Protesters Lose Bid to Camp in NY During Convention

[PaDUer]

Looks like all hell's going to be breaking out, especially since they're denying the right to a peaceful protest..

Protesters Lose Bid to Camp in NY During Convention

By Ellen Wulfhorst

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former members of the Yippies, a counterculture group that clashed with police in riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, lost a bid on Wednesday to set up a camp for protesters during this summer's Republican National Convention in New York, officials said.

Demonstrators predict huge numbers of protesters will descend on New York for the convention. Law enforcement officials are planning unprecedented security.

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In 1968, members of the Yippies, who were running a pig named Pigasus as their candidate for president, and other activists clashed with police in violent demonstrations during the Democratic convention in Chicago.

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This year, during the Republican convention in August in New York, the Yippies were proposing peaceful campsites called the "John Lennon-Abbie Hoffman Memorial Camporee," in honor of the slain Beatle and the late Yippie co-founder, Penley said.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040325/pl_nm/campaign_yippies_dc&cid=615&ncid=2043

[G_j]

1. that is sad

I love the name of the camp. damn!!

[kskiska]

2. I see where the Secret Service

will be handling the security. Doesn't sound good.

[PaDUer]

10. What about that special company...

they hired to "take care" of the protestors..This is going to get bad, real bad..

[Zinfandel]

3. We can't give up. I'm going to NYC to protest...and I live in N CA

It's going to get very, very vocal, not allowing protestors camps to sleep, this is just the beginning...they can't take away our right to assemble & protest...no fucking way...they better make concessions for peaceful protest!

There will be camps...how in the fuck are they going to stop hundreds of thousand of protestors from camping and sleeping?

[The Lone Liberal]

4. And so it starts.

A replay of the Chicago, ending with Nixon's election

[madrchsod]

5. good god the yippes

aren`t those guys and gals drawing social security yet? i`m sure the years have slowed them down-it will be hard for them to run from the cops....

[Zinfandel]

7. Some yippees are 48 or 49 now, being only seventeen or eighteen in 1971

still more than able to kick ass and raise shit!

[madrchsod]

9. just joking

some of the leaders of the yippes are my age and older ,that`s why i think it`s funny..take it from me anyone my age and older aren`t going to run very fast. but we have "wisdom"- LOL

[gristy]

6. Surely there is some cool dude who owns a nearby farm we could borrow?

[Zinfandel]

8. I've never been to NYC ...I'll need all the help I can get...

I'm by no means poor, but I still will need some thoughts on getting around.