Click here for linkAnti-war protesters loosely affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement swarmed a Capitol Hill office building Tuesday afternoon, resulting in a handful of arrests and the temporary closure of the main floor of the building.
Activists rallied in the center of the Hart Senate Office Building to protest U.S. military actions as well as corporate influence in politics. U.S. Capitol Police arrested six of the protesters and charged them with “unlawful conduct — demonstrating in a Capitol Building,” according to a police spokesperson.
The protest was part of a coordinated effort by a group of activists currently occupying Liberty Plaza near the White House in Washington, D.C.
Protesters began trickling into the Hart building around 10:45 a.m. The building — the most modern of the Capitol offices — has a large, open atrium in the center and booming acoustics.
At 11:30 a.m., the atrium erupted with shouting as the protesters belted out such slogans as “end the wars” and “we are the 99 percent” — the latter being the rallying cry of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
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