Sei nicht meschugg, Joe...

A cry falling on deaf ears if ever there was one.

DC Indymedia: From Our "Well, DU-UUH!" Dept: Lieberman Refuses To Meet With Code Pink, Threatens Arrests Instead

Upon hearing these words, our own Leslie Angeline, a CODEPINK member who recently returned from a peace delegation to Iran, decided to go on a hunger strike until Senator Lieberman agreed to meet with us. "Seventy percent of the Iranian population is under the age of 30--the age of my son. Iran is a country of warm, kind, and generous people and their children. We cannot start bombing these kids," Leslie told us.

After first denying her request, Lieberman agreed to meet with us and CODEPINK in his Washington, DC office this Thursday at 4:30 pm EST. But just hours before the meeting, he abruptly cancelled.

Appalled, and unwavering in our determination to reach the senator, sixty of us showed up at the Senator's office at the original meeting time. We were a beautiful group of peace-loving people, including leaders from the Iranian community. But Lieberman was nowhere to be found.

Instead, his office called the police, who threatened to arrest us all. Finally, after hearing Leslie's heartfelt plea and seeing her tears, she and two others were allowed in to meet with Lieberman's chief of staff, legislative director, and aide on the Middle East. The rest of us organized a teach-in on Iran in the Senate Hart Building hallway.

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