July 15th, 2008 By Justin Williams
Nothing to Do Tomorrow? Go Protest I-69!
I’ve been remiss in writing about the happenings with I-69 in the past few days. There were a few more arrests over the weekend up in Gibson county for blocking the entrance to an asphalt plant. It seems like a relatively peaceful form of protest with 13 people just standing around not letting trucks in. Unfortunately, that is illegal.
The fun continued with these folks, however, as they have refused to give their names to police. Without names, charges can’t be pressed and they shall forever be sitting in a jail cell. As a response to the arrests, friends of the protesters have been jamming the phone lines protesting the arrests of the protesters (how meta).
That brings us to tomorrow. There is a groundbreaking ceremony tomorrow morning at 10:30 AM near The Centre. Anticipating the arrival of more protesters, fencing has been set up to keep the protesters back from the ceremony. There will also be quite a police presence.
I can’t make it tomorrow because of a prior engagement, but if you are going, I want video, audio, photography, etc. If you shoot it, I’ll publish it.
Happy protesting!
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Ness
July 15, 2008 @ 03:46PM
I don’t get it… what’s the problem with I-69? Sounds pretty dang fantastic to me.
Jenna
July 15, 2008 @ 07:57PM
apparently we are hurting the environment. who knows.
Nice, the protest will be right around the corner from me at CMOE….score
gmwong
July 16, 2008 @ 10:23AM
The protests weren’t that great. They obviously don’t care enough to make a big scene. The Police presence was pretty serious though….
I support the road, but I don’t support the fact that they went a got a load of dirt from the site to break ground for the simple fact that it cost a load of taxpayer money. Asshats.
jugrock
July 16, 2008 @ 12:03PM
According to the ECP:
“The private event is being organized and paid for by Hoosier Voices for I-69, an affiliate of the Southwest Indiana Chamber of Commerce, and is not paid for through tax dollars.”
Jenna
July 16, 2008 @ 03:03PM
all I know is that I had to detour around the center b/c all the roads were blocked off
Justin Williams
July 16, 2008 @ 03:10PM
I just saw a clip on the news of the ceremony. Seemed pretty lame to me. If they couldn’t do it at the construction site, why not just skip the formalities and just start building.
Oh that’s right, because we have to have the photo op.
Teresa
July 16, 2008 @ 04:13PM
My favorite photo ops were the sharpshooters on the rooftop of The Centre and Central Library. Pretty frickin scary.
cody
July 17, 2008 @ 01:29PM
this is worthless without pics!~
Midgetqueen
July 26, 2008 @ 07:59AM
I was there. There was also a gaggle of about 30-40 riot police. I got pics but they’re from my camera phone and therefore not much good.
p.s. here’s one for the list of Fun Things to Say around Riot Police: “Ooh! Nice outfits! Are you guys going to play paintball? Can we play too?