Monday, October 01, 2007

Illegally arrested at Repub Nat'l Conv....

From truthout.org :

Nick Turse | Fortress Big Apple, 2007

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100107H.shtml

Nick Turse writes for TomDispatch.com: "I am one of the demonstrators who was illegally arrested by the New York City Police Department during the protests against the 2004 Republican National Convention. My crime had been -- in an effort to call attention to the human toll of America's wars -- to ride the subway, dressed in black with the pallor of death about me (thanks to cornstarch and cold cream), and an expression to match, sporting a placard around my neck that read: WAR DEAD."

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