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>From: Action Center <actioncenter at iacenter.org>
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>Date: 8/20/01 1:48:32 PM
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>FREE SPEECH LAWSUIT FILED REGARDING
>WASHINGTON DC ANTI-BUSH/IMF/WORLD BANK PROTESTS -
>Report on 8/20 press conference
>
>***C-SPAN will rebroadcast on C-SPAN 1 at 12:54 am, 3:21 am
>and 6:59 am (8/21).***
>
>Today, C-SPAN broadcast live a press conference held by
>plaintiffs in and attorneys for a free speech lawsuit
>regarding the September 29-30 demonstrations against the
>Bush administration, the IMF and World Bank.
>
>The press conference was held in conjunction with the filing
>of a complaint seeking injunctive relief against the
>unconstitutional attempts of police to create an exlusion
>zone in Washington DC during the weekend of September 29-30.
>This zone would be include two miles of 9-foot-high fencing
>and thousands of heavily armed police, and would surround
>the area of the White House, IMF and World Bank
>
>Speakers at the press conference were Mara
>Verheyden-Hilliard & Carl Messineo, Co-Founders, Partnership
>for Civil Justice; Brian Becker & Larry Holmes,
>Co-Directors, International Action Center; Bob Brown,
>Director, Kwame Ture Work Study Institute & Library; Soren
>Ambrose, 50 Years is Enough Network; Cherrene Horazuk,
>Nat'l. Coordinator, Comm. In Solidarity with the
>People of El Salvador; and Mervyn Marcano, International
>Action Center Youth Committee.
>
>*See www.cspan.org for rebroadcasting information. Press in
>attendance included CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, AP, Itar-Tass,
>Univision, NPR, Bloomberg Radio, UPI, Fox News, Washington
>Post and the DC Independent Media Center. See
>www.beatbackbush.org and www.iacenter.org for additional
>press coverage.*
>
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