From a comrade in Bahrain: "Yesterday a group of Bahraini youth gathered in front of the Bahrain-based US naval Fifth Fleet to express our outrage at the ongoing slaughter of the Palestinians. Addressing the Americans, our banner read: "you are complicit."
Since our protest is clearly illegal (the government wouldn't grant anyone a permit to protest anywhere in Manama, let alone this no-go zone), we chose not to publicize it, and hence our relatively small number (there was around 25 of us). Within 20 minutes the police showed up and asked us to leave. They also took a few of us in for questioning.
Here's a video of one of us reading our statement, which we've delivered to the Fifth Fleet:
The text of our statement can be found below and a couple of photos in the attachment. You may circulate these materials if you like."
Since our protest is clearly illegal (the government wouldn't grant anyone a permit to protest anywhere in Manama, let alone this no-go zone), we chose not to publicize it, and hence our relatively small number (there was around 25 of us). Within 20 minutes the police showed up and asked us to leave. They also took a few of us in for questioning.
Here's a video of one of us reading our statement, which we've delivered to the Fifth Fleet:
The text of our statement can be found below and a couple of photos in the attachment. You may circulate these materials if you like."
