The recruiting protest last Friday went well. There is an article about it on mediamouse.org along with a video and some pictures. We also were on WOOD TV 8, although their story was little more than a free promo for the military.

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) participated in a radical youth contingent at today’s antiwar protest in Washington DC. The group marched through downtown DC and attempted to storm the capitol before continuing on to march to a nearby military recruiting station.

• More on the DC protests from the Washington DC Independent Media Center

The new documentary Iraq in Fragments will be shown at the UICA (41 Sheldon SE) and followed by a discussion with members of ACTIVATE. Tickets are $7 for non-members and $5 for members.

An opus in three parts, Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied. American director James Longley spent more than two years filming in Iraq to create this stunningly photographed, poetically rendered documentary of the war-torn country as seen through the eyes of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.