First Pickles, now Miss Thang. Not everybody gets to go around in a bubble and have hand-picked, rehearsed audiences. That is apparently reserved for the King.
Demonstrators interrupted a speech by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday by recreating an image of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal in which a hooded prisoner stood with his arms outstretched attached to electric wires.
Amid tight security at San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall, three women and one man pulled on black hoods and cloaks and stood on their seats, acting out the scene caught in one of the photographs of abuse that undermined U.S. prestige abroad.
Reuters article
Wish I could have been there. One was Medea Benjamin, activist founder of
Global Exchange, the organization sponsoring the trip to Venezuela I was on in 2002. I keep waiting for the government to put Global Exchange on the terrorist organization list.
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