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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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 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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