March 20, 2004 -- Fayetteville NC March & Rally
for Peace  -- 02

Late on March 17, we learned that these threats were not all words. The "Peace Truck," part of a Raleigh-based activist art project called Public Assembly, was vandalized under cover of darkness, right before it was to travel through nearby cities promoting the Fayetteville march.

Public Assembly's Joe McTaggart and his newly-created Peace Truck mural, on March 15.

The truck's windshield was smashed, the headlights broken out, and spraypaint defaced the new mural.

But the Public Assembly crew was not to be intimidated: the truck made its rounds anyway --getting a new windshield and headlights installed literally on the road -- and local media responded with wide coverage of the plans for the march.

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