Progressive movements throughout the country are likely to be impacted by the hundreds of arrests in Philadelphia last week.
Street protests are being wrongly equated with terrorism, they say.
As of Tuesday evening, a team of attorneys representing prisoners estimated that about 307 of the 470 protesters remained behind bars. Some protesters stripped off their clothes to avoid identification. Numerous accounts of police brutality continue to emerge from those arrested and released. Nearly 150 prisoners have been on a hunger strike since their arrest, and the remainder planned to join them beginning Wednesday, Aug. 9. Thousands of activists took to city streets during the week of July 30.