Archive for February, 2008
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
A few days ago, the AP published a story about the St Paul police requesting more tasers before the RNC protests.
Well, last night the city council approved the police request. Where did the money come from? Summer youth programs. Only minutes before the vote on tasers, a city councilor petitioned ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
The Associated Press is reporting that the St. Paul police are requesting more tasers from the City Council, but says it is not related to protests planned against the Republican National Convention.
From the AP:
St. Paul police ask for more tasers, but say not for RNC protests
The Associated Press - Sunday, ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
Has domain squatting now turned political? Protesters try out a new form of digital civil disobedience.
Protest organizers from the Denver-based group, Recreate '68, are using the web to play some Abbie Hoffman-style pranks on the Democratic Party. They're fed up with the Democrats for going along with the Republicans and ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
A week ago I posted a story about the RNC Welcoming Committee not being allowed to cross the Canadian border. Well, the RNC Welcoming Committee just posted a statement clarifying what happened at the border. In my haste to post something it turns out I made a couple mistakes.
Some important ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
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The Grand Old Party--the Republican party--is extending an open invitation to bloggers to report first-hand on their National Convention in September. Their website says that at the 2004 convention in New York City, they experimented with new media techniques and had good experiences. You need to fill out ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
There were banners held on overpasses in Colorado, creative street theater and posters hung in Boston, an anti-war march in the California that visited both the Hilary Clinton campaign office and the Barack Obama campaign office, and other actions in Grand Rapids and Milwaukee. Check out these pictures:
The march in ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
Next week we'll be interviewing two people from the Neverwood collective in Madison, Wisconsin who are organizing the pnc2rnc bike ride (aka the GrassRoutes Caravan 2008).
What's the pnc2rnc bike ride?
In late August of this year, a group of cyclists will start a two-week ride from Madison, WI to Saint Paul, ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
ROAD Kingston, the group in Kingston, ON who was planning to host the RNC Welcoming Committee on their tour of the Northeast has announced that the RNC Welcoming Committee workshop planned for this evening in Kingston, Ontario was canceled. Apparently the border police, FBI, and ATF barred the American RNC ...
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
Announcing dncdisruption08.org!
The new website is a result of collaboration between Colorado Indymedia and Unconventional Denver, a Denver-based group planning protests against the DNC.
The website already features loads of info on groups currently organizing against the DNC, a closer looks into the inner workings of the convention, resources such as maps ...
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