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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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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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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
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The RNC welcoming committee released this video trailer about the RNC protests in Saint Paul. Check it out:
Here are some highlights starting from the beginning of the vid:
Zapatista coffee and homemade zines make for a good morning. Our protagonist rolls out of bed and hits the alarm, which is ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
On March 1, 2008 there's a regional meeting in Minnesota about the upcoming protests in St Paul. Here's an email from the unconventional action email list:
On March 1st anti-authoritarians will gather @ the Belfry community center in Minneapolis, MN for the first Unconventional Action in Minnesota.
If you're planning on ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
The Associated Press is reporting that the St Paul-based Coalition to March on the RNC and Stop the War will receive a permit for a large demonstration on September 1, 2008. The group has already been holding regular demonstrations and marches along their planned route with the hopes that a ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
The RNC Welcoming Committee has announced that they'll be going on tour of the country to rouse the rabble and get people psyched for the demonstrations in St. Paul and Denver.
Here's a snapshot of their current tour dates:
1/23/2008 West Lafayette, IN
1/24/2008 Bloomington, IN
1/25/2008 Columbus, OH
1/26-27/2008 Frederick, MD
1/28-29/2008 ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
On August 24-28, 2008 the Democrats will hold their convention in Denver, CO and shortly afterwards the Republican Convention will take place in St. Paul, MN from September 1 to the 4th. An extensive organizing effort is already underway for mass protests at this year's Republican and Democratic National Conventions. ...
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