Thousands participated in organized civil disobedience and spontaneous protests in still another day of demonstrations surrounding the Republican National Convention in New York City. Today's actions, loosely coordinated and spread throughout Manhattan, were met by a massive and intolerant police force. Police arrested hundreds of nonviolent protesters in what one civil rights lawyer dubbed a clear policy of "pre-emption." A decentralized conglomeration of groups, calling itself A31, planned many of today's protests and said they intended to engage in nonviolent "direct action" and other forms of peaceful protest to call attention to the casualties of war and war profiteering, protest the corporate media's role in disinformation, and generally interfere with the visits of RNC delegates. [more
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