PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY National Call for Action to Stop Police Brutality at the Republian National Convention! Support 300 people arrested in Saint Paul! Demand an end to illegal detention and brutality in Ramsey County Jail! 9/3/08, St. Paul - Approximately 300 people have been arrested for participating in demonstrations since the beginning of the Republican National Convention. The majority of [...]
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Moments ago, staffers Desiree Fairooz of Washington, DC and Nancy Mancias of the Bay Area, CA were taken into custody along with volunteers Toby Blone (53) of El Cerrito, CA, and Kit Simeon (50) of Quilcene, CA. Witnesses report the four were dancing and singing. After breaking out in one dance, two attempted to crawl under [...]
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
I did want to post a link to this story, which alleges conspiracy to commit “kidnapping” among the “self-proclaimed anarchists.” Such jokes and topics, when they come from elected officials, are of course not valid items to be listed on a warrant application.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
ColdSnap Legal Collective released a statement yesterday outlining the legal grievances regarding the arrests and violence here in the Twin Cities. “With no provocation,” the release states, police have indiscriminately used rubber bullets, concussion grenades, and chemical irritants to disperse crowds and incapacitate protesters. Police appear to be specifically targeting videographers documenting these police abuses. By [...]
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Two links from former Punk Planet compatriot Jeff Severns Guntzel this a.m., with details as to the official and unofficial stories of last night: Day Two Diary, Part One Day Two Diary, Part Two
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
People are amassing and one arrest has already taken place. Snipers overhead and helicopters and riot cops by the hundreds in full gear on all sides make for a terrifying experience; not helped by the chant” Stop the war / arm the poor.” It’s absolutely not at all funny how many cops are literally training [...]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
A cross-post from Feministing.com. The Shock and Awe Campaign at the St. Paul RNC continues unabated, and eyewitness reports are flooding all the technology I got, including good, old-fashioned, hang-out-in the-coffeeshop-and-say-hi-to-people v.1.0. Eyewitnesses at the Mears Park gathering of yesterday afternoon, at which tear gas, “impact rounds” and physical threats ended in the arrests of at [...]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Two to three vanloads of riot cops with doors open are reported to be circling the Ramsey County Jail vigil, where people have congregated to protest the detainees and the crackdown on freedom of speech. Police on the scene are also taking photographs of volunteers (which has been standard at actions here at the RNC [...]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
The Stimulator’s here at the RNC editing video like a madman. Yesterday he had two camera people arrested. Here’s an update he just sent out with a link to video: http://submedia.tv/stimulator/2008/09/01/rnc-dispatch-3/ On the arrests. The two cameramen arrested are Joseph La Sac and Lambert Rochfort of Pepperspray Productions in Seattle. Both were picked up at different [...]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Legal Observer Gerry sent this report along. Our observation crew was not downtown so I can’t comment on what happened there. But we were at the intersection of Shepard Rd and Chestnut St.. Myself and one other observer, Laura stopped here because there were six young men that looked like they were in their early [...]
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
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