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| meer als feature op indymedia.org | :) - 12.06.2003 01:55
http://www.indymedia.org/archive/features/current#9012 Several hundred protesters gathered at Bechtel headquarters in San Francisco at 7 AM Thursday and blockaded the entrances. The citizens targeted Bechtel for its billions of dollars in postwar 'reconstruction' contracts. While over a hundred police managed to open the building after a few hours, many Bechtel employees were told by their employer to take the day off. Reports: 1 | Photos: 1 2 3 4 5 It would be easier to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq these days than any shred of democracy. The U.S. has imposed a repressive occupation on the people of Iraq, where they shoot to kill at peaceful protesters and seek to destabilize any popular political group which gains support. Iraq is now a colonized land, with US-based corporations like San Francisco-based Bechtel leading the rape-for-profit charge. Many of the higher-ups at places like Bechtel are ex-military or somehow in bed with the Bush/Cheney cartel. | |
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