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DESCRIPTION:Four CodePINK mothers – charged with trespassing and allegedly 
 intimidating U.S. Marines at a peaceful demonstration – could do up to a 
 year in jail if convicted in a trial due to begin today.\n\nA rally and 
 news briefing will be held by the "CodePINK 4," and their lawyers, Monday, 
 June 23, 8:00am in front of the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse, 661 Washington 
 St, Oakland.\n\nThe trial is set to begin later today, Monday, at 9 a.m. 
 The four mothers were jailed March 24 during a protest where they were 
 expressing their deep despair and profound anguish over the deaths of 
 4,000th U.S. soldiers and over 1 million Iraq civilian deaths in Iraq held 
 at the Marine Recruiting Station.\n\n"These women of CodePINK were 
 exercising their constitutional rights to protest this illegal, immoral 
 war. The Berkeley City Council passed resolutions encouraging these women 
 to engage in their First Amendment rights. We have every confidence that a 
 jury is going to find them not guilty," said lawyers Judy Browne, Andy Auer 
 and Ann Winterman, who are defending the CodePINK 4.\n\n"The mothers were 
 the ones arrested while the war criminals and perpetrators remain free to 
 continue the heinous business of foreign troop occupation, torture, rape, 
 murder, mayhem, and the horrific destruction of the sovereign nation of 
 Iraq" said CodePINK mother Toby Blome.\n\n"Who are the real criminals in 
 this country? Who should be held accountable for crimes against our 
 constitution, our democracy, our freedom of speech? Who should be jailed 
 and fined?  Not US! We are upholding our Constitution. We are fighting for 
 our rights to hold our government, including our military, accountable to 
 the people of this nation: more than 80 percent of U.S. Americans think our 
 occupation of Iraq is wrong!" added CodePINK mother Pam 
 Bennett.\n\n“Marines are constantly telling us that they’re fighting 
 for our freedom of speech, but now we are being prosecuted for exercising 
 the very free speech they claim to protect, says Medea Benjamin, mother an 
 cofounder of the women’s peace group CODEPINK. “How ironic that the 
 Marines, who swear an oath to protect the Constitution, think that our 
 first amendment rights stop at their doorstep..”\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/22/18510335.php
SUMMARY:CodePINK Mothers face jail time for protesting at Marine recruiting station
LOCATION:Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse\n661 Washington St\nOakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/22/18510335.php
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