After reading the Confluence() issue, media activists approached Freepress.net and encouraged them to take the correct steps in recognizing that police brutality in St. Louis is an important issue.

Freepress.net agreed to announce in the opening plenary that they would allow a seperate table for the Coalition Against Police Crimes and Repressions and there would be a petition for conference goers to sign. While we wish that Freepress would have mailed the letter, we are grateful that they took these steps. Now the over 2,000 people who are here at this conference are slightly more aware of the evil power structures of St. Louis. This is grassroots work at it's best!