This Saturday at 9 a.m., Eric Proffitt is going to go for a run. The Canadian-American singer-songwriter will drape himself with 10 pounds of chains, climb the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and then set off on a 15-day sprint to New York, his chains lapping his sides. Then he’ll fly to London and run to Hull. Why is he doing this, you ask?
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Carolyn Zolbe has been interviewed by City Paper before. “I was in a bright red coat,” she says. Is that your trademark? I ask. “That’s my winter coat!” she says, laughing.

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Dick Retta’s been out in front of the Planned Parenthood on 16th Street NW since 8:30 this morning. He’s here every Wednesday and Saturday. “That’s when they do the abortions,” he says. Today’s pretty quiet—when I rode up, Retta was the only person outside the building. “I think they’re doing a training today,” he says. The training is purportedly about providing health care for women, but’s its really teaching women how to murder their children, he says.

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