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Rally Backs Eminent-domain Protester
The Day | October 3, 2005
By ETHAN ROUEN

New London ??The woman imprisoned for refusing to leave a city council meeting last month may have been the reason for a rally held in Fort Trumbull Sunday, but the focus of the event was the planned taking of seven area homes by the city through eminent domain.

About 25 people showed up on the corner of Walbach and Smith streets to show their support for Lauren Ann Canario, a Las Vegas resident and eminent domain opponent who has been in prison for more than two weeks after she was charged with first-degree trespass, refusal to be fingerprinted and interfering with police.

??I think she said more than any of us could have said by not speaking,? said Doug Schwartz, the event organizer and head of the Coalition to Save the Fort Trumbull Neighborhood.

He was one of several speakers who touted Canario's bravery and berated the city for trying to snatch private property for commercial use.

The event began with Dan Gross, a New London resident who wrote a song titled ??Shame Shame Eminent Domain,? asking Fort Trumbull residents to step up to the microphone. None came to the microphone when asked, but two residents, including Richard Bryer, who owns 41-49 Goshen St., attended the event.

Gross and the New London Deliverance Combo, or NLDC for short, performed the song, and a man wearing a ??Death to NLDC? name tag spray painted on the wall behind them, ??Free Lauren Now!?

Most of those with a personal stake in the eminent domain battle have met Canario's protest with indifference, but at the second rally for her in two weeks, people carried signs with her picture on it, and one speaker compared her actions to those of Gandhi.

??Through your efforts, you have awakened the American people to the fact that they don't really own their property,? said state Rep. Steve Mikutel. ??If we lose our property rights, then our freedom is threatened, so we are all New Londoners today.?
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