{"id":818,"date":"2007-03-16T23:55:09","date_gmt":"2007-03-17T04:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=818"},"modified":"2024-05-04T13:09:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T20:09:46","slug":"friday-video-peace-witness-for-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=818","title":{"rendered":"Friday video: Peace witness for Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Although this was originally posted on Monday, March 19, I’m backdating this post to Friday, March 16, so you can find the video by looking for the date of the event. This “street videography” gives my take on the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq that took place on March 16. The video is maybe a little too impressionistic, but I wanted to try to capture the feeling of what it was like to actually be there — boredom and all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quicktime video — Click link, and where it says “Select a format” choose “Source — Quicktime”. Wait until the file downloads to your computer, and then click play. This should work for dial-up connections, and offers higher-resolution for all connections.<\/s><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update:<\/em><\/strong> Lots of links to blog and media coverage of the Peace Witness at the Faith in Public Life blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update:<\/em><\/strong> Coverage from the Washington Post<\/em>, Saturday, March 17, 2007 (front page of Metro section):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rousing emotional start for war protest<\/strong>
\nArrests made at White House…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Steve Vogel and Clarence Williams<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dozens of demonstrators, many of the Christian peace activists, were arrested outside the White House late last night and early this morning as a part of a protest against teh war in Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 11:30 p.m., police began handcuffing the first of about 100 protesters who had assembled on the White House sidewalk to pray in a planned act of civili disobedience. [Note: arrests continued after reporters left, and over 200 people were eventually arrested.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The protesters were part of a larger group that had assembled at the Washington National Cathedral for a service on the fourth anniversary of the start of the war. From the service, demonstrators marched through the wind, cold, and dampness to the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The demonstration began a weekend of protest that is to include a march on the Pentagon today. Last night’s event, which was sponsored by more than two dozen religious groups, was not part of today’s antiwar rally at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who were arrested had been among almost 3,000 people who assembled at the cathedral at 7 p.m. for a rousing, emotional service that lasted more than 90 minutes. [The reporters apparently missed the fact that there were between 500-700 people gathered at N.Y. Ave. Presbyterian Church who were also worshipping.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participants, whom the cathedral staff numbered at 2,825, heard speakers including Celeste Zappala of Philidelphia, whose son was killed in Iraq in 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I am here tonight as a witness to the true cost of war,” she said, “the betrayal and madness that is the war in Iraq.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We lay before God the sorrow that lives in all of us because of the war,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last night’s procession was sponsored by Christian Peace Witness for Iraq….<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The rest of the article (more than half of it) goes on to preview the ANSWER coalition action scheduled for Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although this was originally posted on Monday, March 19, I’m backdating this post to Friday, March 16, so you can find the video by looking for the date of the event. This “street videography” gives my take on the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq that took place on March 16. The video is maybe a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,2,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice-peace","category-liberal-religion","category-vlog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8361,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/8361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}