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Republican National Convention Coverage - Aug. 29, 2004 |
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30 Aug 2004
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Breaking reports from U-C IMC reporters on the streets in NYC covering protests against the RNC on Aug. 29, 2004 -- in reverse chronological order:
5:20pm CDT Brief update call from Central Park reports 10-20,000 people converged on Central Park. Atmosphere is calm.
4:50pm CDT Third report in from the NYC streets.
March ended and UC-IMC reporters started heading toward Central Park. Atmosphere continued to be festive -- lots of drums and people on rollerskates.
Elsewhere in the city, there are mass arrests going on at 46th and Broadway. Between 100-150 people have been arrested. Legal observers are also being arrested.
3:00pm CDT Second report in from UFPJ march. March was halted briefly due to fire in front of the convention center. Fire was put out with no injuries reported. March continued but was split up due to streets being blocked. Protesters are making their way to Central Park.
12:50pm CDT First report back from UCIMC reporter at the United for Peace and Justice march. Atmosphere is festive and chill, with no police in sight. |
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Re: Republican National Convention Coverage - Aug. 29, 2004 |
by eugean17
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30 Aug 2004
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This summer’s cynical media circuses, the Democratic and Republican national presidential conventions, have a sinister overlay, as the Homeland Security department decreed both “special security events.” These red-white-and-blue capitalist spectacles—whose platforms are nonbinding, whose delegates decide nothing, and whose nominees, John Kerry and George Bush, are predetermined—are surrounded by massive state surveillance. Inside the Democratic National Convention (DNC), it looked a lot like a Republican rally, as after the liberals pushed the “anybody but Bush” line all year, what they got was a candidate trying to out-Bush Bush in flag-waving tough-cop rhetoric. John Kerry promptly embraced the 9/11 Commission Report, with its appalling bipartisan proposals to ratchet up state repression, stating on July 27, “I will and I can wage a more effective war on terror than George Bush.”
http://www.icl-fi.org/ENGLISH/2004/Elex-830.html |
