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Amy Goodman: Why We Were Falsely Arrested

By Amy Goodman | AlterNet.org

I repeated we were accredited journalists, whereupon a Secret Service agent came over and ripped my convention credential from my neck.

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SOURCE: After Downing Street

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After Downing Street: "Preemptive Strikes Against Protest at RNC"

SOURCE: AfterDowningStreet.org

The raids targeted members of "Food Not Bombs," an anti-war, anti-authoritarian protest group that provides free vegetarian meals every week in hundreds of cities all over the world. They served meals to rescue workers at the World Trade Center after 9/11 and to nearly 20 communities in the Gulf region following Hurricane Katrina.

Also targeted were members of I-Witness Video, a media watchdog group that monitors the police to protect civil liberties. The group worked with the National Lawyers Guild to gain the dismissal of charges or acquittals of about 400 of the 1,800 who were arrested during the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York. Preemptive policing was used at that time as well. Police infiltrated protest groups in advance of the convention.