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...just a regular voter belonging to the very group that John McCain so desperately wants to impress, about as close as you can come to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., this September will be a triangle of pavement about 84 feet from the Xcel Energy Center, the sports arena where McCain plans to accept the nomination. Non-credentialed citizens at the Democratic convention in Denver will be directed to a fenced-in portion of "Parking Lot A" several football-field lengths away from the Pepsi Center, where the party will produce a late-August teleplay in honor...
...This time around, the groups organizing massive protests in St. Paul and Denver are making sure to avoid the same mistakes. "We learned something from Boston," says Meredith Aby, 35, a public-school teacher who is helping to organize the Coalition to March on the RNC and Stop the War protest in St. Paul. "The people in Boston said you need to start your legal process early and you need to make your struggle very early...
...Similar objections run through the legal filings in both cities. Both St. Paul and Denver have announced plans to restrict marches to certain hours during the middle of the day, before delegates are likely to arrive at the convention halls. "The question is whether we are going to be marching to an empty building," says Bob Hennessey, an attorney at Linquist and Vennum, who is representing the St. Paul coalition...
...Under current plans, the arrangements for protesters in St. Paul appear to provide protesters with closer access to the entrance of the convention hall than in Denver, where the arena is buffered from the protest area by hundreds of meters of parking lots, some of which may be filled with media trailers. "People will be considerably closer in St. Paul," says Mark Silverstein, an attorney with the Colorado ACLU who is helping to lead the litigation there...
...Pope is expected to address the plight of Australia's Aborigines, which John Paul II eloquently brought up during his visit in 1986. The German pontiff will spend the first four days of his visit resting at a retreat outside of Sydney run by the conservative Catholic group Opus...