It says its top priority "is to safely and effectively bring a resolution to this protest" and it urged the protesters to vacate the land.
-What was the official government position and response to this protest?
Did the nuns the ones who gave public-school pupils like me "religious instruction" each Wednesday afternoon put us up to this protest?
Photograph courtesy White House Public Opinion Mail / John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Did the nuns — the ones who gave public-school pupils like me "religious instruction" each Wednesday afternoon — put us up to this protest?
"Your statements are especially concerning given the threatening rhetoric from senior members of the Indonesian security forces in relation to this protest".
Note that the police response to this protest was likely less violent than it would have been without the statements of the French, German and US governments during the preceding week in support of the right of Algerians to protest.
(Two thousand people have committed to this protest, which will end Sept. 3. Watch this video for footage of the sit-in and an interview with McKibben about why he and the other activists are there).
"The regime made significant progress in terms of convincing people in Syria and abroad that there was an armed component to this protest movement and that its security forces were very much focused on that component," he added.
And another, from NatalieNY: I am disappointed to find you referring to this protest as anti-capitalist which has a negative and alienating connotation, and which is a dangerously false label.
People came from all over the country to this protest.
