Mass Arrests at Columbus Day Parade Protest
Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 06:49PM
The Conquest Continues. Fake Ass Holiday:
230 Charged With Loitering, Disobedience - Event organized by American Indian Movement
Several hundred people, Indian and non-Indian alike, were arrested over
the weekend in Denver during a protest against Columbus Day. The arrest
total represents about two-thirds of the people who showed up to rally
against the event, a parade that wound through the streets of the
city's downtown. "Our arrests are designed to expose a corrupt
educational, legal and political system that refuses to describe the
destruction of millions of indigenous people at the hands of Columbus
for what it is: genocide. In a legal and political system that
rationalizes and justifies the murder, theft, and ongoing betrayal of
our peoples and nations, we, as the victims of such a system are under
an obligation to expose such moral and legal bankruptcy, and we
actively refuse to cooperate with legalized murder and theft," read a
statement from the Colorado American Indian Movement. AIM says they
continue to target Colorado over Columbus Day with special vigor
because in 1907, Colorado became the first U.S. state to make Oct. 12 a
holiday. Police said there were 500-600 protesters,
while 575 police officers and 60 members of the Denver Sheriff's
Department worked along the parade route. [more 
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