Can we be linked to this group's website/email address? Although it has been many years since I protested this war, I would gladly put my money behind the efforts of these eight in helping to raise their bail.

Renee,

if you are able to help raise funds, folks could certainly use it - please go leave a comment on tc.indymedia.org and we will try to get you in touch.

Too bad Federal didn't just run the trucks over them. Also odd -- they were all kids. Perhaps wait until you've grown a bit and actually understand how the world works...until then, go back to Starbuck and play your MMOs.

If you want to donate to the Project to Stop The War Industry's legal fund you can contribute through our paypal account--projectatk@gmail.com

YOU PEOPLE MAKE ME SICK THAT YOU SUPPORT THESE IDIOT'S! ATK HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE WAR IN IRAQ! WHY DON'T YOU GO PROTEST IN IRAQ IF YOU WANT TO PUT YOUR BODIES ON LINE TRY GOING TO IRAQ OR ANY OTHER COUNTRY THAT WE ARE TRYING TO HELP AND SEE HOW WE ARE TREATED OVER THERE! IT'S SAD THAT WE RISK OUR LIVES SO YOU CAN PROTEST SOME AMMUNTION PLANT THAT MAKES MOST OF ITS SALES AND PROFITS FROM HUNTERS AND PRIVATE BUYERS! GET YOUR DAMN STORY STRAIGHT AND GET A LIFE OR A JOB OR MAYBE EVEN A GIRLFRIEND LOSER'S!

They all look so cute and sleepy...

I imagine that their hearts were in the right place, but I continue to be bothered by a protestors need to break the law. In addition to ignoring the laws of this land, which apparently are held to a double standard by them, I see this as a waste of community resources that might be needed for true emergencies elsewhere.

I think this is awesome. Realistically in order to create change and stop evil things some law breaking is necessary!

The means still do not justify the ends. There continues to be a double standard. By applying those "realities" that you describe, it is ok for someone to illegally tap your phone line in order to stop you from doing any illegal (evil) activity; and yet, this group would also lay down in front of the phone company to protest that...
Realistically they will not in actuality effect ANY change with this sort of activity.

I am relieved to see that these young people have a moral character that includes non-violent protest for peace. How fortunate we are to know that there is a new generation who cares enough to take reasonable, peaceful risks to express their desire for a peaceful world.

ATK makes weapons (in Anoka or at some other plant) from radioactive material, that is used against “the enemy” but its effect is wide spread to include innocent people in the area, and our own soldiers. Its radioactivity lives for generations in the dust. The dust is breathed in, and is in the food eaten. It lodges in the body and can effect the victim’s DNA. Post Iraq- war offspring of our soldiers have been born with severe birth defects. Do you know a returning soldier? He or she has less than a 50/50 chance of having a child with a birth defect. Maybe there is another reason to "Bring our Troops Home"

in response to "US soldier," it's a common misconception that companies like ATK "have nothing to do with the war." Over 70% of ATK's annual profit comes from government contracts, not the private sector, and the overwhelming majority of those are to produce armament for the Iraq war. ATK is the larger single supplier of bullets for the US military. There's no way to vote ATK out of existence. These kinds of actions are working to call attention to the economic incentive that war offers to big business, and the benefactors of armed conflict who are not the US and Iraqi citizens dying in it each day in order to demand an end to it. While these actions are largely symbolic, there are few other ways to confront and stop the war profiteering that's keeping us in Iraq. Ideas?

These kids say they are trying to stop the war industry, but seriously they really have no clue what's going on and are only making an ass of themselves. By all means carry on.

oh yeah tom, and what the hell do you know about it that the rest of us don't?!

I would like to express my profound gratitude to the anti-war protesters who put themselves on the line against munitions giant Alliant Tech Systems. I would also like to honor the protesters who go to Alliant headquarters week after week in an effort to derail what is truly a war machine.

Alliant Techsystems (ATK) is the world’s major producer of depleted uranium weapons (“high density penetrators”) and other savage devices. It makes bullets, tank shells, and cluster bombs. Depleted uranium is insidious because it vaporizes and can then be inhaled or otherwise ingested, contaminating people indefinitely. Gulf War Syndrome may be one result of the use of depleted uranium. In an article entitled, “Deaths from Radioactive Munitions Fired in Middle East may Exceed A-Bombing of Japan,” author Sherwood Ross quotes scientist Leuren Moret as saying, “The genetic future of the Iraqi people for the most part, is destroyed.”

ATK is disingenuous when it claims to want to protect its workers because it is needlessly exposing them to radioactivity. It will not release medical studies of the depleted uranium production workers at the facility in Arden Hills.

Depleted uranium is visited upon civilians and soldiers alike. It poisons the environment far into the future.

The Nuremberg Tribunal, Geneva Conventions, The Hague Regulations, and numerous other international treaties collectively require that civilians must not be harmed in wartime and that after the war there cannot be continuing destruction visited upon people or the environment. Alliant Tech is in clear, incontrovertible violation of these fundamental treaties. It must cease and desist weapons production immediately or be brought before the International Criminal Court at The Hague for war crimes.

Regardless of whether we agree with these protestors or not, I applaud them for taking action instead of sitting on the couch and complaining about the world. If everyone took action for the things they believe in, we truly would have a better society.

Jesica Dolin
Portland, OR