WCSH6 NBC Portland, Maine
Sept. 21, 2006
About 50 people gathered in front of the Federal Building in Bangor Thursday afternoon to protest the war in Iraq. The group held a vigil to support the national Declaration for Peace campaign, asking for the withdrawal of all troops from Iraq.
Following the vigil, protesters marched up to Senator Olympia Snowe’s office in Bangor to ask the senator to sign the declaration for peace.
“We’re fullfilling our civic responsibility. We’re here in part because of a huge movement that’s going on across the country for the declaration of peace which has been delivered to all of our senators across the country and we have delivered it to all of our senators and congressmen and they’ve refused to sign it thus far,” said Dud Hendrick from Veterans For Peace.
Some of the protestors chose to stay in Senator Snowe’s office, risking arrest in an act of civil disobedience.