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TACOMA, Washington -- Trial dates were set today for eight defendants charged in Tacoma Municipal Court with various offenses stemming from the port militarization resistance (PMR) protests at the Port of Tacoma in March.

The protests, which continued for ten days, occurred when Fort Lewis moved equipment for the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division through the Port of Tacoma as part of President George W. Bush's unpopular "surge" of U.S. troops to Iraq. (To date, eighteen of the 4/2 Brigade's soldiers have lost their lives there.)

TACOMA, Washington -- On Wednesday afternoon, a Tacoma judge dismissed thirteen cases stemming from last March's antiwar protests on the grounds that the statute under which defendants were charged was inapplicable. Tacoma Municipal Court Judge Pro Tem Karl D. Haugh's ruling dropped to ten the number of still unresolved cases stemming from March 2007 port militarization resistance (PMR) protests during which police made a total of thirty-seven arrests.