FREE SPEECH LAWSUIT FILED REGARDING WASHINGTON DC
ANTI-BUSH/IMF/WORLD BANK PROTESTS - Report on 8/20 press conference8/20/01
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,. Coordinator, Comm. In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador; and Mervyn Marcano, International Action Center Youth Committee.
See www.c-span.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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