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From Scott Holleran Here are the early attendance reports from each city's demonstrations: Los Angeles, California: 500 (police estimate) to 1,000 (225 had registered by e mail) Miami, Florida: 500 to 1,000 (150 had registered by e-mail) *New York, New York: 100 (110 had registered by e-mail) Chicago, Illinois: 100 (35 had registered by e-mail) Atlanta, Georgia: 60 (40 had registered by e-mail) San Francisco, California: 50 (42 had registered by e-mail) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 50 (40 had registered by e-mail) Seattle, Washington: 40 (26 had registered by e-mail) *Boston, Massachusetts: 40 (30 had registered by e-mail) Charlotte, North Carolina: 40 Houston, Texas: pending (30 had registered by e-mail) Jacksonville, Florida: pending Louisville, Kentucky: pending Kansas City, Missouri: pending Washington, DC: pending *poor weather Reports vary according to methods used for counting demonstrators. For example, Chicago organizer Mark Kormes kept close tabs on the number of demonstrators--he personally greeted each individual--while some organizers reported peak attendance and others reported the attendance only of those who stayed for the duration of the demonstration. <snip> <MEDIA COVERAGE> NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw reported the demonstrations in a 15 second story Wednesday evening. The national AKEF rallies were reported by MSNBC at: http://www.msnbc.com/news/386305.asp AKEF led the news in Miami, FloridaΉs Miami Herald, which ran the headline: ³Demonstrators seen coast-to-coast" and reported: ³From 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 at: http://www.herald.com/content/archive/news/rafters99/docs2/046855.htm 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 Fox News Channel aired footage of one of the nationwide demonstrations during its hourly headline reports 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. 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 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 Chicago's AKEF speaker, Adam Mossoff, was interviewed by a popular Indianapolis, Indiana talk radio host on the eve of the Chicago rally 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. Charlotte, North Carolina's CBS News' affiliate, WBTV, aired the Charlotte demonstration 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. Seattle's demonstration was reported in the Seattle Times, which published a photo of demonstrator Amy Chase and her son, surrounded by posters. Pittsburgh's rally received prominent and extensive coverage in the city's major newspaper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in an article available at: www.post gazette.com/headlines/20000511elian1.asp Charlotte's ABC News' affiliate, Channel 9, aired footage of the Charlotte rally. CBS News' Atlanta affiliate, WGNX channel 46, fully covered and reported Atlanta's rally and aired an interview in a video clip available at: www.reactv.com/media/wgnx/2000/05/10/wgnx000510a-Elian.rpm Seattle TV station KIRO covered and aired footage of the Seattle rally on May 10 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 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 demonostrator Israel Sanchez Spanish-language San Francsico TV station KSTS, channel 48, aired interviews with three demonstrators Associated Press (AP) interviewed Los Angeles spokesman Scott Holleran, whose comments were quoted in several AP stories used by newspapers, magazines and Web sites Boston speaker Peter Schwartz was interviewed by a reporter for National Public Radio about the ethics of immigration New York coordinator Andrew Hazlett was interviewed by Radio Marti Los Angeles spokesman Scott Holleran was interviewed by Catholic Family Radio in a pre-rally broadcast San Francisco news radio station, KSFO (560), made several announcements about the AKEF rally there on May 10 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 The Charlotte Observer interviewed Charlotte coordinator Daniel Wahl and quoted him saying that the demonstration was primarily for freedom Pittsburgh's rally was also reported in the area's Tribune-Review newspaper. Southern California's May 11 edition of the Orange County Register reported the AP story on page 16 of the news section Miami Herald published an announcement of the Miami and nationwide demonstrations Boston Globe interviewed Boston coordinator Catherine Courtemanche 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." Boston Herald interviewed Boston coordinator Catherine Courtemanche 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: news.excite.com/news/uw/000510/university-19 CNN covered the Los Angeles rally and interviewed speaker Leonard Peikoff, Ph.D., and several demonstrators NBC News's Los Angeles affiliate, KNBC, covered the Los Angeles rally CBS News's Los Angeles affiliate, KCBS, covered the Los Angeles rally ABC News's Los Angeles affiliate, KABC, covered the Los Angeles rally Chicago's superstation WGN covered the Chicago rally and interviewed Chicago demonstrators WBZ News Radio 1030 covered the Boston rally The Associated Press covered the Boston rally The Boston Herald and the Boston Globe covered the Boston rally AKEF rallies were covered in a string of wire reports and articles in newspapers, magazines and on the Web: news.excite.com/news/pr/000509/il-elian-demonstrate news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/cuban/boy/protest/20000510/ht104 news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/cuban/boy/protest/20000510/ht106 www.herald.com:80/content/tue/news/brknews/docs/088925.htm www.marketwatch.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=CorJEWbebDxmTy3vIyw5IB3KT y291CNqTmxm&FQ=%22keep%20elian%20free%22&Title=Headlines%20for%3A%20%22 keep%20elian%20free%22%0A www.marketwatch.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Cory7WbebDxmTy3vIyw5IB3K& FQ=%22keep%20elian%20free%22&Title=Headlines%20for%3A%20%22keep%20elian%20 free%22%0A dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000510/ts/elian_rally_1.html www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/5/10/193510 http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/ap/20000511/us/cuban_boy_court_d73.html http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000511/ts/cuban_boy_court.html www.washingtonpost.com/wp srv/aponline/20000510/aponline141955_000.htm dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20000510/pl/20000510002.html http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/05/10/cuba.boy.01/index.html#1 http://www.latimes.com/wires/20000510/tCB00V0533.html http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_fosters_news/ 20000506_xnfos_keep_elian.shtml http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment051100a.html LA's Spanish langugage 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 http://foxnews.com/national/cubaboy/index.sml http://detnews.com/2000/nation/0005/10/a15-53512.htm http://www.miamiherald.com/content/archive/news/rafters99/docs2/066644.htm DEMONSTRATION PHOTOS: Pittsburgh, Blake Scholl: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~reason/elian Lower-resolution versions of the same pictures are at: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~reason/elian/smaller News photos of rallies: news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/gonzalez/protest/20000510/caps102 news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/cuban/boy/20000510/ax102 news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/cuban/boy/protests/20000510/cx102 news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/cuban/boy/protest/20000510/ht105 news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/cuban/boy/protest/20000510/mh103 news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/cuban/boy/protest/20000510/mh102 news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/cuban/boy/protest/20000510/mh106 news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/cuban/boy/20000510/wx104 http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/ap/20000510/us/cuban_boy_protest_75a.html http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/ap/20000510/us/cuban_boy_protest_nn5.html http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/ap/20000510/us/cuban_boy_protest_cvy.html http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/ap/20000510/us/cuban_boy_protest_hut.html http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/ap/20000510/us/cuban_boy_bhx.html IMPORTANT FAXES: The Honorable Janet Reno Attorney General of the United States (202) 307 - 6777 Doris Meissner, Commissioner Inmigration and Naturalization Service (202) 514 - 3296 Robert Wallis, District Director Inmigration and Naturalization Service (305) 530 - 7978
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