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Edited on Thu Nov-03-11 08:39 AM by Chan790
tell them to contact their local newspapers, any of them...not merely to report on this violation, but also since they're clearly present and will probably remain-so to ask for a press-pass to work as a stringer to document evidence of this violation. We are all citizen journalists now.
Cops are reticent to mess with people showing a valid press-pass issued by a legitimate news organization and having one would allow them to take photographic evidence as well as provide an outlet for that evidence. I can't see many editors saying "no", it doesn't cost them anything until the stringer come back with something worth running and every editor loves an explosive breaking story that might get picked up and go national. It does however mean that the citizen-journalist will have to curb their own protest activities, their role become that of documenting and reporting the truth...further protest activities will present an air of bias that undermines their credibility.
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