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For two weeks, constant protests took place at the Port of Olympia, where Stryker vehicles were being brought to Fort Lewis from Iraq. The vehicles detained would not have the opportunity to be repaired and sent to Iraq.

In this video, two trucks carrying Stryker vehicles is stopped, and the driver placed on citizen's arrest for being complicit with war crimes.

Protests occurred at night when many of the shipments took place. Many soldiers gave protesters the thumbs up.

STOP WARS is a video montage of events that took place on November 11th. Two physical blockades were setup to prevent shipments. These blockades contained port activity for 18 hours. Riot police arrived and pepper-sprayed everyone. The protest moved to the streets where the military supplies were traveling on, including the entrance to I-5.

Police also confiscated personal belongings from protesters, as told in this video.

Later that Tuesday, hundreds of people arrived at the port to prevent the last shipments from the Port of Olympia. An all-women's blockade took place that night where a locked-line of women were dragged away one-by-one singing "the sisters united will never be defeated."

The same night as the women's blockade, police then used pepperspray and concussion grenades on activists. Very little footage from this exists, but from this video you can see a bit of what had happened Tuesday night.