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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=lduncan@igc.org href="mailto:lduncan@igc.org">Larry Duncan</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=lduncan@igc.org href="mailto:lduncan@igc.org">Larry
Duncan</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 09, 2012 4:23 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Chicago settles with war protesters for $6M</DIV></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 24px"><FONT style="FONT: 36px Arial; COLOR: #0000df"
color=#0000df size=7 face=Arial><B>Chicago settles with war protesters for
$6M</B></FONT></P>
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color=#0000df size=5 face=Arial>Updated at 11:51 AM today</FONT></DIV><BR><IMG
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 18px"><FONT style="FONT: 18px Arial; COLOR: #0000df"
color=#0000df size=5 face=Arial>February 9, 2012 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Attorneys
representing the City of Chicago told a federal judge Thursday they have reached
a settlement with nearly 700 people detained by police during a raucous 2003
anti-war protest.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 18px"><FONT style="FONT: 18px Arial; COLOR: #0000df"
color=#0000df size=5 face=Arial>The city has agreed to pay members of the
class-action lawsuit a total of $6.2 million.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 18px"><FONT style="FONT: 18px Arial; COLOR: #0000df"
color=#0000df size=5 face=Arial>Attorneys representing the City of Chicago told
a federal judge Thursday they have reached a settlement with nearly 700 people
detained by police during a raucous 2003 anti-war protest. The city has agreed
to pay members of the class action lawsuit a total of $6.2 million.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 18px"><FONT style="FONT: 18px Arial; COLOR: #0000df"
color=#0000df size=5 face=Arial>"I hope it sends a message that they need to
treat us like citizens and not combatants," said Cheryl Angelaccio, one of the
protestors arrested near Chicago and Michigan avenues a day after the start of
the Iraq war in March of 2003.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 18px"><FONT style="FONT: 18px Arial; COLOR: #0000df"
color=#0000df size=5 face=Arial>The settlement has drawn extra attention ahead
of the G8 and NATO meetings scheduled for Chicago in May. The event is expected
to draw world leaders as well as demonstrators.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 18px"><FONT style="FONT: 18px Arial; COLOR: #0000df"
color=#0000df size=5 face=Arial>Attorneys for the protesters say their lawsuit
sends a message that police must allow demonstrators to exercise their
constitutional rights and notify the crowd before mass arrests begin.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 18px"><FONT style="FONT: 18px Arial; COLOR: #0000df"
color=#0000df size=5 face=Arial>Lawyers representing Chicago declined to
immediately comment.</FONT></P>
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