[Seattle-editorial] FP: FTAA Protests -- 1st Draft

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gentry Lange [mailto:g at art13.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 02:10 AM
> To: 'Editorial'
> Subject: [Seattle-editorial] FP: FTAA Protests -- 1st Draft
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> Clean readable version here:
> http://www.art13.com/gentry/rants/ftaa.htm
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> This is a draft, please rewrite, edit, or comment as you see fit...
> Gentry
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> __________________________________________-
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> 
> Title: Police Repression in These United States
> Sub: FTAA Protests and Arrests
> 
> <p>Fear and intimidation, it's the name of the game in the United States.
> There's
>   scant little corporate news of the political repression of protest, but
> then
>   the Corporate News isn't really news anymore is it?</p>
> <p>200 protestors were arrested this weekend in Miami. The Alternative
> Media,
>   <a
> href="http://www.counterpunch.org/scahill11242003.html">Counterpunch</a>,
>   the <a href="http://www.ftaaimc.org/en/index.shtml">FTAA Indymedia
> Site</a>,
>   and a few local periodicals carried the AP story, <a
> href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/miami/sfl-arrested1124,0,720799
> 6.story?coll=sfla-news-miami">here</a>,
>   <a href="http://www.nbc6.net/news/2661452/detail.html">here</a>, and <a
> href="http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/7340289.htm">here</a>.</p>
> <p>Most notably The United Steelworkers of America, put out a press release
> that
>   called for Investigations, &quot;"Last week, the fundamental rights of
> thousands
>   of Americans 
 were blatantly violated, sometimes violently, by the Miami
> police,
>   who systematically repressed our Constitutional right to free assembly
> with
>   massive force, riot gear and armaments," said Leo W. Gerard, USWA
> international
>   president, in a letter to Congressional leaders.&quot; The story is <a
> href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/11/24/7947701">here
> </a>,
>   on Infoshop.org. Which has <a
> href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/11/24/4862721">anot
> her
>   thread going here</a>, including personal accounts.</p>
> 
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