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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 04:57 AM
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Activists demonstrate near mayor's home (Yippies protest Bloomberg & RNC)
August 23, 2004, 1:59 AM EDT

NEW YORK -- A group of activists best known for their protests during the Vietnam War have set their sights on two new targets: Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the upcoming Republican National Convention.

About 60 members of the Youth International Party, or Yippies, stood at the edge of Central Park near Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Upper East Side apartment Sunday to chant in protest of the GOP meeting.

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"Bloomberg set up a situation where there'll be total chaos if they don't let them have the park," said Aron Kaye, 54, a longtime Yippie.

The convention itself _ not protesters _ would pose the greatest threat to the city's security, organizers said.

"Right wing fundamentalists make New York an even bigger target" for terrorists, said John Penley, an organizer. "We don't want them here."

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--cvn-yippies0823aug22,0,3173497.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire
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JSJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 05:20 AM
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1. good to see some experience at the barricades n/t
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 05:42 AM
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2. I had no idea they were still around...
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 05:45 AM
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3. I have to admit that I was a bit surprised they were still around too
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 06:08 AM
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4. Unfortunately, their most colorful member is no longer with us...
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 06:16 AM
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5. ya gotta love 'im!
woohoo!
that's my kinda protest!
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