DNC summary, day by day : Indybay

"People had the opportunity long ago to speak to their delegates," said a press aide for the convention committee. "There are plenty of other ways to make your voice heard other than protesting."
DNC HAPPENINGS [streaming audio]:
Boston Social Forum [video]
Convergence Center/Alternative Village
Bl(A)ck Tea Society text message updates
"Eyes Wide Open" exhibit
DNC2RNC March

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7/25

7/25: "As the International ANSWER march reached the Fleet Center (site of the Democratic National Convention), the Secret Service detained for questioning a demonstrator apparently of South Asian (Indian or Pakistani) descent for "looking around"--a clear act of racial profiling. He has since been released." [1]
7/25: "Police threaten Legal Observers with arrest for not providing identification at "People's Party" in JP. Police converge on rally in mass."
7/25: "...The seeds of peace bus was visited for a third time. Police entered the bus ignoring requests by the resident cook for a search warrant. The bus is parked on a private lot with permission from the lots owner. Earlier in the week several agencies searched the bus, stealing four propane tanks that still have not been returned."
7/25: "Pro-life" groups try to start fights

7/26: Demostration against protest pens. "Morning Action at "Free Speech Zone", performance artists demonstrate repression of free speech by dressing as prisoners, with a protester dressed as a "Free Speech Pen Officer" binding, gagging and harrassing actvists in kneeling rows." [Photos] [Photos 2]
7/26: Bl(A)ck Tea Society march [video]
7/26: Gay rights demonstration [second link - from BTS]
7/26: Anti-police state actions (summary)
7/26: Free Palestine demonstration

7/27: Billionaires For Bush: "Million Billionaire March"
7/27: Really, Really Democratic Bazaar begins (photos): "Live music on two stages, free haircuts, free massages, free bikes, and free hugs were just several of the ways people expressed their commitment to the creation of community and the living protest to consumptive living." Apparently a lot of police around, which is utter nonsense. They had no business anywhere near the bazaar.
7/27: Bazaar after-party cancelled (I don't know why yet)
7/27: Code-Pink activist infiltrates DNC with anti-war banner
7/27: "September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrow’s march with a monument to civilians killed in war."

7/28: "'What Have We Become: From Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib' Rally starts--about 500 people"
7/28: "Activist arrested while walking down the street outside the Convergence Center."
7/28: 400-500 people environmental march

7/29: Critical Mass ride. [photos]
7/29: "Copley Square claimed with giant circle-A banner."
7/29: Save Civil Liberties hooded march
7/29: Various other marches ("No Blood For Oil" march, etc.), street theater
7/29: "Medics with water not being allowed into free speech zone"
7/29: "Empty watter bottle alleged to be molotov cocktail, used as excuse for arrest"
7/29: "The secret service is preventing the IMC from videotaping"
7/29: "Protesters...cut parts of fence of the "Free Speech Zone" with bolt cutters."
7/29: "Confirmed: One female hospitalized by police responding to protesters at the Fleet Center due to a baton blow to the head" + 3 other arrests [photos]
7/29: "Party Crashers disrupted the floor of the DNC with discussion of anarchism, signs such as "Why do we need a president?" "Kerry is Bush"; no arrests."
7/29: Two-faced effigy of Bush/Kerry burned in a rather celebratory demonstration.
7/29: Queer "Kiss-in"
7/29: Immigration rights demonstration

(Summary of 7/29)
--->7/30 - DNC2RNC March leaves Boston Common, headed to New York! --- collected photos: 7/26: [1] [2] various articles: from the Village Voice DemocracyNow!: ACLU sues over "free speech zones"

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