the [alternate] patriot

Thursday, December 12, 2002

I'm glad they're doing what they're doing.

It sort of reminds me of the Sixties. I don't know if what we're doing with Iraq is right or not. But I'm glad these people are doing what they're doing. It's their right. --Don Dixon

Dixon, a Coventry resident who works in downtown Hartford, spoke with a reporter from the Hartford Courant as he observed 200 anti-war activists surround the Gold building, headquarters for United Technologies. It was a collaborative effort by college students, church groups and anti-war organizations to protest the Bush administration's stand on Iraq.

Fourteen of the group who blocked the entrance were arrested. Those arrested and the charges:

First-degree criminal trespass

Alexander Okrent, 19, of Evanston, Il.;

Lois Smith, 63, of North Branford;

Marcia Morris, 44, of Hartford;

Emily Douglas, 18, of Greenfield, Mass.;

Jaqueline Allen, 41, of Hartford;

Christopher Carmody, 19, of Hartford;

Zachary Goldstein, 19, of Rochester, N.Y.;

Karisa Butler, 19, of Seattle.

First-degree criminal trespass and interfering with police:

Alice Perry, 54, of New Haven;

Mary McTigue, 46, of Durham;

Roy Money, 57, of Hamden;

Carolyn Shaw, 58, of Middletown;

Naomi Goldenson, 19, of Pittsburgh.

Interfering with police:

John Humphries, 38, of Waterbury

Palema 6:17 AM

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