I-Witness Video - subpoenaed, two times.

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Subject: We've been subpoenaed, two times.

Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:06:37 -0400 (EDT)

From: I-Witness Video

Reply-To: iwitness@iwitnessvideo.info

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Please forward far and wide.



Friends,



I-Witness Video has been served with two subpoenas by lawyers from the

City of New York in connection with the 2004 Republican National

Convention. The City has demanded every piece of paper, electronic file,

and videotape related to the protests - even our copies of the tapes shot

by their own NYPD!



We're fighting this gross abuse of subpoena power. Yesterday our lawyers

at Schulte Roth & Zabel moved to quash both subpoenas.



See the website for our statement.

http://iwitnessvideo.info/blog/index.html



This is a link to today's New York Times article about the subpoenas.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/nyregion/20convention.html



We need your support to continue this important work. Let us know if you

are interested in helping to document the presidential conventions in

Denver and Minneapolis this summer. And if you can make a financial

contribution at iwitnessvideo.info/contribute/index.html, it would be

enormously useful at this time, to help us fight these subpoenas, and to

continue our work opposing police misconduct.



In solidarity,

Eileen Clancy



e-mail: iwitness@iwitnessvideo.info

website: iwitnessvideo.info



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The New York Times



June 20, 2008
City Subpoenas for Access to Tapes of 2004 Protests
By COLIN MOYNIHAN




Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company









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