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NWTRCC in Chicago, May 18–20, 2012
We joined the NATO protest on Sunday, May 20, and attended the Voices for Creative Nonviolence program on Saturday, May 19, featuring a talk by David Swansen.
Gary Erb (Col.), Bill Glassmire (Ore.), hands and feet of Naomi Paz Greenberg (N.Y.), Pam Allee (Ore.), Rick Bickhart (Va.), and Erica Weiland (Wash.) holding our banner at the entrance to the rally. We got a lot of attention in this spot.
Chicago host Brad Lyttle (left) was also a peace keeper for the rally and march.
Erica gets in some outreach.
Rahm Emanuel seems to think well-armed police are the best way to advertise “Chicago is My Kind of Town.” Why couldn’t he have welcomed antiwar protests, since a majority of people in this country are opposed to the war in Afghanistan.
Lead banner for the Sunday protest.
Jesse Jackson before he spoke at the rally.
Daniel Sicken (Vt.) did a great job handing out our “SIck of paying for war?” flyers. We got this post-weekend report from Mark at Christian Peacemaker Teams in Chicago: “Somebody handed someone who attends my church a little flyer re: NWTRCC, and my friend came to me and wanted more info about war tax resistance in general. The flyers work!”
John Klotz, war tax resister in Iowa, brought his own sign.
At the Voices for Creative Nonviolence program, May 19, 2012:
Pam Allee from Portland, Oregon, chats with speaker David Swansen after his talk.
Chicago resister Joffre Stewart with Madison (Wisconsin) Area WTR member Paula Rogge.
Judith Kelly (Virginia) was in town for the Voices for Creative Nonviolence reunion, but she is also a NWTRCC friend, so we were glad to meet up with her at the Saturday event. Clare Hanrahan, right, was at the NWTRCC gathering from Asheville, N.C.
We posed on the steps of the 57th Street Quaker Meeting after our business meeting ended on Saturday, May 19.
Photos by Ruth Benn