A Day of Protests, Spared of Confrontations (Convention) Fourth day of protests

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Demonstrations began Sunday. Ten undocumented demonstrators were arrested Tuesday.

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September 5, 2012, 7:44 pm
A Day of Protests, Spared of Confrontations
By VIV BERNSTEIN

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – <snip>

A flash mob that grew to 150 to 200 marched in the streets protesting corporate money in politics and the handling of detainees, just as delegates were arriving in the afternoon for the second day of the convention. The group was surrounded by police officers but allowed to march to within about a block of Time Warner Cable Arena, gathering in an intersection for several minutes.

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It was one of several protests during the day, including a gathering of about two dozen in front of the Duke Energy Center. Protesters planned to give the company’s chairman and chief executive, Jim Rogers, a U.S.B. flash drive that included 150,000 signatures asking the corporation to stop supporting the American Legislative Exchange Council, which promotes conservative causes with lawmakers around the nation.

“ALEC is responsible for a host of right-wing backwards bills all over the country that are totally written by corporations like Duke to benefit corporations like Duke,’’ said Ben Carroll, part of the Coalition to March on Wall Street South. “There’s been in recent months a lot of pressure on a lot of these corporations that are part of ALEC, and leading many of them to leave. So we’ve got to keep the pressure on.”

<snip>“There are things that he can do right now that he’s not doing,’’ Unzueta Carrasco, an undocumented immigrant who was arrested on Tuesday, said of Mr. Obama. “If I’m going to continue believing in him as my president, I need him to take those actions and I need him to take those steps to really support every person in our community.”

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“It’s not and it’s bad manners in the South to protest,’’ said Beth Henry, a retired corporate lawyer from Charlotte who was on the streets protesting Duke’s contribution to global warning, “and I wouldn’t be out here if there wasn’t so much at stake.”

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