[GPSCC-chat] number of protesters arrested

[Jim Doyle]

There is an article at  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/24
titled
Over Two Thousand Six Hundred Activists Arrested in US Protests
by Bill Quigley <http://www.commondreams.org/bill-quigley>

Since President Obama was inaugurated, there have been over two thousand 
six hundred
arrests of activists protesting in the US.   Research shows over 670 
people have been
arrested in protests inside the US already in 2011, over 1290 were 
arrested in 2010,
and 665 arrested in 2009.

The full list is included in the article starting with

January 1, 2011.  Nine women, ages 40 to 91, who brought solar panels to 
the
Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor were arrested for blocking the driveway at
Entergy Corporation.  Shut It Down.