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Making News : Protesters Fear Message Getting Lost

From USA Today, August 26, 2004:


NEW YORK — When a busload of 35 anti-war demonstrators pulls out of Kalamazoo, Mich., Saturday night, each passenger will have a six-page booklet written by organizer Olga Bonfiglio.

Bring food, water, identification and signs mounted only on cardboard tubes, it says. And remember: "If you get arrested, we're not going to bail you out, and we're not going to wait for you on the bus."

Out-of-town demonstrators coming here for Sunday's protest march on the eve of the Republican convention say the controversy over the march's route and heightened security may reduce the size of the crowd but should not distract from their goal: protesting the Bush administration.

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