Soren Ambrose
M.Pugliese
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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-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 8:55 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:16119] Re: World Bank debate offer - not the first time
>Shown on CSPAN tonight, the representative from "50 Years is
>> Enough" was asked by Bloomberg News what would do about the crisis
>in
>> Argentina, their representative literally had no answer.
>==========
>The number for 50 Years is Enough is:
>
>tel: +1-202-463-2265
>
>
>
>
> And the groups
>> behind the lawsuit were asked whether they would distance themselves
>from
>> those who plan to use violence in the upcoming fall demonstrations
>and they
>> refused to do so.
>>
>> Stephen F. Diamond
>> School of Law
>> Santa Clara University
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>=========
>How do you distance yourself from the cops? Expect the media to get a
>lot more hostile in the weeks and months ahead.
>
>"What's *your* plan for eliminating poverty?"
>
>"Aren't *you* just being a bunch of know nothing armchair
>quarterbacks?"
>
>And the like will probably be standard fare.
>
>Ian
>
