Significant numbers are still turning out for anti-RNC protests,
but disparate, largely impromptu gatherings and actions meet with
overbearing law enforcement responses. Police arrest 1,100 on
Tuesday.
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New York City , Aug 31, 2004 - Thousands participated in
organized civil disobedience and spontaneous protests in still
another day of demonstrations surrounding the Republican National
Convention in New York City. Today’s actions, loosely coordinated
and spread throughout Manhattan, were met by a massive and
intolerant police force. Police arrested hundreds of nonviolent
protesters in what one civil rights lawyer dubbed a clear policy of
"pre-emption."
A decentralized conglomeration of groups, calling itself A31,
planned many of today’s protests and said they intended to engage in
nonviolent "direct action" and other forms of peaceful protest to
call attention to the casualties of war and war profiteering,
protest the corporate media’s role in disinformation, and generally
interfere with the visits of RNC delegates.
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