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By Joellen Perry
Thursday, August 3
It was all quiet on the streets of Philadelphia Wednesday, a welcome relief after clashes a day earlier in which a reported 350 protesters were arrested and downtown traffic was jammed. A handful of peaceful demonstrations took place around the convention city, including a rally of several hundred protesters proclaiming solidarity for their colleagues still in jail after Tuesday's arrests. But only one road was blocked. (Read on.)
Wednesday, August 2
Police are hoping to keep the peace for the rest of the week after clashing with protesters yesterday in downtown Philadelphia during the GOP convention. After three days of relatively quiet demonstrations, including marches that drew thousands on both Sunday and Monday,
thousands of protesters yesterday linked arms to form human chains and sat in the middle of major downtown arteries to block traffic. (Read on.)
Tuesday, August 1
For the second day in a row, GOP convention protesters and Philadelphia police maintained an uneasy truce, averting the mass arrests and violence that characterized the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle last March. What might have happened Monday–when supporters of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union marched down one of Philadelphia's main arteries–was anyone's guess. (Read on.)
Monday, July 31
One thing was clear among the some 10,000 protesters who gathered on Philadelphia's JFK Boulevard Sunday for a rally dubbed Unity 2000: that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are the problem. But it wasn't clear if they consider either Al Gore or Ralph Nader the solution. (Read on.)
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WHISPER OF THE DAY
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Guam time.
The Republicans hate it when the Democrats say they're out of
touch, but consider: When the Republican National Committee sent
out its events calendar via computer, it had all the times wrong.
According to one insider, "I checked with the chairman's office, and
it appears that this is because the time on our computers is set to
Guam time."
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