Empty terrorist alert distracts from NYC March for Women's Lives protest

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From the LA Times:

NYC Faces Protests, Terror Fears
By James Gerstenzang and David Zucchino, Times Staff Writers

NEW YORK — Two men — a U.S. citizen and a Pakistani national — were arrested in an alleged plot to bomb a subway station just blocks from Madison Square Garden, where Republicans open their national convention Monday, New York's police commissioner, Ray Kelly, said today.
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Thousands of abortion rights activists marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to promote reproductive rights and family planning. The platform that the delegates to the Republican National Convention are expected to approve commits the Republican Party to a strong anti-abortion position.

Carrying signs and chanting slogans, the activists trudged across the bridge 10-abreast for 2½ hours in what organizers called the largest abortion rights rally ever held in New York City. They said 25,000 people, most of them women, took part.

And the arrests of the two men in the subway case appeared to have brought to light an alleged plot that was more mystery than threat: Kelly said the men had no apparent connection to an international terrorist organization, and that while "it was clear that they had the intention to cause damage, to kill people," he said, "they did not immediately have the means to do it."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-082804newyork_lat,1,3083969.story?coll=la-home-headlines

From Arkansas Indymedia:

NYC Preparing for major repression of 1st amendment
by Joe Diffie
28 Aug 2004
Modified: 05:33:35 PM

Folks, New York City is rising and George Bush has built a fortress in the middle of the city and staffed it with tens of thousands of cops to make sure their party doesn't get crashed. As I sit here I can here non-stop sirens and numerous choppers from various federal agencies flying overhead. There are multiple actions every day and random diverse unpermitted marches going on for everything from womens rights in Brooklyn and economic justice on the lower east side to peace demonstrations in no free speech zones and good old fashioned street parties just cuz there are so many of us and we can. This is big...and the convention hasn't even started yet. Sunday and Monday are going to be the big days.

There was a 10,000 person march for women's lives this morning. This march was permitted and crossed over the Brooklyn Bridge where a rally was held. The mood was upbeat and there was light police precense. There were about 10 counter protestors.

http://arkansas.indymedia.org/feature/display/4424/index.php

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