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FBI Monitored Convention Protest Organizer Websites

HeadlineJul 18, 2005

Newly released documents confirm that the FBI counter-terrorism unit was monitoring activist web sites used by coalitions for organizing protests at the 2004 political conventions in Boston and New York. The documents were released under the Freedom of Information Act in response to a lawsuit filed by a coalition of civil rights, animal rights and environmental groups. One document from Sept. 4, 2003 addressed to the FBI counterterrorism unit described plans by the group ”RNC Not Welcome” to “disrupt” the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York. It also described Internet postings from the United for Peace and Justice coalition which was coordinating worldwide protests at the time.

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