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To: Mephisto who wrote (9471)	1/22/2001 11:29:52 AM
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<<Serious Protests Yesterday>> ‘Rent-a-Mobs’ Descend on D.C. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By James D. Harder harder@insightmag.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The throngs of demonstrators at Bush inaugural events were not just students or young adults, but seasoned professionals who make protesting their full-time jobs. While the U.S. Secret Service was setting up sniper posts and checkpoints along Pennsylvania Avenue, Teresa Gutierrez was making posters and arranging housing for the waves of protesters expected to sweep over Washington to harass the inauguration of George W. Bush. Gutierrez, a 50-year-old from New York City, came to Washington two weeks early to help get things ready for well-orchestrated protests. Today’s demonstrators aren’t just students and twentysomethings flying by the seats of their pants. Many are seasoned professionals who are part of a fine-tuned, technologically savvy protest machine that is backed by labor unions and individual financial sponsors. Gutierrez has been a staff member with the New York-based International Action Center (IAC) since its inception in 1992. Coming to Washington early gave her the opportunity to arrange housing, poster-painting venues, bus parking and other necessities for the tens of thousands of protesters who were being recruited to give Bush a black eye. The IAC has had so much practice organizing protests this year that critics have begun calling it “Rent-a-Mob.” Two political conventions last summer, and high-profile protests in Prague and Washington state, have helped create a highly professional organization. (cont) insightmag.com

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