CREDO Action: This is America. We don't jail journalists here.

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Journalists in handcuffs at the RNC.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 2:34 PM
From: "Kate Stayman-London, CREDO Action" <[e-mail]>
CREDO Action: Tools for Change from Working Assets

Americans need to see this footage.
screengrabs of Amy Goodman's arrest

Watch the video, then demand that CNN and MSNBC cover it.
take action now! http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/dont_arrest_journalists/

This is America. We don't jail journalists here.

A free press is supposed to be a cornerstone of our democracy. But journalists are being arrested at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.

Award winning journalist and host of "Democracy Now" Amy Goodman was arrested by St. Paul police on Monday while covering a protest outside the Republican National Convention. Though clearly identified as press, Goodman was charged with "obstruction of a legal process and interference with a 'peace officer.'" Two of her producers were arrested for "suspicion of felony riot."

You won't believe how upsetting this arrest was until you see it. Click here to watch the video, then take action.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/dont_arrest_journalists/

Goodman and her producers were released Monday night. AP photographer Matt Rourke was also arrested and released after police doused him with pepper spray and forced him to the ground, scraping up his elbows and knees.

Worse, charges are still pending against all of these journalists simply for trying to do their jobs.

Amazingly, this story has been virtually ignored by the mainstream press. The cable channels are providing extensive coverage of events related to the Republican National Convention, but there has been a virtual news blackout on the arrest of Amy Goodman and the "Democracy Now" team.

Americans deserve to know that journalists are being jailed for trying to do their jobs. We must demand that CNN and MSNBC include this story in their coverage of the RNC.

Click here to e-mail CNN President Jonathan Klein and NBC News President Steve Capus to demand coverage of this brutally important story.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/dont_arrest_journalists

Thank you for working to build a better world.

Kate Stayman-London, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets


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Omaha Steve. Credo is fiercely anti-union.

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2. We can change that!!

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3. Caught me

I post about the anti-union company in the Labor Forum AFTER I posted this.