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DESCRIPTION:On the busiest shopping day of the year, the day after Thanksgiving, Bay 
 Area Iraq Veterans Against the War will occupy the shopping district of 
 downtown San Francisco.\n\nOperation First Casualty (OFC) is about bringing 
 TRUTH - the first casualty of war - to the people. To make the action a 
 success we need volunteers to pretend to be Iraq citizens suffering under 
 the occupation of U.S. Forces.\n\nThank you to everyone that met up at 
 Dolores Park today for OFC training. After today we are confident that this 
 OFC will be a major success, keep up that energy for Friday and everything 
 will be fine.\n\nFor those who were unable to make today's training you can 
 still take part of the action this Friday. Today's training ensured that 
 enough people would have a good idea if what was going on, that the 
 "untrained" would be able to follow along by watching what was happening to 
 others. We will also have coordinators day-of to answer questions that pop 
 up, and guide people to where they should be.\n\nPlease invite your 
 friends, and if you were at the training today fill them in on what they 
 missed.\n\nDETAILED SCHEDULE (closely estimated times)\n\nWHEN / 
 WHERE\n...WHY\n\n10:30am / NW corner of Union Square (at the Heart - look 
 for people in white shirts)\n...show up early for breakfast foods and arm 
 band. Must be in uniform to participate; blank white Tshirt. Civilian 
 squads will be placed at their particular locations.\n\n11:00am / Geary 
 side of Union Square\n...Mob Freeze to bring attention to the action 
 ~10minutes.\n\n11:00am / Union Square\n...Action starts! Groups posted to 
 Cafe, Ice rink, Geary and Powell corner, and St. Francis. Extra squads will 
 be spaced out throughout Union Square.\n\n11:30am / Geary and Stockton -> 
 Yerba Buena Gardens\n...Torturees (6) to Yerba Buena Gardens, patrol pushes 
 down Stockton (~15minutes) and meets up with waterboarding demonstrator at 
 the MLK fountain.\n...All others remain at Union Square guarded for a bit 
 (should be a really good visual). After escaping, this group will head down 
 Powell towards the Powell Turnaround at Market. Be at the Turnaround by 
 12:00 noon, flyer the demonstration, chill til we get there.\n\n12:00pm / 
 Yerba Buena Gardens > Metreon > Bloomingdales\n...IVAW will regroup after 
 the extraordinary rendition, torturees will head over to Powell Turnaround 
 where we will join soon.\n...IVAW runs through Metron\n...IVAW police 
 patrols Bloomingdales and Westfield, enters on Mission and exits at Powell 
 Turnaround on Market\n\n12:15pm / Powell Turnaround\n...Checkpoint > Iraqis 
 trickle through our checkpoint, get harassed for a few minutes\n...Taking 
 Fire > Sound machine will sound and we will "take fire"\n...Eddie's hit! > 
 We'll take him out of the way and return fire on everyone\n...Die - in > 
 Blood packets for those who want 'em, pile up and remember to be 
 dramatic!\n\n12:45pm / Walkover to UN Plaza (2 blocks)\n...Civilians go on 
 ahead at normal pace, assemble and start\nprotesting, carrying signs, and 
 chanting "U.S.!", "Out of Iraq!".\n\n1:00pm / UN Plaza\n...IVAW squad will 
 arrive later because we'll be marching at patrol speed. Once we arrive we 
 work on riot control.\n...Depending on the reaction from the crowd we can 
 drag this out or end sooner, we'll get a feeling for it. But the result 
 will be U.S. Forces being overthrown by PEOPLE POWER, we will retreat to 
 the UN Plaza Fountain to deliver the press conference\n\n~1:30pm LUNCH! 
 Thanks to Food Not Bombs. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/11/23/18552657.php
SUMMARY:Iraq Veterans Against the War - Occupation First Casualty
LOCATION:Event volunteers gather at NW corner of Union Square (at the SF heart - 
 look for others in white Tshirts). at 10:30 for breakfast.  Event starts 
 promptly at 11 am and people must be in place at that time.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/11/23/18552657.php
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