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First posted: 9/27/2006 11:15:00 PM

Police have arrested anti-war protestors who refused to leave a local congressman’s office.

Seven people were arrested inside the Cincinnati office of Congressman Steve Chabot Wednesday night.

The protestors say they were representing the will of the American people.

The group called the Greater Cincinnati Declaration of Peace Coalition arrived around 1 p.m. this afternoon and had the office fax a “National Declaration of Peace” to Chabot in Washington, D.C..

He did not sign it, so the group sang songs, read names of Ohio servicemen killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and rang a gong, all in hopes it would change the congressman’s mind.

“It was a national effort,” said Kristen Barker, of the Greater Cincinnati Declaration of Peace Coalition. “Today people were sitting in in congress-people’s offices around the country in an effort to end the war in Iraq and bring the troops home.”

At 8 p.m. when the office staff was leaving, the protestors refused to leave, so they called police to remove them.

The ages of the seven protestors arrested ranged from 15 to 78-years-old.