Begin at 10:00 am
Opening Comments -- 3 minutes -- MC Doug Milhous
Interfaith prayers -- 10 minutes (organized Karen Stanley from IWJP)
Memorial Ceremony – 5 minutes
Poem - Read by Doug Bennett
Speech Phil Dynan -- 10 minutes
Speech Abu Salahuddin -- 10 minutes
Vision of Peace Ceremony -- 10 minutes
Heart Sung Choir -- 7 minutes
Student Speeches -- 10 minutes
Speech Doug Milhous -- 10 minutes
Entertainment -- 30 minutes (Larry Harris, Pamela Spoto, Tienne Beaulieu, and others)
Closing Comments by CRG Rep -- 3 minutes
Closing song -- sing along -- 3 minutes
Potluck Lunch -- starting at noon
Possible informal entertainment
Peace Memorial over at 2:00 pm
Meanwhile in Sacramento - Potter & Activist John Reiger among those arrested:
Iraq War Protestors Arrested At Matsui's Office
March 22, 2007
SACRAMENTO — Anti-war protesters who have occupied the district office of Rep. Doris Matsui since early January ended their sit-in Thursday but didn't go quietly.
The activists spent much of the day inside the office shouting the names of U.S. military members who have died in the Iraq war. They refused to leave at 5 p.m. because they hadn't finished reading the list, which contains more than 3,000 names.
"Maybe it's a little disruption they should be able to stand because of all the destruction this war is causing," protester Cres Vellucci said.
Vellucci was one of seven activists taken into custody by Federal Protective Service agents. They were cited for refusing to leave the building and released soon after.
The protesters were given the option of leaving on their own or being arrested, said Randy Becker, chief deputy for the U.S. Marshal's Service.
Members of the Sacramento Coalition to End the War have occupied Matsui's office during business hours since Jan. 8, their numbers ranging from three to nearly two dozen. They want Matsui to oppose an appropriations bill that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The congresswoman, a Democrat, opposes the war but does not want to cut money for troops on the battlefield. She spoke in favor of the bill Thursday, supporting its provision setting a timetable for withdrawal while saying she favors an even earlier deadline.
Matsui's chief of staff, Joe Trahern, said in a statement late Thursday that she allowed the activists to conduct the 52-day sit-in because she "shares their anger over the debacle in Iraq," but not their call to cut off all funding for the war.
"Funding for the Iraq war is a legitimate subject of debate. But to make such a broad, sweeping commitment on the most important issue facing this country would be to ignore her responsibility as a member of Congress," Trahern said.
The sit-in has been largely cordial, with activists arriving each workday morning at Matsui's downtown Sacramento office. Her staff offered them coffee and water and asked them to follow a few basic ground rules to maintain civility.
Those ground rules were broken Thursday when more than a dozen activists disrupted office workers, shouted and refused to leave at the end of the work day, according to Matsui's statement.
The sit-in had been scheduled to end Thursday to coincide with the start of debate over the appropriations bill in the House.
Vellucci, 58, didn't apologize for the high-volume farewell.
"She's shown us that she doesn't truly want this war to end," he said, adding that the coalition planned further actions against Matsui and hoped to find a candidate to challenge her in the 2008 Democratic primary.
As of Thursday, an Associated Press count shows that at least 3,230 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003. Vellucci said he did not know how many names the activists read before they were forced from the office.
