11 arrested in protest at Sen. Bernie Sanders's office over war in Ukraine

[lapucelle]

Eleven antiwar protesters were arrested Wednesday after they occupied the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Capitol Hill to demand the senator support efforts at diplomacy over sending further U.S. aid, such as weapons, to Ukraine.

Capitol Police arrested the 11 people inside the Dirksen Senate Office Building under a D.C. code that prohibits crowding, obstructing or incommoding, a Capitol Police spokesperson said. The code is often cited when arresting protesters during peaceful planned acts of civil disobedience.

The protesters, who were with the antiwar group Code Pink, were advocating for Ukrainian, Russian and U.S. leadership to negotiate an end to the war, the group said in a news release.

“Yes, Bernie should condemn the Russian invasion, but he should also be calling for a negotiated end to this brutal war,” Crystal Zevon, from Barnet, Vt., said in the news release.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/10/04/bernie-sanders-code-pink-ukraine-aid-protest-arrest/

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Progressive activists bring Ukraine war protests to congressional offices

More than 50 progressive activists marched across Capitol Hill on Wednesday to protest the war in Ukraine and call on lawmakers to push the Biden administration to negotiate an end to the war.

At least 11 of the protesters were arrested outside the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) after congressional aides demanded they end a sit-in inside the senator’s office. Several senior citizens, including a handicapped elderly woman, were either handcuffed by officers or escorted out.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4238832-progressive-activists-bring-ukraine-war-protests-to-congressional-officies/

[tanyev]

1. If the Russian position is that Ukraine belongs to Russia, how in the world do you negotiate an end?

There is no negotiation that current leadership of Russia would accept that didn't involve ceding of Ukrainian territory to Russia. And if they accepted a negotiation that gave them only part of Ukraine, they would retreat and rebuild and try again later to get all of it.

[gab13by13]

2. I listened to Malcolm Nance last week on Stephanie Miller

Let me just put it this way, he was not very complimentary of Code Pink.

[Ace Rothstein]

3. Code Pink is an open advocate of genocide at this point.

[tritsofme]

4. Putin's useful idiots.

[markie]

5. embarrassed

for some of Vermont... negotiate???

[chouchou]

6. Groups like Pink Code believe and think that monies...

...spent on helping Ukraine would/should go to other projects for the betterment of society.
Unfortunately, those "Saved Monies" would go to pork projects/Politicians/tax cuts for the wealthy or
large corporations or God knows where. (Actually, God wouldn't even know where it went)

[lapucelle]

8. Welcome to DU!

I read profiles.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=180543

[chouchou]

9. Thank you so much!

[lapucelle]

10. Monies for Ukraine come out of the Defense Budget.

Isn't it remarkable that groups like Code Pink are not only so ill-informed, but that they are also so busy spreading that misinformation.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=180543

[chouchou]

12. I suspected that the monies came from the defence budget but...

..forgot about that until you remined me. Thanks!

[Takket]

7. Diplomacy? Putin will settle for nothing less than the genocide of the Ukrainian people

[FelineOverlord]

11. Crystal Zevon

Strangely, I just read her book about her late husband.

https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/local/2014/04/21/activist-crystal-zevon-wants-wake/7867563/

Anyway, how can you “negotiate” with Vlad the Invader? He’s a madman.

Weirdly, some of the pro-Russia types (some of which are lefties who miss The Soviet Union) have been accusing us of being “pro-war” because we support Ukraine. I always tell them we are NOT pro-war. PUTIN was the one who invaded.

[yardwork]

13. There's a lot of Putin propaganda influencing the left.

Some of the folks who are receptive to Putin's propaganda are straight up tankies, but many others are just lefties of various persuasions who get inundated with propaganda online.

Trying to reason with them is just as hopeless as reasoning with MAGATs.