Students sit to take a stand: 4 D.M. war opponents who refuse to leave Grassley’s office are arrested
By Abby Simmons
Staff Writer
Des Moines Register
Published September 22, 2007
Keyboards clacked as staff worked in U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley’s downtown Des Moines headquarters. And, still, the kids sat in a circle on the floor of the small office, talking war and peace while passing around a copy of Thomas Merton’s “The Nonviolent Solution.”
Discount the out-of-place setting - and the eventual arrest and criminal trespass charges filed against four Des Moines high school students who refused to leave the Republican’s office in protest of the Iraq war - and it was just another peace meeting.
