Marine Recruiting Center Leaving Berkeley: Agreement Reached with Landlord, City, and Protesters
WHEN: Tuesday, April 1, 12 noon
WHERE: Marine Recruiting Station, 64 Shattuck Square, Berkeley
WHO: Sasha Shamszad, landlord; Marines Manpower Division representative; CODEPINK spokesperson
Sasha Shamszad, landlord for the Marine Recruiting Center in Berkeley, has reached an amicable agreement with the Marines to redeploy from Berkeley. Details of the agreement will be outlined at the press conference.
"The situation was becoming untenable," says Mr. Shamszad. "The presence of the Marines sparking daily protests have had a negative impact on local businesses. The city has been forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in police overtime. And some groups have been calling for a national boycott of our city. So I sat down with representatives of the Marines and we worked out a solution."
"We just came out with a national productivity study by office, and the Recruiting Center in Berkeley was in the bottom ten percentile," says Michael Applegate, Director of the Marine Manpower Plans and Policy Division. "It's a three-person office in a high-rent district bringing in an average of only 1.4 recruits per month. This is just not a good use of taxpayer money. So we were happy to work out an agreement with Mr. Shamszad. For us, this has nothing to do with protests outside the station, but is simply an issue of strategic redeployment."
The protest group CODEPINK was delighted to hear the news. "While we still don't know the details, we are have happy to hear that the Marines will be closing their doors and respecting the anti-war values of the residents of Berkeley," said CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin.
CONTACT: Shamszad Realty, 510-848-4100
Marine Office of Manpower Plans and Policies, 703-784-9231
CODEPINK, 415-342-6409
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IF ONLY
if only we could do that in every school of any kind across America. NO MORE RECRUITERS anywhere. We could really carry a flag of peace and prosperity.
Code PINK created this hoax to bring out the media tomorrow
I hope every single reporter stays home because Code PINK has no crebility anymore. I've asked everyone I know, as a Berkeley resident, to stop by the USMC OSO and thank the staff for being there. Hopefully many will do so around noon.
As for me, bedtime. I have to get up and bake cookies tomorrow, before noon!
Baking Cookies?? Shouldn't YOU Be Signing Up??? . . .
Baking cookies?? Shouldn't YOU be signing up??? . ..
. . . or is that just for OTHER people's kidz??? . . ;-)
As more and more of BushCo's lies and deceptions are revealed to WE THE PEOPLE, CODE PINK's credibility grows exponentially every day . . .but maybe you dozed off in front of your FOX NEWS . .. for the past five years!!! . . .;-)
. . . six and a half if YOU started snoozing with the 9/11 False Flag operation that launched this BushCo Zionist Patriarchal Fascist coup d'etat . . .;-)
Gee, what these kidz wouldn't do for a "good night's sleep" . . .
"Hersh: children raped at Abu Ghraib, Pentagon has videos"
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/15/hersh-children-raped.html
. . . or maybe you are just on the BushCo/Rothschild,Inc payroll . . ."Anonymous" . . ;-)
"Military report: secretly ‘recruit or hire bloggers.’"
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/31/military-report-secretly-recruit-or-...
GO CODE PINK!!! Big Love from North Cackilacki!!! . . ;-)
"The children asked him if to kill was not a sin
'Not when he looked so fierce' his mommy butted in
If looks could kill it would have been us instead of him
All the children sing
Hey, Bungalow Bill
What did you kill, Bungalow Bill?"
- The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill by The Beatles
peace.
do me a favor and
GIVE WAR A CHANCE.
Great news!
But you forgot to add the World Can't Wait contact info! Lots of orange out in front of the recruiting station too! Oh, and they all got arrested.