Tacoma Mall Shutdown
Tacoma Mall / Military Recruiting Center Parking Lot
Saturday March 15 2008
12:30 PM

Why Protest at the Mall?

Because Tacoma has so few community spaces, the mall has become one of the key cultural, economic, social hubs of Pierce County

The Tacoma Mall is the single most trafficked site in Tacoma

The mall and the recruiting center on its property target youth: the mall for their allowances and the military for their lives

Make it impossible for business as usual to continue as the Iraq War approaches its 5th year.

Everyone is invited to bring literature to distribute and to be creative!

Here is what the military is putting out…..

Recommend that DOD affiliated personnel, family members, retirees and civilians avoid the Tacoma Mall area on 15 March 2008 from 1200 to 1730 hours.

Local protest groups have announced their intention to shutdown the Tacoma Mall and the recruiting station located at the mall to call attention to the upcoming anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. They want to “Make it impossible for business as usual to continue as the Iraq War approaches its 5th year.”

Anticipated activities include distributing ant war and anti military literature, confront local recruiters or persons trying to enter their facilities, and attempts to interact with soldiers, family members and/or civilians who appear to be military or have DOD decals on their vehicles.

Recent protests against the war at the Port of Olympia have been marked by increased levels of violence. DOD personnel, family members and civilians should avoid contact, to include conversations or dialogue with protesters. Protesters may be filming activities for reporting in independent media or use in legal actions.

Commanders and supervisors should strongly encourage their soldiers, family members, and civilians to avoid the Tacoma Mall area during this time and to report incidents of violence to local police.

For incidents of violence, call 911
For non-critical information, contact Washington State Police at (253) 536-6210 or Tacoma Police Department at (253) 594-7800.

Looks like there will be a bunch of hippies hanging out in a parking lot.

Here was their last “protest”. They should get jobs.

Losers.