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From: ANSWER at InternationalANSWER.org 
To: nellomargiotta55 at virgilio.it 
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 10:19 PM
Subject: Make noise at the Garden tonight!



Make noise at the Garden tonight!
Let your voice be heard.
We will not be silent! 

ALL OUT ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND
AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN! 


While Bush is accepting the nomination ...
Join us outside of Madison Square Garden to say: 
U.S. Out of Iraq!
Bring the troops home now!
End the Colonial Occupation of Iraq, Haiti, Palestine and everywhere! 

Gather at 7 pm
at 8th Ave. and 31st St.
Madison Square Garden
for a Permitted Rally



Bring drums and noisemakers.
Tonight - Thursday at 7:00 p.m. - people are gathering outside of Madison 
Square Garden at the moment that Bush is making his acceptance speech. This 
rally is a permitted event. It is an important opportunity for us all to show 
that we will not be silenced - not by the police's crude efforts to mute the 
protests this week and not by the lies emanating from the Garden and so 
willingly repeated by the corporate media. 

This demonstration will also demand the immediate release of all those who have 
been arrested in the previous days of protests. During the past week of the 
Republican National Convention, the police in New York City set out to stifle 
the powerful images of dissent that are resonating throughout the City. The 
NYPD and government, working at the behest of the wealthy Mayor and the Bush 
administration, have been sweeping the streets of peaceful protestors, 
targeting people not because they have engaged in unlawful activity - but 
because they are advocating a political point of view. There have been nearly 
2,000 arrests. By the hundreds, arrestees have been dumped in the NYPD's 
holding area, a former industrial garage where people are being denied access 
to food, water and medical treatment, and are being forced to sleep on concrete 
floors contaminated with unknown chemical materials which are causing health 
complications for those held. 

Although under New York law persons must be either released or arraigned within 
24 hours, hundreds of people have been held well beyond that time, and are not 
being allowed to see a judge or a lawyer. The government is holding people in 
preventive detention so that their voices will not be heard to counter the lies 
coming from the Bush Administration and Madison Square Garden. 

The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition condemns this disgusting abuse and repression by 
City authorities and urges everyone to stand in solidarity with those who have 
been arrested. 


* * * * *
The demonstration is initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and is sponsored 
by a growing number of progressive and community organizations including the 
Free Palestine Alliance, Haiti Support Network, Al-Awda: The Palestine Right to 
Return Coalition, The Palestine Right of Return Congress, NYCLAW (New York City 
Labor Against the War), Muslim Students Association - National, Muslim American 
Society Freedom Foundation, Global Women's Strike, African Services Committee, 
James Earl Chaney Foundation, Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace in the 
Philippines, Nicaragua Network, Mexico Solidarity Network and others. It is 
also endorsed by the National Council of Arab Americans (NCA). 



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To get involved in the local activities, contact the A.N.S.W.E.R. office in New 
York City at 212-533-0417 (please take note of this number for all inquiries). 


A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
Act Now to Stop War & End Racism
www.ANSWERcoalition.org
info at internationalanswer.org
National Office in Washington DC: 202-544-3389
New York City: 212-533-0417
Los Angeles: 323-464-1636
San Francisco: 415-821-6545
For media inquiries, call 212-533-0417. 

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