[R-G] Anti-war demo disrupts UN session

[ProletarianNews]

Reuters. 21 October 2002. Protest against war on Iraq disrupts U.N.
session.

UNITED NATIONS -- Some 13 young people were turned over to New York
police on Monday after shouting slogans in the U.N. General Assembly
hall against U.S. war plans for Iraq, U.N. officials said.

A short time later six other demonstrators chanted in front of the U.S.
Mission to the United Nations, across the street from U.N. headquarters.

They were arrested when they sat on the steps of the building.

At the United Nations, the 13 demonstrators entered the public gallery
of the cavernous General Assembly hall as part of a public tour and
began to shout.

U.N. security guards removed them and turned them over to police on
complaints of disorderly conduct, assembly spokesman Richard Sydenham
said.

However, the assembly session, called to elect new members of the
International Court of Justice, was suspended at the time and there was
no meeting taking place, he said.

A group calling itself "No Blood for Oil!" issued a news release saying
it had occupied the U.N. Security Council chamber, a far smaller room at
the opposite end of the landmark United Nations compound along
Manhattan's East River.

The group said it had made several demands of the United Nations
including an immediate lifting of U.N. economic sanctions against Iraq
and a U.N. denial of permission for an invasion of Iraq at any time.

In its news release, No Blood for Oil! said it was a coalition of
activists "pledged to resist the U.S. push for war through direct
action."

"We call on all Americans to do everything in their power to stop
aggression against Iraq," the group said.

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