Things to See in Boston During DNC Week…

Well, if you want to exercise your right to free speech in Boston, you’ll have to do it here, from this pen:

Hooded protesters kneel on the ground as they demonstrate against being forced to protest inside a fenced-in ‘Free Speech Zone’ near the FleetCenter in Boston Monday, July 26, 2004, before the evening’s start of the Democratic National Convention.

A pedestrian walks past a sign hanging on the front of a restaurant directly across the street from the Fleet Center, the site of the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts July 22, 2004. The restaurant owner who hung the sign protesting the convention and supporting U.S. President George W. Bush has said he will close his restaurant due to security hassles.

A temporary traffic sign located on Interstate 295 in North Attleboro, Mass., on Friday July 16, 2004, some 42 miles southwest of Boston’s FleetCenter, informs motorists of the closure of Interstate 93, which passes within a few hundred yards of the site of the Democratic National Convention. Traffic in Boston during the DNC is expected to be nightmarish, with the closure of some 40 miles of roadways in and around the city, the large influx of people, and the continued construction of the ‘Big Dig.’