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Article: 71 war protesters seized: Baltimore's tradition of civil disobedience continues in capital.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- September 27, 2006
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Byline: Liz F. Kay
Sep. 27--WASHINGTON -- The Rev. Andrew Foster Connors remained calm yesterday as a police officer put his hands in white plastic handcuffs and searched his pockets after he crossed a police line outside the U.S. Capitol. Less than an hour later, the Rev. Roger Scott Powers was also led away in handcuffs from the interfaith demonstration against the war in Iraq in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building.
The two Presbyterian ministers from Baltimore were among 71 people who were detained yesterday as they protested the war in Iraq -- and continued Baltimore's long tradition of civil disobedience against wars. "I was just ...