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Convergence Center / Really Really Free Market / Cops Crush Jail Solidarity Demo
 
Noon - Tom Hayden, Medea Benjamin, Mark Rand, and I visit Convergence Ctr, Really Really Free Market. Then to jail solidarity demo, where police beat and arrest 62 people.
 

   


outside convergence center
outside convergence center
"Welcome to the Really Really Free Market"
piņata
bike cops near RRFM
 
free massasges
free lessons in folding origami cranes
free juggling lessons
free hugs
free art supplies
free art
drummer
rogue medic
"really really free health care"
free poetry
 
"Cops really really moved our really really free market one block"
Millie, Tom hayden, Mark Rand
Hillary, Mike Dolan, little Ruby
Jail solidarity press conf: Gretchen Gordon, Medea Benjamin, Ron Judd
Lisa Hoyos, AFL-CIO
Panagioti, local activist shows off wound from rubber bullet
Brenna Bell, Marc Alain Steier, Lawyers Guild, w/ rubber bullets, lead beanbag
Medea Benjamin compares Miami policing to occupation of Baghdad
Wobblies!
protesters march to lot across street from Miami-Dade county jail
police begin to gather in front of jail
Police, protesters negotiate. Police say protesters must stay in lot.
Negotiations continue.
demonstrators sing, dance, chant: "Let them out! Let them out!"
police actually call this their Robocop outfit
protesters break into affinity groups, spokescouncil to discuss expectations, demands
Miami Herald photogs pose for group pic
police say protesters are "amassing rocks", declare unlawful assembly
most walk East, but organizer David Solnit (r) and 6 others sit down
police surround Solnit and others, arresting them
line of cops blocks cameras' view of arrests
police advance East, pushing protesters farther from jail
police pursue protesters
my cousin Christian Utne, with protesters facing off w/ cops
Tom Hayden advises 2 of his Harvard students of dangers of confronting cops
hands in air, protesters chant to police "put down your weapons"
police declare protest "unlawful assembly"
2 more of Tom Hayden's students, Jordan and Anne, minutes before being arrested
protesters back away on sidewalk, chanting "we are dispersing," police swoop in
cops pepper spray and arrest peacefully dispersing protesters,
paddy wagons take away 62 arrestees