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AIDS Activists: Arrest “Went Smoothly”
This morning, 26 national AIDS protesters were arrested under the Capitol building’s rotunda. At least four of the parties charged with “unlawful assembly and disorderly conduct” hail from the District’s own activist community.
At 10 a.m., the protesters convened in the building, chained themselves together with a white chain, and demanded that Congress recognize the need to fund the fight against AIDS. They then “marched in a circle before lying down on the floor.”
