Activism

Pre-Emptive "Traitor" Baiters

by Diane Farsetta — August 15, 2004 - 10:00pm

"Federal agents and city police are keeping tabs on people they say might try to cause trouble at the Republican National Convention, questioning activists, making unannounced visits and monitoring Web sites and meetings. ... The intelligence unit of the New York Police Department ...

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Associated Press, August 16, 2004

Asking for Trouble

by Diane Farsetta — July 25, 2004 - 10:00pm

"Fear has increased in every newsroom in America," said CBS's Dan Rather during a discussion of "The Press and the Election" at Harvard University. That's fear of "a torrent of e-mails and phone calls" complaining about media coverage of controversial issues. Rather said journalists might think, "when you run this story, you're asking for trouble. ...

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The Boston Globe, July 26, 2004

Protesters Entitled to Wear T-shirts

by Sheldon Rampton — July 14, 2004 - 10:00pm

Trespassing charges have been dropped against Nicole and Jeff Rank, who wore anti-Bush T-shirts to the president's July 4 rally in Charleston, West Virginia. "Law enforcement officers told the couple to take the shirts off, cover them or get out," reports Jennifer Bundy. "When they refused and sat down, they were arrested." According to Charleston Mayor Danny Jones, the couple was arrested for their own safety.

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Associated Press, July 15, 2004

Industry Warned of Activist Threat

by Laura Miller — June 20, 2004 - 10:00pm

"One of the most compelling speakers at the recent Biotechnology Industry Organization conference ... wasn't a researcher or a venture capitalist, but a representative of a special agency with the FBI," Paul Holmes writes for PR Week.

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PR Week, June 21, 2004

Clamping Down, Down Under

by Diane Farsetta — June 15, 2004 - 10:00pm

The Australian government is using a report by the right-wing think tank Institute for Public Affairs to determine "the most effective ways to ensure that the transparency of the growing engagement between Government and Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) is maintained." The report, titled "Managing Relations with Non-Government Organisations," maintains that NGOs enjoy "privileged positions whi

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Press release, Australian Family and Community Services, June 16, 2004

Freedom Fries, Hold the Freedom

by Diane Farsetta — June 2, 2004 - 10:00pm

The U.S. State Department is warning Americans in Italy that "not all demonstrations" planned during George Bush's visit this weekend "are expected to be peaceful." Italian peace groups are organizing several demonstrations; one Rome-based activist explained: "We are going to disrupt this visit ...

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BBC, June 3, 2004

Eco-Terrorism Is as Eco-Terrorism Does

by Diane Farsetta — May 28, 2004 - 10:00pm

"The War on Terrorism has come home," warns Will Potter. "FBI agents rounded up seven American political activists ... and the U.S.

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Counterpunch, May 29, 2004

Celebrate (or Protest) Somewhere Else

by Diane Farsetta — May 20, 2004 - 10:00pm

The Boston Globe reports that the Democratic National Convention Host Committee's message has changed over the past month, from "Celebrate Boston" to "Let's Work Around It." "The desire to make the convention a community celebration is rubbing up against security precautions ordered for the first political convention since the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks," the Globe writes. Protest restrictions at both the Boston Democratic and New York Republican conventions are raising concerns.

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The Boston Globe, May 21, 2004

The Decriminalization of Dissent

by Diane Farsetta — May 19, 2004 - 10:00pm

In a rare "directed verdict" issued less than three days into the trial, the environmental group Greenpeace was found not guilty of the 19th century crime of "sailor mongering." A Miami federal judge found that activists who boarded a ship six miles from the Port of Miami-Dade did not break the 1872 law, which requires the ship be "about to arrive." The ship was carrying some 70 tons of mahogany from the Brazilian rain forest.

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Miami Herald, May 20, 2004

The Smell of Money

by Diane Farsetta — March 25, 2004 - 11:41am

"From Alabama to Illinois, grass-roots groups have turned to the courts in an attempt to shut down industrial-style concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, or to keep them from being built," reports Andrew Martin.

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Chicago Tribune, March 24,2004
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