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Mon Feb 4 19:10:52 CST 2002

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From: The Infamous Vinnie Gangbox <theinfamousvinniegangbox at yahoo.com>
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Date: Monday, February 04, 2002 3:12 PM
Subject: [gangbox] Fwd : NEW YORK COPS ARREST 60 STUDENT ACTIVISTS...MANY OTHERS BEATEN AND PEPPER SPRAYED BY THE COPS

Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 16:47:56 -0500 
From: todd eaton <redscares9 at yahoo.com> 
Subject: ACTIVISTS BEATEN UNCONSCIOUS, SPRAYED
ARRESTED IN ACTION AGAINST POLICE RESTRICTIONS ON
PROTEST 

re-forwarded see header 

ROOTS MEDIA COLLECTIVE 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

Contact: 
Kate Cooper 
(917) 374-3807 

ACTIVISTS ARRESTED IN ACTION AGAINST POLICE
RESTRICTIONS ON PROTEST; DOZENS 
INJURED; PRESS CONFERENCE CALLED FOR TOMORROW 

FEBRUARY 3, 2001 - Sixty activists were arrested this
afternoon by New York 
Police while performing a "snake march" along the
sidewalks of the East 
Village, while dozens of others were beaten and
pepper-sprayed by police. 
Police told the People's Law Collective, an anarchist
legal collective, that 
as many as 50 more may still be arrested. 

The snake march, a direct-action protest tactic in
which activists link arms 
and dance along streets and sidewalks in an
unpredictable route as a way to 
reestablish public space for festivity and free
expression, began at St Marks 
Place and Second Avenue. Marchers had reached Second
Avenue between 12th and 
13th Streets at about 1:30pm when fully-geared riot
police, with two 
corrections vans, ambushed them. 

The 60 arrests were accompanied by dozens of injuries,
as police knocked to 
the ground a group of activists who were crossing the
street legally but were 
not engaged in the march. At least one person was
knocked unconscious, picked 
up and placed in a corrections van. 

One report said that Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Chief
Raymond Kelly were on 
the scene observing the police actions. 

The march was called by the Anti-Capitalist
Convergence, a New York-based 
collective of anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist
activists that had also 
participated in yesterday's anti-World Economic Forum
march from 59th Street 
and Fifth Avenue to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Members
of the ACC were 
subjected to an unprovoked attack from police at that
march; police charged 
the crowd of activists, beat and pepper-sprayed many,
and hauled 20 out for 
random arrests. The 20 are being arraigned today at
100 Centre Street, after 
having spent 12 hours yesterday in a police van
without water or 
communication. 

"The police overreacted," Joe Keady, a member of
Anti-Capitalist Convergence, 
said of today's incident. "There was such a buildup to
the World Economic 
Forum protests yesterday, and they spent that whole
day with nothing really 
to do. They were bored, and I guess they decided to
make some action for 
themselves." 

Keady suspects the marchers were "profiled" by police,
who may have been 
tipped off that the march was going to take place.
However, "there's no 
excuse for a vicious attack like this," Keady says. 

Roots Media Collective is calling a press conference
on the incident for 
tomorrow afternoon at the Walker Space, 56 Walker
Street in Manhattan, to 
present more information on this incident and what
legal action may be taken. 
Roots Media Collective is a group of independent
journalists and media 
activists that was formed in 2000 and is based in New
York City. 

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