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<< Subj: Below the Surface in Philadelphia
Date: 8/4/00 12:24:44 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: [log in to unmask] (Institute for Public Accuracy)
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Institute for Public Accuracy
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Interviews Available Friday, August 4, 2000
BELOW THE SURFACE IN PHILADELPHIA
RON McGUIRE, [log in to unmask], http://www.phillyimc.org
"What we're seeing in Philadelphia is a First Amendment crisis that could
become a First Amendment catastrophe," said McGuire, an attorney working
with the R2K legal collective. "The authorities in Philadelphia have set
bail for demonstrators facing misdemeanor charges as high as $30,000. It’s
unprecedented. We have $1 million bail set for demonstrators facing
felonies. The police commissioner has called on the federal government to
use the anti-racketeering and conspiracy laws to prosecute demonstrators."
LOUIS DUBOSE, [log in to unmask], http://www.texasobserver.org
Editor of the Texas Observer and co-author (with Molly Ivins) of "Shrub:
The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush," Dubose said this
morning: "Bush is speaking in code to the religious right… This is the
politics of money and of message and of personalityand Bush is ideally
suited for all three."
BARBARA RENAUD GONZALEZ, [log in to unmask]
Columnist for the San Antonio Express-News, Gonzalez said: "If we didn't
know him, we'd be pleased with the speech -- it sounded positive and
loving. The problem I have with Gov. Bush is that it takes government to
create social change, it's not enough to have the private sector and the
religious community to take care of the most disadvantaged among us. Gov.
Bush speaks without any real knowledge of the debilitating experience of
poverty, injustice, prison, a poor education."
KEVIN GRAY, [log in to unmask]
Author of the forthcoming "Pearls Before Swine," a book on the national
significance of the Confederate flag struggle, Gray said: "Both Bush and
McCain hitched their wagon to the most racist elements here in South
Carolina. Both major political parties use blacks as props. Cheney voted
against releasing Mandela, he says that was because the ANC was a
'terrorist' group, but people of color are never allowed to say 'give me
liberty or give me death.'"
JEFF GATES, [log in to unmask], http://www.sharedcapitalism.org
Author of "Democracy at Risk: Rescuing Main Street from Wall Street -- A
Populist Vision for the 21st Century," Gates was former counsel to the
Senate Finance Committee from 1980 to 1987. He said today: "A real
conservative would want to protect what we have for posterity. Instead
today’s 'conservatives' undermine posterity with a policy mix that results
in the top 1 percent of households now exceeding the combined wealth of the
bottom 95 percent. The Democrats are barely better; the gap between the
have-nots and the have-everythings has continued to widen at an
accelerating pace during the Clinton-Gore administration."
For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020 >>
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