Women's Pentagon Action November 16-17, 1980 Washington DC Assembly at Marie H Reed Community Center for workshops, music, planning;Blue London with American flag, neighborhood residents outside as women assemble for a rally, Day of the Action women arrive at assembly point. Motorcycle cops are spaced along the growing number of protesters. Women get ready for march through Arlington Cemetery, some face painting of nucleus sign on faces, woman dressed in black with white asian mask on holding infant to represent those harmed or killed by us nuclear attacks WW ll, walk through Arlington Cemetery past the white gravestones of military and others lost in war, cross over toward pentagon and women begin the action. Stages include Mourning for those women killed by violence, nuclear, racial, misogony, graveyard assembled with names of women and Bread and Puppet Mourning Puppet is there. We are Angry stage lots of yelling and rage at the system which created such loss and destruction, we are defiant stage is the non-violent Civil Disobedience stage. Affinity groups of women many from states in the northeast, Massachusetts, Vermont, New York some Florida others stake out a place. Some weave webs to block entrances to the massive pentagon. Women yell at military men and employees of the government. Women that do not move are eventually arrested and taken inside the pentagon and later to jail. Grace Paley, among those arrested. Earlier, the pentagon is surrounded, drummers including Deb Fire, make powerful music, women runners inform the group that the pentagon has been surrounded.