{"article":{"id":116777,"heading":"This is What Democracy Looks Like","author":"builder123","created":"2004-09-12 20:59:43","modified":"2013-11-11 00:30:46","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:30:46","article":"

Above -- Jesse Jackson and 499,999 +\/- others head for Madison Square Gardens

The convergence’s centerpiece was Sunday’s march where half a million people took seven hours passing Madison Square Garden, site of the RNC. Acting as book ends to Sunday’s historic action satellite events scattered throughout Manhattan created another kind of convention as large as the Big Apple itself representing labor, pro choice, and the peace movement. In the end what will be remembered is the huge display of people power and a government more concerned with media appearance than civil rights.

Photos from the Disruption of Bush's Speech - including protest banner<\/a> A MUST SEE!!





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March for Women’s Lives<\/a>

March for Women’s Lives Part 2<\/a>

March for Women’s Lives Part 3<\/a>

Detainee Describes Treatment<\/a>

ACLU Speaks<\/a>

Starbucks Action<\/a>

<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"Republican National Convention \u2013 New York City\r\nConvergence on Manhattan by those opposed to Bush was widespread, peaceful and unfortunately harassed by a politicized NYPD. \r\n","numcomment":11,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2004\/09\/image5901.jpgefeawa.jpg","filesize":"171.0 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2004\/09\/116777.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2004\/09\/image5901.jpgefeawa.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2004\/09\/image5901.jpgefeawa.jpgthumb.jpg","medium":"\/uploads\/2004\/09\/image5901.jpgefeawa.jpgmid.jpg"}},"attachments":[{"id":116778,"heading":"Independent Media - Eyes and Ear of a Movement","article":"IMC reports provided up to the minute news and information.\r\nCheck out http:\/\/nyc.indymedia.org\/ for in depth reporting.\r\n","author":"builder123","parent_id":116777,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-09-12 20:59:43","modified":"2005-08-15 03:02:27","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/09\/image5701.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/09\/image5701.jpg"}},{"id":116779,"heading":"March for Women\u2019s Lives","article":"Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan five to eight thousand march for Reproductive Choice. \r\n","author":"builder123","parent_id":116777,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-09-12 20:59:43","modified":"2013-11-11 00:30:46","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/09\/image1101.jpgrtari9.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/09\/image1101.jpgrtari9.jpg"}},{"id":116780,"heading":"March for Women\u2019s Lives","article":"Four more years of Bush would lead to the roll back of Roe v. Wade.\r\nRead the following from Women\u2019s e-News - http:\/\/www.womensenews.org\/article.cfm\/dyn\/aid\/1346\r\n","author":"builder123","parent_id":116777,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-09-12 20:59:44","modified":"2013-11-11 00:30:46","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/09\/image3201.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/09\/image3201.jpg"}},{"id":116781,"heading":"Kid\u2019s for Kerry","article":"Still sounds scary\r\n","author":"builder123","parent_id":116777,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-09-12 20:59:44","modified":"2013-11-11 00:30:46","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/09\/image2101.jpgwpsw6l.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/09\/image2101.jpgwpsw6l.jpg"}},{"id":116782,"heading":"Staten Island Ferry Ride to Liberate NY From Bush Loyalists","article":"Billionaires for Brush roped in by the Green Dragon Patriots.\r\n","author":"builder123","parent_id":116777,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-09-12 20:59:44","modified":"2005-08-15 03:02:27","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/09\/image2301.jpgbtv9vr.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/09\/image2301.jpgbtv9vr.jpg"}},{"id":116783,"heading":"What are they Thinking?","article":" As usual the state was protecting the corp. elite while tolerating the people - soon after the photo was taken NYPD decided to arrest the rally leaders. \r\n","author":"builder123","parent_id":116777,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-09-12 20:59:44","modified":"2005-08-15 03:02:27","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/09\/image6901.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/09\/image6901.jpg"}},{"id":116784,"heading":"Workers United, Well Not Today","article":"Starbucks workers press for the right to join a Union. NYPD is working without a contract.\r\n","author":"builder123","parent_id":116777,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-09-12 20:59:44","modified":"2005-08-15 03:02:27","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/09\/image2801.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/09\/image2801.jpg"}},{"id":116785,"heading":"NYPD Maintains Massive Presence","article":"With something like 36,000 cops dedicated to \u201c RNC Security\u201d the NYC tactics for containment dished up less red meat police attacks than those used in Miami while still managing to trample the right of free assembly. \r\n","author":"builder123","parent_id":116777,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-09-12 20:59:44","modified":"2013-11-11 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The Secret Service will question him to see if he would do anything with the president.\r\n\r\nI would simply like the dead children under his dead boot to rise up against him and his coup d'etat regime Billionaire Republican\/Democrat.\r\n\r\nThe USA is over. All rights are gone. It is time for a new plan, or maybe a decent bomb shelter with air and water purification systems.\r\n\r\nOld guy in the pic, "It is going to get a whole lot worse."","author":"N Wor B Nits U A Truk","parent_id":116777,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-09-14 01:03:13","modified":"2004-09-14 01:03:13","fileurl":""},{"id":116864,"heading":"NYC the Nightmare of the Lost American Dream","article":"All of those people are arrested and a handful of us see their pictures. So what? Now what? \r\n\r\nIt will take much more than putting yourself in harms way in front of a bunch of mercenaries for our enemies in the regime Republican\/Democrat.\r\n\r\nIt is too bad many can not vote and that votes are not counted like tax returns via our computer terminals.\r\n\r\nAmerica has always been a lie. The question becomes, "Who or what is leading our nation, our world to our deaths?"\r\n\r\nBy the old clock on the wall, I can see it is time for a whole new strategy using some of the older strategems.\r\n\r\n","author":"N Wor B Nits U A Truk","parent_id":116777,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-09-14 01:10:03","modified":"2004-09-14 01:10:03","fileurl":""}]}