Works In Progress


author : Eric Tompkins

Low Income Groups Protest State Budget

May 2005

Photo: April 13, 2005: Die-In at the State capitol

Olympia, WA -- 4/21/05 -- Seven sheet shrouded bodies laid on the ground while a trio of state patrol officers stood by waiting to act. Cardboard tombstones recorded the reasons for those that passed. Symbolizing victims whose deaths were caused by state cuts to programs for low income people, activists participated in a "Die In" on wednesday, April 13th, on the state capital campus.

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