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CopePink brought roughly one hundred people to the White House to demand that the Pentagon’s budget be cut.
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Joined by other sponsors of the action in Lafayette Park, they cut up a large cake shaped like the Pentagon.
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Pieces of cake were passed to the crowd while speakers talked about the next stage in the anti-war movement.
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Afterwards they marched to the nearby McPherson Square.
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