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Court strategy planned for ‘People’s March’ permits during G-20
By Carl Prine
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Leaders from more than 40 local and national protest groups vowed to pack a federal courtroom and Pittsburgh City Council chambers today to send a message that they’ll fight for the right to demonstrate Downtown during the Group of 20 economic summit.
They met Tuesday night in East Liberty Presbyterian Church on the eve of the hearings, which will determine whether protesters can camp in parks, erect “tent cities” in Point State Park or rally at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, where the summit will take place.
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
By Doug McGill
An unlikely, even unprecedented Ethiopian protest march will be held in Washington, DC this Sunday, bringing together for the first time members of many diverse Ethiopian ethnic groups.
All of these groups – including members of Ethiopia’s Oromo, Amhara, Tigray, Anuak, Ogaden, and other ethnicities – all say they have suffered brutal economic, military and social repression under the regime Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, which took power in Ethiopia in 1991.
But never before have members of a wide range of civic and political groups joined together in a large-scale march and protest in Washington. Some 20 Ethiopian immigrants living in Minnesota, representing several ethnic groups, will take part in the march, its organizers say.
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