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DESCRIPTION:WHAT: Press Conference and Rally against suppression of protest at 
 Democratic Natl Convention                                                  
                                                             WHEN: 12:00 pm 
 Thursday, August 14                                                         
                                    WHERE: Obama Headquarters in Berkeley 
 (3225 Adeline Street)\n[Berkeley, CA] – While U.S. politicians condemn 
 China for suppressing political dissent, the Democratic Party is supporting 
 political suppression at its upcoming August 25-28 National Convention in 
 Denver.  \n\nOn Thursday, August 14 at noon, World Can’t Wait-Drive Out 
 the Bush Regime and others will hold a dramatic press conference at Barack 
 Obama’s Berkeley Headquarters condemning this suppression of dissent.  
 Spokespeople for World Can’t Wait will be available.\n\nLast week a U.S. 
 District Court ruled that protesters’ free speech rights must give way to 
 “national security,” allowing the government to force march permits to 
 end 3 hours before the convention begins.  Protesters will be kept away 
 from the convention center and allowed only into chain link fenced cages 
 700 feet from the center's door. These "freedom cages" are reminiscent of 
 Guanantamo and will be ringed by police and concrete barriers.  Huge media 
 tents are being erected between the cages and the convention.\n\nProtesters 
 note that Obama’s refusal to condemn this assault on dissent is 
 consistent with his vote to support the recent Foreign Intelligence 
 Surveillance Act (FISA) bill legalizing and extending many of the Bush 
 administration’s secret and illegal eavesdropping activities.\n\n“World 
 Can't Wait will be joining thousands of people in the Denver protests who 
 want to send a different message to the world,” states World Can’t Wait 
 National Coordinator Debra Sweet. “Bring the whole Bush program of lying 
 to start illegitimate wars, and threatening other countries, spying on 
 citizens, justifying torture -- to a HALT!”\n\nBuses will be leaving from 
 Berkeley for Denver on August 20 and 22.  Information: 415-864-5153\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/12/18525843.php
SUMMARY:PROTEST of POLITICAL SUPPRESSION AT THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION
LOCATION:Obama Headquarters in Berkeley (3225 Adeline Street)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/12/18525843.php
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