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DNC Update: Is this what democracy looks like?"

Video stills from Save Our Civil Liberties' "Is this what democracy looks like?" protest of the so-called "free speech zone."
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There were three roles at the SOCL street-theater protest: DNC guards; prisoners; and gagged-press officers. Three press officers handed out flyers to the media that read as follows:

"WELCOME TO CAMP DNC, MADE IN USA

As an EMBEDDED REPORTER you are invited to observe, film, and photograph Camp DNC

RESPECT THE RULES of this camp; follow the direction of the press officer

DO NOT DISTURB the Prisoners"

in addition, the flyer included a collective statement:

"We are gathered here today in solemn and silent protest at the incarceration of pro-democracy demonstrators in the barbwire cage known as the DNC “Free Speech Zone.”

The extremist crackdown by the US government on civil and political freedoms in the wake of 911 and the war on terror ushers in the age of a "Guantanamo Bay/Camp X-Ray" approach to criminalizing the voices of the people. It is the latest in a series of harsh actions taken to constrain the world of ideas and alternatives by fences, walls and wire.

What does it mean when Boston, a city built on the history of revolutionary dissent, builds a barbaric confine for people who want to express their democratic rights?

Why do the Democrats stand silent while this assault on democracy occurs in the shadow of the Fleet Center itself?

From Abu-Ghraib to Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay to the streets of Boston: IS THIS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE?"

Download the complete flyer here:

www.saveourcivilliberties.org/media/2004/07/464.pdf
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