ASSOCIATED PRESS
Aug. 13, 2000 | An activist dressed in a pink pig costume dumped four tons of animal
manure from a truck Saturday in front of a hotel housing guests attending the
Democratic National Convention.
Elsewhere, anti-abortion activists and immigrant rights advocates organized small
protests, the first in a week of demonstrations expected to draw thousands during the
convention that starts Monday.
At the Wilshire Grand Hotel, about 10 people from People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals stood on the sidewalk as the activist dumped the manure in the hotel driveway.
Some wore the same full-body pig costumes and carried placards that read, "Meat is
murder."
Police impounded the truck and arrested the driver, Sean McKinney Diener, 20, of
Layton, Utah. He was booked for illegal dumping, a misdemeanor.
City workers and hotel employees cleaned up the 5-foot by 10-foot spill with shovels
and trashcans.
In February, the group performed a similar stunt outside a restaurant where Republican
presidential candidate George W. Bush had just eaten breakfast.
In other protests Saturday:
-- Nearly 30 anti-abortion demonstrators marched around the site of the convention
carrying poster-sized pictures of aborted fetuses.
-- Activists protesting U.S. immigration policies set up 553 white crosses in a church
parking lot to commemorate people who have lost their lives crossing the U.S.-Mexico
border since the 1994 inception of Operation Gatekeeper, a crackdown that pushed
illegal traffic to more remote and treacherous areas.
About 50 people, nearly a dozen of them dressed in ceremonial Mexican outfits, danced
and marched in a protest outside Vice President Al Gore's downtown office.
The National Chicano Moratorium Committee sponsored the rally about three blocks from
Staples Center, where the convention will take place, to call for undocumented-worker
amnesty and a stronger Hispanic voice in government.
Rudy Pisani, 61, of Los Angeles, held a banner that read, "Democrats and Republicans
-- Executioners of Latin Americans."
Other protesters prepared for demonstrations outside Staples Center by making banners,
picket signs and large, satiric puppets at their headquarters near MacArthur Park.
A day earlier, a federal judge ruled that police could only enter that building if
they had a search warrant or during an emergency. The decision came in response to the
American Civil Liberties Union's complaint that the headquarters, named the
Convergence Center, had been a target of police harassment.
The department earlier was ordered to shrink a security zone around the Staples Center
to allow demonstrators to be nearer to delegates.
Police Chief Bernard Parks joined activists Saturday to pay tribute to children slain
by violence and to call for greater restrictions on guns. Parks and his wife, Bobbi,
added a pair of ballet shoes belonging to their 20-year-old granddaughter Lori
Gonzalez, who was gunned down outside a fast-food restaurant, to more than 200 pairs
of shoes from young victims of gun violence.
"When people say guns don't kill people, they're not being truthful," Parks said.
"Guns do kill and they kill at a very high rate."
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The end is in the means as the tree is in the seed.
- Mahatma Ghandi
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Abraham Lincoln, letter to Wm. F. Elkins Nov. 21 1864
Arthur Shaw ed. The Lincoln Encyclopedia 40 {1950}
"We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing
it's end. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and
blood.........It has indeed been a trying hour for the
Republic, but I see in the near future a crisis approaching
that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety
of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been
enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will
follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to
prolong it's reign by working on the prejudices of the
people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the
Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety
for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the
midst of war."
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