http://www.kval.com/news/local/131324064.html?ref=guiltypleasures
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Early Friday evening Chris Hardman, a marathon organizer, stood in front of a group of at least 100 protesters and spoke to them using a megaphone.
"Our preference would be for you to not be in the red zone during race day," he said. "If you want to help us in the best fashion you could, that would be our request. Now, I understand that's a request."
Hardman said if protesters want to stay, marathon organizers will work with that; however, the area will be secured on Sunday with those fences and black curtains. That means once protesters leave they will not be able to get back in. This would start in the early morning hours Sunday and last until three or four in the afternoon.
Marathon organizers have a permit to be in the park for this weekend’s race; protesters, however, do not.
http://tdn.com/news/state-and-regional/washington/article_6ef19995-fe23-5b94-8989-ff09637a7847.html
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The Occupy Seattle demonstration at Seattle's downtown Westlake Park is expected to grow Friday with support from union members and anti-war marchers.
Washington State Labor Council spokeswoman Kathy Cummings told The Seattle Times "It's their movement, but it's our message."
Tents went up in the park last weekend in support of New York's Occupy Wall Street demonstration against corporate political power. Seattle police arrested about two-dozen people Wednesday for refusing to remove tents, which aren't allowed in the park.
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn said the city would allow protesters to camp overnight at City Hall Plaza, which has restrooms.
Another demonstration is expected to hit downtown Seattle Friday afternoon with an anti-war march on the 10th anniversary of the Afghanistan War. Those protesters also plan to rally at Westlake Park.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016440758_westlake08m.html
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Antiwar demonstrators join Occupy Seattle protesters
About 250 people rallied at Westlake Park on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, joining forces with another 200 or so protesters of the Occupy Seattle movement.
Seattle Times staff reporters
GREG GILBERT / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Protesters perform a "Die-in" at Westlake Park. Among the group of demonstrators Friday afternoon was 90-year-old Lyle Mercer, a pacifist and World War II veteran. "This is what keeps me young," Mercer told a reporter about attending the antiwar rally.
MARK HARRISON / THE SEATTLE TIMES
An antiwar protest merges with the Occupy Seattle group as they march down Pine Street in Seattle on Friday afternoon from Seattle Central Community College to Westlake Park downtown. The two demonstrations totaled about 450 people. No arrests were reported.
They were young and old, and a few were very old.
About 250 people rallied at Westlake Park in downtown Seattle on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, joining forces with another 200 or so protesters of the Occupy Seattle movement.
Many college students took part, but the protesters with the most experience were probably Lyle Mercer, 90, a World War II veteran, and his wife, Barbara, 91.
"She was a nurse who took care of wounded veterans," said Mercer, of Seattle. "I served in Italy and in occupied Berlin."
Holding a cane and a megaphone and wearing a white cap that said, "Veterans for Peace," Mercer said, "We have opposed every American imperial war since 1950, when we invaded North Korea."
The couple also opposed U.S. military action "in a country that never lifted a finger against us — Vietnam," he said, where nearly 60,000 American soldiers died and more than 2 million Vietnamese lost their lives.
Now they oppose the conflict in Afghanistan.
A pacifist for 70 years, Mercer told the crowd he hoped they would enjoy "peace and economic justice" before they turned 90.
"This is what keeps me young," he later told a reporter.
Others at the rally railed against the "trillions of dollars" spent on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the more than 700 U.S. military bases across the world.
"If that isn't imperialism," said one speaker, "I don't know what is."
Before the rally, protesters marched down Pine Street from Seattle Central Community College to Westlake Park, escorted by police on motorcycles and bicycles.
There were no arrests, and traffic was stopped briefly at some intersections.
"We are sick and tired of war," said protest organizer Jane Cutter, who passed the megaphone to anyone who wanted to speak.
"I joined the Army and it turned me into an anarchist," said one woman, who declined to give her name, but said she joined the Army in 1993 right out of high school
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