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WASHINGTON - About 60 peaceful demonstrators, including several dressed as polar bears, were arrested outside the US Capitol on Monday protesting the Iraq war and global warming, authorities said.
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"People are being arrested out here because you (Congress) are not doing your job," antiwar activist Ann Wright shouted into a bullhorn. Demonstrators were arrested on charges of unlawful assembly and blocking entrances to the Capitol, which was ringed by members of the US Capitol Police. Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, a police spokeswoman, said, "We've had about 60 arrests." She said she had received no reports of violence. About half a dozen demonstrators dressed in fluffy white outfits held a banner reading, "Polar bears for solutions to war and global warming."
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REUTERS NEWS SERVICE
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