From: "Action Center" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:48:32 -0400 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [IAC] C-SPAN TO REBROADCAST 8-20 PRESS CONFERENCE 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.* _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
