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"Free Speech" cage.(Democratic National Convention )(Brief Article)
Inside Boston's Fleet Center, Democrat Party delegates approved the 2004 party platform "in a hasty procedure and a largely empty Democratic National Convention hall," reported a July 27 AP dispatch. "Is there any discussion?" asked the convention chair, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. "He didn't wait for an answer before calling a voice vote that brought a chorus of approval and only a few scattered 'nays'"--and banging his gavel to end the charade.
Outside the convention, activists and protesters--ranging from hard-left radicals to more respectable people expressing principled disagreement--were confined to a "Free Speech Zone" in the form of a large metal cage, topped with concertina wire. Those seeking to protest quite literally had to ...
- Boston Rallies to Go beyond 'Zone' during Democratic National Convention.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 18, 2004 700+ words
...far beyond the "free-speech zone" next to the...month's Democratic National Convention, planning to gather...events outside the free-speech zone. "If somebody...city set aside the free-speech zone, a 29,000...
- Outspoken: Chicago's Radical History Examined in Free Speech Exhibition;...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 29, 2004 700+ words
...vibrant center for free speech and activism. Co...Outspoken: Chicago's Free Speech Tradition will feature...and the Democratic National Convention -- Gay marriage protest...Outspoken: Chicago's Free Speech Tradition is free and...
- Pols find profit in `free speech'
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Charles Nicodemus September 11, 1988 700+ words
...sale of unauthorized videotapes of his "Dream Again" speech at the Democratic National Convention may give Jackson sweet dreams of profit. But for some "free speech" experts, the outcome of the controversial case is more like a First Amendment...
- Protesters Threaten to Sue Boston for Blocking 'Free-Speech Zone'.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 17, 2004 700+ words
...weeks before the Democratic National Convention, civil rights groups are...city of Boston because a "free-speech zone" near the FleetCenter...location of the so-called free speech zone that will be reserved...convention protests. The free speech zone has been moved to ...
- Protesters to appeal `free speech zone' at convention.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) July 24, 2004 700+ words
...conditions of the designated site for protests at the Democratic National Convention will make another effort Monday to persuade a court to move their cramped "free speech zone" to another location. Lawyers for the Massachusetts ACLU and...
- Antiabortion Groups Fight Protester Rules at Democratic National Convention.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 20, 2004 700+ words
...protesters at the Democratic National Convention, saying that the city...First Amendment right to free speech. In a lawsuit filed yesterday...claims. "They're crushing free speech," the Rev. Patrick J...are also concerned that a "free-speech zone" city officials will...
- Democratic National Convention's protest zone draws ire.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News July 21, 2004 700+ words
...off from Democratic National Convention delegates. Much...The creation of "free speech zones," often far...outside the Republican National Convention without ensuring...to boycott the "free speech zone." The group...
- REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION; Arrests top 500 as trouble looms; Anarchists...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Wedge, Dave August 31, 2004 700+ words
...YORK - With more than 500 arrests already at the Republican National Convention, a handful of demonstrators were hauled in yesterday while...Bloomberg's denial of protest permits and the fenced-in "free speech zones" set up by the city. Yesterday, an estimated 50...
