April 12, 2002

Anti-Sweatshop Protesters Say 'Free-Speech Areas' Violate Their First-Amendment Rights

By ERIC HOOVER

Speech outside "the zone."

Twelve students at Florida State University who were protesting sweatshops were arrested by campus police last month and charged with trespassing after refusing to move their demonstration to one of the university's designated "free-speech areas."

Approximately 30 students, led by United Students Against Sweatshops, had camped out in tents in front of the Westcott Building, the campus's main administrative center, for more than four hours before

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