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I got an email about this today, apparently they're a bit worried about massive protests at the upcoming G-8 summit.

Six coastal Georgia counties affected by the G-8 summit on Sea Island next month will be under a state of emergency order beginning Monday.
No, Gov. Sonny Perdue, who issued the order, doesn't know something about the weather coastal residents don't. And I-16 won't automatically become one-way west, as it does in hurricane evacuations.
Citing, among other reasons, the "potential danger to the persons and property of this state from unlawful assemblages, threats of violence and otherwise," the executive order creates a unified public safety command for the summit.

SaveOurCivilLiberties.org
The've got some other interesting and important stories on their site too. Also some actions to be taken, like this one.

Public Citizen | Faxing System: "Join outraged members of the community, people of faith, representatives of civil liberties, global justice and labor organizations in demanding that State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle and Mayors Manny Diaz and Alex Penelas drop the charges against the remaining 50 people facing illegitimate charges stemming from the Miami demonstrations against the Free Trade Areas of the Americas (FTAA) in November 2003.
Of the 283 people arrested, NOT ONE has been convicted and dozens have been forced to take day after day off from work or school and to pay for transportation to attend court only to have their cases dismissed or thrown out! Nearly six months after brutal arrests and harsh jail time, with 50 cases left and not a single conviction, it's time to drop the rest of these bogus charges."

I just talked to someone the other day about the protests in Miami, where it did, of course turn very ugly(thanks again officers). I've seen some of the pictures and those rubber bullets really mess people up. So anybody want to go to Sea Island?