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Miami, Florida: 700 to
1,000 (150+ had registered by e-mail) - 2 blocks
closed
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Los Angeles,
California: 500 (police estimate) to 1,000 (225 had
registered by e mail)
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New York, New York: 100
(110 had registered by e-mail)*
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Chicago, Illinois: 100
(35 had registered by e-mail)
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Atlanta, Georgia: 60
(40 had registered by e-mail)
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San Francisco,
California: 50 (42 had registered by e-mail)
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Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania: 50 (40 had registered by e-mail)
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Seattle, Washington: 40
(26 had registered by e-mail)
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Boston, Massachusetts:
40 (30 had registered by e-mail) *
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Charlotte, North
Carolina: 40
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Houston, Texas: pending
(30 had registered by e-mail)
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Jacksonville, Florida:
pending
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Louisville, Kentucky:
pending
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Kansas City, Missouri:
pending
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Washington, DC: pending
I will uploading city
reports in the next few days.
Media Coverage
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NBC
Nightly News with Tom Brokaw reported the
demonstrations in a 15 second story Wednesday evening.
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AKEF led the news in
Miami, Florida's Miami Herald, which ran the
headline: "Demonstrators seen
coast-to-coast" and reported: "From Miami to
Jersey City, D.C. to L.A., hundreds of demonstrators
marched to federal courthouses, waved Old Glory, sang
the national anthem, shouted "God Bless
America!'' and listened to Bruce Springsteen's Born in
the USA. Their cause: to keep Elian Gonzalez in
America. "Americans to Keep Elian Free''
exercised their civil liberties Wednesday with rallies
in 15 major U.S. cities and even down under in
Melbourne, Australia." This is an American
issue,'' organizer Mark Da Cunha, 29, said in Miami.
"It involves individual rights which should
concern all Americans." The story is available by
clicking here.
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Cable News Network's
(CNN) Headline News regularly reported the AKEF
rallies during its top stories rotation and repeatedly
aired footage of the Washington, DC, rally.
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Fox News Channel aired
footage of one of the nationwide demonstrations during
its hourly headline reports.
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New England Cable News
reported news of the national AKEF demonstrations
during their 10 and 11 o'clock news broadcasts and
aired footage of the Atlanta and New York's
demonstrations.
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Los Angeles TV station
KCAL, channel 9, aired 10 to 15 seconds of footage of
the Los Angeles rally on its 10 o'clock news broadcast
on May 10
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San Francisco area TV
station KNTV, channel 11, reported and aired the San
Francisco rally in Union Square during its 6 o'clock
news broadcast
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Chicago's AKEF speaker,
Alexander Maher, was interviewed by a popular
Indianapolis, Indiana talk radio host on the eve of
the Chicago rally
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Boston's demonstration
was aired live at noon on Boston's channel 7, WHDH,
again at 12:30 pm, and again during the evening news
broadcasts.
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Charlotte, North
Carolina's CBS News' affiliate, WBTV, aired the
Charlotte demonstration
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Pittsburgh's Fox TV
station, WPGH channel 53, aired covered, reported and
aired footage of the Pittsburgh demonstration on its
10 o'clock news broadcast on May 10. WPGH-TV reported
the AKEF demonstrations, reported national coordinator
Mark Da Cunha's petition and noted that it has over
11,000 signatures. Also, Fox also ran a clip from an
interview with a demonstrator who compared Cuba to a
Nazi concentration camp and equated communism with
slavery.
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Seattle's demonstration
was reported in the Seattle Times, which published a
photo of demonstrator Amy Chase and her son,
surrounded by posters.
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Pittsburgh's rally
received prominent and extensive coverage in the
city's major newspaper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
in an article available at: this
link
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Charlotte's ABC News'
affiliate, Channel 9, aired footage of the Charlotte
rally.
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CBS News' Atlanta
affiliate, WGNX channel 46, fully covered and reported
Atlanta's rally and aired an interview in a video clip
available at: this
link
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Seattle TV station KIRO
covered and aired footage of the Seattle rally on May
10
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Atlanta's CBS station,
WGNX, had also presented an interview with Atlanta
coordinator Scott Hughes as one of its lead stories on
the Sunday 11 o'clock news broadcast
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Atlanta's rally was
featured during a news broadcast on San Francisco's
Spanish language TV station KDTV, channel 14, which
also aired interviews with Atlanta demonstrators. The
segment concluded with footage of the San Francisco
demonstrators' march to Union Square and an interview
with San Francisco demonstrator Israel Sanchez
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Spanish-language San
Francsico TV station KSTS, channel 48, aired
interviews with three demonstrators
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World
Net Daily article
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Associated Press (AP)
interviewed Los Angeles spokesman Scott Holleran,
whose comments were quoted in several AP stories used
by newspapers, magazines and Web sites
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Boston speaker Peter
Schwartz was interviewed by a reporter for National
Public Radio about the ethics of immigration
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New York coordinator
Andrew Hazlett was interviewed by Radio Marti
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Los Angeles spokesman
Scott Holleran was interviewed by Catholic Family
Radio in a pre-rally broadcast
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San Francisco news
radio station, KSFO (560), made several announcements
about the AKEF rally there on May 10
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Los Angeles
demonstrator and Vietnam War veteran Ronnie Guyer was
interviewed for 30 minutes on LA's K-LITE 1390 AM by
Christian talk radio host Jane Chastain
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The Charlotte Observer
interviewed Charlotte coordinator Daniel Wahl and
quoted him saying that the demonstration was primarily
for freedom
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Pittsburgh's rally was
also reported in the area's Tribune-Review newspaper.
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Southern California's
May 11 edition of the Orange County Register reported
the AP story on page 16 of the news section
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Miami Herald published
an announcement of the Miami and nationwide
demonstrations
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Boston Globe
interviewed Boston coordinator Catherine Courtemanche
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The Charlotte Observer
interviewed speaker Gary Hull, who called Castro's
government "a destructive, inhumane
dictatorship" and said "There is no freedom
of speech, no free association. There's no rights at
all, let alone, as Janet Reno claims, the rights of a
father."
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Boston Herald
interviewed Boston coordinator Catherine Courtemanche
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The national AKEF
rallies were reported by MSNBC at: http://www.msnbc.com/news/386305.asp
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Los Angeles
demonstrator Matt Moreles's essay in favor of Elian's
individual rights was published in the UCLA Daily
Bruin and U-Wire, a college newspaper syndicate and
is available by clicking here.
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CNN covered the Los
Angeles rally and interviewed speaker Leonard Peikoff,
Ph.D., and several demonstrators
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NBC News's Los Angeles
affiliate, KNBC, covered the Los Angeles rally
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CBS News's Los Angeles
affiliate, KCBS, covered the Los Angeles rally
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ABC News's Los Angeles
affiliate, KABC, covered the Los Angeles rally
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Chicago's super station
WGN covered the Chicago rally and interviewed Chicago
demonstrators
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WBZ News Radio 1030
covered the Boston rally
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The Associated Press
covered the Boston rally
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The Boston Herald and
the Boston Globe covered the Boston rally
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AKEF rallies were
covered in a string of wire reports and articles in
newspapers, magazines and on the Web:
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News on Demonstration
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Photos
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Photos 2
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Miami
Herald Breaking News
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CBS
Marketwatch News Alert 1
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CBS
Marketwatch News Alert 2
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Yahoo
Article on Elian Rally
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Yahoo
Article 1
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Yahoo
article 2
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Washington
Post
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Yahoo
News
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CNN
Covergae
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LA
Times
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National
Review
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LA's Spanish language
newspaper, La Opinion, published an article on the
asylum hearing with a photo of one of the rallies and
a caption reporting the nationwide rallies
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Fox
News
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Detroit
News
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Miami
Hearlad
The goal of these demonstrations was to make
Americans aware that the
moral thing to do is the American thing
to do: protect Elián's right to his own life by keeping
Elián free in America, since according to Cuban law his
life does not belong to him, but to the state.