Various anti war demos by students and CodePink for Peace

(5 Mar 2003) SHOTLIST;
Washington DC
1. "CodePink for Peace" members getting out of car in front of French Embassy
2. "CodePink for Peace" members walking
3. French Embassy sign panning to crowd
4. SOUNDBITE: (English), Medea Benjamin, Co- Founder of Code Pink for Peace:
"We are here to say thank you to the French government to standing up for peace. We believe that the French government is a real democracy because it's listening to the calls of its people for peace. We are here to say thank you and call in our own government, the US government, to do the same."
5. Various shots of crowd singing songs while holding antiwar and pro-French banners
6. "Code Pink for Peace" members presenting a flower bouquet to French Embassy officials
7. Crowd crossing street to meet with Russian Embassy officials
8. Russian Embassy sign panning to placard thanking the Russian government
9. SOUNDBITE: (English), John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies:
"We are also here to say that we feel the pressure the US government is putting on other nations to back it in the Security Council is wrong, that there are millions of Americans who joining with hundreds of millions of people around the world pressing for peace."
10. Pan from Yevgeniy Khorishko, Russian Embassy Press Officer to Cavanagh and crowd clapping
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yevgeniy Khorishko, Russian Embassy Press Officer:
"Russia is for the peaceful resolution for the Iraqi problem. And we think that only through peaceful means we can fully disarm Iraq. And that the main idea, that at this point is the inspections should go on. We have seen that Iraq has begun to cooperate and he has begun destroying its missiles and this process should continue."
12. Pull-out from Turkish Embassy sign to crowd
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Medea Benjamin, Co- Founder of Code Pink for Peace:
"Real democracies listen to their people's call for peace. Thank you for the Turkish parliament."
14. Wide-shot of crowd in front of the Turkish embassy
New York
15. Wide shot crowd of protestors gathered at Union Square
16. Protestors cheering
17. Flag waving (flag is upside-down on flagpole)
18. Wide shot of crowd in Union Square
19. Sign reading "Bomb Texas"
20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Brian Harris, ninth-grade student from Beacon School:
"This war is ridiculous and it really needs to be stopped and I think that if the students act and they see that the youth of the nation is acting against it, they might think twice."
21. Protestors dancing
22. Protestors clapping and chanting
23. Police put a protestor into police car
24. Police shoving protestors out of the street
25. Protestors on a subway car, en route to Hunter College from downtown, chanting anti-war slogans
26. Protestors on subway car chanting
27. Various of protestors at Hunter College
STORYLINE:
Protesters gathered in Washington and New York on Wednesday to protest against a possible war with Iraq.
In Washington, members of CodePink for Peace, a women's anti-war group, gathered outside the French, Russian, and Turkish embassies where they expressed their support for those three countries' anti-war stance in the Iraqi crisis.
Co-founder of the movement Medea Benjamin presented a flower bouquet with "veto" written over it, to the French Embassy officials.
Benjamin said France was a real democracy since it listened to its people's call for peace.
Others from the crowd chanted "vive la France."
At the Russian Embassy, press officer Yevgeniy Khorishko thanked the crowd for supporting Russia's position on Iraq.
Later the crowd also gathered outside the Turkish embassy.

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