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San Francisco:Operation First Casualty Brings the War Home
Union Square in San Francisco was shopping ground zero in the city on “Black Friday.” It was also ground zero for Operation First Casualty, a guerrilla theater put on by Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). As thousands of shoppers and tourists walked by, former Iraq War veterans dressed in battle fatigues rounded up “suspects,” who were thrown to the ground, brutalized, and had imaginary guns pointed at their heads. The “suspects” were shoved to a staging area where they were yelled at and forced to kneel while black bags were placed over their heads. Later they were marched through the shopping district and finally led to a fountain where questions were yelled at them while their heads were submerged in the fountain. People from World Can’t Wait did a waterboarding demonstration.
Union Square in San Francisco was shopping ground zero in the city on “Black Friday.” It was also ground zero for Operation First Casualty, a guerrilla theater put on by Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). As thousands of shoppers and tourists walked by, former Iraq War veterans dressed in battle fatigues rounded up “suspects,” who were thrown to the ground, brutalized, and had imaginary guns pointed at their heads. The “suspects” were shoved to a staging area where they were yelled at and forced to kneel while black bags were placed over their heads. Later they were marched through the shopping district and finally led to a fountain where questions were yelled at them while their heads were submerged in the fountain. People from World Can’t Wait did a waterboarding demonstration.
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