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	Boston.com / News / Nation / Lawsuit: NYC created 'Guantanamo' at RNC
		Saying the city had created its "own little Guantanamo on the Hudson" during the Republican National Convention, a lawyer Monday filed a lawsuit on behalf of nearly 2,000 people arrested at demonstrations.
		NEW YORK --Saying the city had created its "own little Guantanamo on the Hudson" during the Republican National Convention, a lawyer Monday filed a lawsuit on behalf of nearly 2,000 people arrested at demonstrations.
		The federal lawsuit claims protesters and bystanders alike were rounded up in mass arrests without cause; were kept without access to their lawyers or families at an old bus depot used as a temporary detention center; and were exposed for days to cruel and inhuman conditions.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/11/22/lawsuit_nyc_created_guantanamo_at_rnc?mode=PF (322 words)

	Guardian \| Judge fines city of New York and orders release of jailed protesters
		While George Bush was delivering his keynote speech, demonstrators trickled out, complaining of being held in a bus cleaning station beside the Hudson river without access to lawyers.
		Many of those held in what protesters have branded "Guantánamo by the Hudson", said they were not involved in anti-Bush demonstrations but had been swept up by overzealous police.
		They included the manager of a theatre who was coming out of a subway station with a friend on their way to celebrate his birthday, and two women who had been shopping.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5008260-103681,00.html (471 words)

	Pier 57 pens are called ‘Guantanamo on Hudson’
		United for Peace and Justice, the group that sponsored the Aug. 29 protest march, described the detention center on Pier 57 as “Guantanamo on the Hudson.” The group intends to demonstrate in front of the pier at 10 a.m.
		The 300,000-sq.-ft. pier, completed in 1954, last served as a Transit Authority bus depot a year ago and in June came under the control of the Hudson River Park Trust, which is seeking a developer to transform the pier into a commercial and park destination.
		However, Chris Martin, spokesperson for Hudson River Park, in a statement on Tuesday said, Asbestos is not considered to be a health problem unless there is an exposure pathway to airborne asbestos.
	www.thevillager.com /villager_70/pier57pens.html (799 words)

	2004 Republican National Convention protest activity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A protester is arrested demonstrating against George W. Bush and the RNC.
		The facility was a former bus garage on Pier 57 on the Hudson River in Manhattan, a three-story, block-long pier that has been converted into a temporary holding facility, though unfit for detention of prisoners.
		Arrested protesters have complained about extremely poor conditions describing it as overcrowded, dirty, and contaminated with oil and asbestos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2004_Republican_National_Convention_protest_activity (2183 words)

	Make of this what you will.
		By the time they notice the water is boiling it's too late for them to jump out.
		At a press conference on Wednesday morning on the West Side Highway just opposite the warehouse detention center that activists have dubbed "Guantanamo on the Hudson"activists simultaneously denounced and exulted at the extraordinary number of people who have been arrested protesting the Republican Convention: 1200 on Tuesday, nearly 1800 over the week.
		That's the largest number of arrests in the history of party conventions, they noted, and coming on the heals of the hundreds of thousands who marched on Sunday, the strongest show of dissent ever mounted against a president.
	homepage.mac.com /jonboyg/iblog/C1757694894/E1366587686 (168 words)

	The CHUD.COM Message Boards - NYC protestors file suit against police (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		NEW YORK (AP) -- Saying the city had created its "own little Guantanamo on the Hudson" during the Republican National Convention, a lawyer Monday filed a lawsuit on behalf of nearly 2,000 people arrested at demonstrations.
		In Toronto, we have gotten away with a 400-person snake march through the financial district during the late afternoon and which culminated in a effigy burning in the middle of a major intersection with no arrests.
		However, as bad as Pier 57 was, I feel that it is somewhat of a misnomer to compare it to constitutional bitch-slap that is Guantanamo Bay.
	www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?t=74039 (1309 words)

	This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow: September 05, 2004 - September 11, 2004 Archives
		A second Delta rep, more senior, simply apologized, agreed that the incident sounded, um, unusual, and promised to try to find out everything she could about what happened.
		The following pales compared to Guantanamo on the Hudson, below.
		Some people in one of my cells at Pier 57 still had a cell phone and they called Democracy Now, this is a transcript of their talks. Most of them were arrested where I was on 16th St and most werenât even protesting.
	www.thismodernworld.com /weblog/mtarchives/week_2004_09_05.html (2617 words)

	Complaints Swirl Over Holding Area for Arrested Protesters
		NEW YORK -- To the protesters, it's Guantanamo on the Hudson.
		Either way, the dilapidated, hulking pier on the Hudson River in Manhattan has become a landmark of sorts in the clash between activists and authorities at the Republican National Convention.
		Sitting less than 20 blocks south of Madison Square Garden and extending hundreds of feet into the Hudson, Pier 57 once was a terminal for cruise ships.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines04/0902-03.htm (701 words)

	Indymedia UK - "Guantanamo on the Hudson" - police repression in New York
		"Guantanamo on the Hudson" - police repression in New York
		News of the conditions emerged only after a mobile-phone was smiuggled into the camp, and was passed around, since detainees have been denied phone calls.
		They complained of the cold, the chemicals, and had no idea how long they would be held.The prison has already been nicknamed "Guantanamo on the Hudson." New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the use of the of the pier garage saying "It's not supposed to be Club Med."
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2004/09/297199.html (719 words)

	Jamais Vu
		and the fucking link to the firsthand account of being detained in the "Guantanamo on the Hudson" was broken.
		Tourists, old ladies and gentlemen, a building superintendent who was taking out the garbage, teenagers on their first date to a play, ministers, students, bicycle messengers and a good number of bruised and dirty yet singing and chanting protesters.
		I was held for 14 hours in Pier 57, also called "Guantanamo on the Hudson," a warehouse previously used by the MTA as an automobile garage.
	robertschofield.evolutionaryrevolution.com /2004_09_05_jamaisvuarchive.html (5044 words)

	NYC's Pier 57 : Asbestos-ridden Toxic Guantanamo on the Hudson : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		NYC's Pier 57 : Asbestos-ridden Toxic Guantanamo on the Hudson : SF Indymedia
		NYC's Pier 57 : Asbestos-ridden Toxic Guantanamo on the Hudson
		A spokesman for the pier's owner, Hudson River Park Trust, declined to comment on the holding pen at Pier 57.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1702407 (532 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Guantanamo On the Hudson: Detained RNC Protesters Describe Prison Conditions
		Guantanamo On the Hudson: Detained RNC Protesters Describe Prison Conditions
		New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has denied the city's operating what some have called Guantanamo on the Hudson, defended the use of the pier garage, saying, quote, it's not supposed to be Club Med.
		AMY GOODMAN: Simone Levine is with us, lead organizer of the National Lawyer’s Guild Campaign to protect the rights of prisoners during the Republican National Convention.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=04/09/02/1454254 (3749 words)

	On Lisa Rein's Radar: Eddie Is Released From "The Guantanamo By The Hudson" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On Lisa Rein's Radar: Eddie Is Released From "The Guantanamo By The Hudson"
		« UNDO Process At "The Guantanamo By The Hudson" (At The Republican National Convention)
		Eddie Is Released From "The Guantanamo By The Hudson"
	www.onlisareinsradar.com /archives/002174.php (346 words)

	Joshuah Bearman: Nickel Defense
		At 15th Street on the West Side Highway, the City of New York has set up a temporary detention center on Pier 57 for people arrested during the RNC protests.
		While the red carpet is being rolled out for the RNC, the City is housing protesters who were detained during sweep arrests in demeaning, dehumanizing, and potentially hazardous conditions.
		The situation is so bad that many are calling Pier 57 "Guantánamo on the Hudson." We call on the City of New York to move all arrestees out of this facility immediately.
	laweekly.blogs.com /joshuah_bearman/2004/08/nickel_defense.html (560 words)

	firstamendmentcenter.org: news
		NEW YORK —; Saying New York created its “own little Guantanamo on the Hudson” during the Republican National Convention, a lawyer yesterday filed a lawsuit seeking relief for nearly 2,000 arrested protesters and bystanders.
		He accused the city of suspending the Constitution and illegally rounding up and detaining hundreds of people “in its single-minded goal to empty the streets of political protest.” The lawsuit seeks class-action status.
		They created their own little ‘Guantanamo on the Hudson’ equipped with chain link fences and razor wire and guards armed with machine guns escorting prisoners everywhere.”
	www.firstamendmentcenter.org /news.aspx?id=14410 (800 words)

	DC Indymedia: newswire/104940 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The point of the march was to highlight the plight of those lost in the detentions system, especially those being held without charges and under hoods in Guantanamo Bay.
		While Dave and others had masks on for a photo op highlighting the conditions at Guantanamo, the police arrested a man nearby.
		Onwards to Pier 57, Guantanamo on the Hudson
	dc.indymedia.org /newswire/display/104940/index.php (12350 words)

	TalkLeft: Judge Orders Protesters Released (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Conditions at the make-shift jail at Pier 57 were reportedly deplorable, prompting a rally yesterday to protest "Guantanamo on the Hudson." You can read the stories of some of those arrested in their own words here and here.
		Perhaps he also stole the last candy bar from little Cindy Sue's haloween bag while he was at it.
		But Guantanamo was supposed to be "The Gulag" of the 21st Century.
	www.talkleft.com /new_archives/007766.html (1221 words)

	Guantanamo on the Hudson: Pier 57 - did the RNC rent it for NYC Cops? - International Rights and Freedoms - Indymedia ...
		Guantanamo on the Hudson: Pier 57 - did the RNC rent it for NYC Cops?
		My 21-year old daughter disappeared from NYC last Tuesday afternoon when walking with friends through a park where no protest was being held -- and was held prisoner -- without being charged -- by the NYPD for three days.
		The notorious Pier 57 (owned by the Hudson River Trust--a city/state consortium) was dubbed "Little Guantanamo" by reporters who also got caught up in police sweeps and who said it looked like the Guantanamo Bay prison built by the USA to hold the Al Qaeda terrorist political prisoners in Cuba.
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=66605&type=otherpress (528 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Lawsuit alleges 'Guantanamo on the Hudson'
		Boston.com / News / Nation / Lawsuit alleges 'Guantanamo on the Hudson'
		NEW YORK -- Saying the city had created its ''own little Guantanamo on the Hudson" during the Republican National Convention, a lawyer filed a lawsuit yesterday on behalf of nearly 2,000 people arrested at demonstrations.
		The federal lawsuit claims protesters and bystanders were rounded up in mass arrests without cause, were kept without access to their lawyers or families at an old bus depot used as a temporary detention center, and were exposed for days to cruel and inhuman conditions.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/11/23/lawsuit_alleges_guantanamo_on_the_hudson (292 words)

	New York Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		You seemed to have missed the point with your "Guantanamo on the Hudson Reconsidered" (Page Two, 9/8).
		Commissioner Kelly either was grossly misinformed or lied outright when he claimed that nobody was kept in "Guantanamo on the Hudson" for more than eight hours.
		You'll note that it was shut down only shortly before Bush left town, and you can bet there are dozens, if not hundreds, of lawyers who are now looking into this.
	www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=11108 (2111 words)

	On Lisa Rein's Radar: UNDO Process At "The Guantanamo By The Hudson" (At The Republican National Convention) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On Lisa Rein's Radar: UNDO Process At "The Guantanamo By The Hudson" (At The Republican National Convention)
		Eddie Is Released From "The Guantanamo By The Hudson" »
		right now he could be delirious, tired, smelly and around the coolest people in the world out in the desert instead of delirious, tired, smelly and around the coolest people in the world in the guantanomo by the hudson.
	www.onlisareinsradar.com /archives/002173.php (426 words)

	bloggy: Guantanamo on the Hudson
		Young GOPer kicking an activist on the floor
		The New York Press isn't exactly a left-wing paper, but here is what they have to say about the barbed wire holding pens on the pier on the Hudson:
		By the time we hit the streets with this issue, we're sure it will be common knowledge, but it wasn't until late last week that the NYPD announced their plans to turn Pier 57, at 11th Ave.
	bloggy.com /mt/archives/004332.html (286 words)

	Pt.2, H.L.Does Time, H.L gets shipped to Guantanamo on the Hudson, After a harrowing Bus ride. Aug.31 2004
		One guy laid down on the floor and refused to get up, delaying the bus ride even more, A couple of the cops tried to get him up, but he refused to budge.
		Finally they dragged him to the middle of the bus, and left him there where he remained until we arrived at "Guantanamo." The bus finally started moving.
		I thought about doing this just to wipe off some sweat and do some scratching, but I figured that if I could not get it back on the cops would really be pissed so I left it on.
	www.thehollywoodliberal.com /day4_2.htm (1857 words)

	"Protests against globalization in DC, Miami, Cancun, Sacramento: Shutting Down the WTO Economy? "
		Guantanamo on the Hudson: toxic residue for jailed protesters
		We gathered in Franklin Square in downtown DC on a beautiful day, and after a rally marched to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund buildings.
		Peer 57--a k a Guantanamo on the Hudson--is reportedly filled with toxic chemicals and asbestos.
	www.culturechange.org /WTOprotests.html (4544 words)

	Arrestees, Lawyers, Medics Condemn Conditions of RNC Protest Detention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Outside a holding facility medics and protesters call 'Guantanamo on the Hudson,' former detainees and medics describe the conditions inside as 'inhumane' as police slowly release people in response to a court order.
		She and others are calling the arrangement "Guantanamo on the Hudson," drawing a comparison between the conditions at Pier 57 and the infamous US detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba where hundreds of foreign prisoners have been held for over two years in restrictive lock-down, without access to lawyers.
		Kamisaruk works with the National Lawyers Guild, a consortium of legal activists who take on social movements-related cases, and is a member of the Just Cause Law Collective in California, which specializes in cases of police misconduct.
	newstandardnews.net /content?action=show_item&itemid=942 (1778 words)

	Pre-crime bust at RNC; inside "Gitmo on the Hudson", 15 Sept 04
		Pier 57 on NYC's West Side Highway as seen from the Hudson River.
		Once the smaller cages were filled, many were placed in this large cage prior to further processing.
		It was apparent that some time ago the sides of the facility were sandbagged to protect the Hudson River from the runoff of this facility.
	www.notinourname.net /rnc/pre-crime.htm (2825 words)

	Greater Democracy: Guantanamo on the Hudson
		The other day Jock asked if it was excessive to talk about Baghdad on the Hudson, “a city occupied by a power elite who treat the residents as second class citizens with fungible civil rights.
		Many people are referring to it as “Guantanamo on the Hudson”.
		Others are complaining that this is a bit of an overstatement.
	www.greaterdemocracy.org /archives/000201.html (377 words)

	Newtopia Magazine \| EXCLUSIVE REPORT: "Guantanamo on the Hudson", by Charles Shaw, Editor-in-Chief // Sept. 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In criminalizing Free Speech and Freedom of Assembly-which is precisely what happened in New York City this week-America has moved itself closer to the Orwellian gulag state that we activists have been screaming about for the last four years.
		The clear symbol of this abrogation of rights was a run down bus depot on a pier off the West Side Highway called Pier 57, but quickly renamed Guantanamo on the Hudson.
		After an entire weekend of stunning mass actions-the thousands of Critical Mass riders on Friday, the Green World festival on Saturday, the massive half-million strong United for Peace and Justice march on Sunday, and the explosive Poor People's Marches on Monday-it was time for a different approach, to communicate a very different message.
	www.newtopiamagazine.net /content/issue18/features/guantanamo.php (7398 words)

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