22 Jun 2005

Protesting

Love Park“A Philadelphia police officer died of an apparent heart attack Tuesday after a scuffle with protesters outside BIO 2005, the Biotechnology Industry Organization’s annual trade show and convention being held this year in [Philadelphia].”

Biotech protesters and disgruntled skateboarders appeared in troves, albeit by coincidence, at Philly’s Love Park, each to demonstrate for their own respective causes. The biotechnology protesters had come to get their views out amidst BIO 2005, a huge convention for the biotech industry. The skateboarders had come to take back Love Park, which is to skateboarding as Jerusalem is to Palestinians.

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