Archive for the ‘RNC 2008’ Category
Friday, May 16th, 2008
The city has been dragging its feet issuing permits for protests at the Republican National Convention. As a result, The Coalition to March on the RNC and Stop the War is heading to federal court today to secure a permit for the mass march on September 1.
This permit is important ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
The MidwestGreenScare blog is reporting that the FBI approached someone in the Twin Cities, offering to pay him or her to attend vegan potlucks and report on them to the FBI. Presumably the Twin Cities police and FBI believe that vegan potlucks are good opportunities for young folks to meet ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
As a part of Comedy Central's Indecision 2008 coverage, Jon Stewart will be broadcasting live from the conventions. They're planning to be in Denver, CO during the Democratic National Convention and St Paul, MN during the Republican National Convention.
I wonder how Stewart will cover the demonstrations.
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Here's some news that may be useful to people planning demonstrations at the 2008 RNC. The Republican National Convention organizers just issued a press release with a list of hotels where Republican delegates will be staying when they visit Saint Paul in the first week of September. With all the ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
The RNC Welcoming Committee just published an explanation of why they are organizing around a blockading strategy. Their goal is to shut down the RNC by clogging the streets, blocking the bridges, locking down intersections, biking around downtown en mass, etc, etc. Why? Well, they have 7 reasons.
From the RNC ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
The RNC Welcoming Committee announced the second pre-RNC national gathering for May 3 in the Twin Cities. They're calling on groups who are planning to come to the RNC protests from outside the Twin Cities to send a representative (or a handful of representatives) to Minnesota for the weekend. Sounds ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Today's the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq and there have been a ton of actions that have stopped business as usual for the day.
Wired had a great post today about San Fransico's Direct Action to Stop the War group. DASW has been using the micro-blogging service called Twitter ...
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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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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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