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  • Pig snouts and tree-climbing: Police manage long-planned day of protests

    08/31/2004 5:54:30 PM PDT · by MikalM · 19 replies · 791+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 8/31/04 | Sara Kugler
    Activists donned pig snouts, climbed trees and targeted Fox News Channel in protests across Manhattan on Tuesday as police arrested 260 people during a day of civil disobedience aimed at the Republican convention. Officers encircled scores of demonstrators with orange netting during a protest near the former site of the World Trade Center. Detained protesters were loaded onto an off-duty city bus, and police put the count at about 200. The demonstrators insisted they were following police orders. The protest's 500 demonstrators, a group called the War Resisters League, said they were staging a "death march" from Ground Zero to...
  • Nyack (NY) High students clash over anti-war literature

    06/07/2002 12:30:34 PM PDT · by LurkedLongEnough · 37 replies · 345+ views
    THE JOURNAL NEWS (Westchester County, NY) ^ | June 6, 2002 | RANDI WEINER
    <p>One Nyack High School student was suspended for insubordination and another sent to an in-school disciplinary program after nearly 25 students clashed over pacifist literature being handed out in the high school in response to a visit by military recruiters.</p>