Do free speech rights include the right to carry a backpack?

KNKX Public Radio | By Paula Wissel

Published January 7, 2013 at 6:04 PM PST

A case involving protesters, U.S. Army Stryker vehicles and backpacks, that’s right backpacks, is being heard in a federal courtroom in Tacoma. The civil rights trial comes nearly six years after the actual protests took place at the Port of Tacoma.

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The "no backpack" directive can be heard on this video from the March 2007 protests at the Port of Tacoma.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w9HrDJEN58

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Paula Wissel

Paula is a former host, reporter and producer who retired from KNKX in 2021. She joined the station in 1989 as All Things Considered host and covered the Law and Justice beat for 15 years. Paula grew up in Idaho and, prior to KNKX, worked in public radio and television in Boise, San Francisco and upstate New York.

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