is I can go wide and show you the whole picture. That's the protest over on the left.

It's actually the largest turnout I've seen in months by a factor of five or so. There around 15 folks. Note that they don't have a city issued parking spot anymore (it expired July 1st I think) but they can't block the sidewalk so they're just kind of crammed in between two cars - one's parked way back in its spot and one way forward to hold the space.

Of course, many of those are truthers, not code pink members. Less than half of the group appears to have any pink at all on them. I see two truther signs, a truther bumper sticker on the big sign and a couple of truther t-shirts. And unless they're standing behind somebody I don't see any of the code pink founders or such that used to come.

Here's that bumper sticker just in case nobody believes me.
So that's that - I'm sure they'll protest there if they want to have an event and don't have anywhere else obvious to do it, but they're no longer protesting on a regular basis. Really this is no different than it's been for months, but it's kind of nice to have a formal wrap up.
http://www.protestshooter.com/20080924USMC/

[Seascamp]

He he, some victory, all right. The Berkeley folk are screeching like cut cats about the cops protecting the Marines against Code Pink and not out solving crime. Ayup, lots of spill over from the Oakland gang shoot em’ up and Berkeley has body bag count going. I doubt there could be a lousier job in the world than being a Berkeley Cop. Talk about being permanently locked in the inert mode, that be the one. Kind of like being a parade ground troop with rubber gun and chrome helmet, window dressing is all.

And sure, Code Pink is a high strength nutter magnet and not unlike a kid’s magnet growing whiskers as it is passed through beach sand. Big time joined at the hip with some local derivation of the 9/11 conspiracy theory bunch. Ay yi yi, what a mix and unstable at any speed. But on the bright side, the entertainment value has been worth the price of admission. So too bad that the Marines have the good judgment to blow out of that Berkeley circus tent of ‘Che‘ fire breathers. Party-up ‘Media‘, you won nothing aside from a further loss of credibility which was negative from the get-go. Go forth now and polish Hugo’s horn like a good girl, destiny awaits.

Scamp