–please share with student groups in your community!– Eight organizers from Minnesota are being tried for “conspiracy to incite a riot” and “conspiracy to destroy property.” Charged as “terrorists” by the state of Minnesota for participating in logistical organizing aimed at supporting resistance to the Republican National Convention (RNC), the RNC 8 face over a [...]
The Twin Cities-based Animal Rights Coalition brought Will Potter – independent journalist, Green Scare watchdog and author of GreenIsTheNewRed.com – to Minneapolis and St. Paul this week. Some of the RNC 8 and Friends of the RNC 8 sat down with Will before his public talk at the University of Minnesota. In this clip (13:44), [...]
Representatives of the RNC 8 will appear at today’s CRASS (Community RNC Arrestee Support Structure) press conference at Room 125 of the State Capitol in St. Paul at 3:30pm to talk about the recently added charges and the context of their case amongst the others going to trial this week. Afterwards, at 4:30 on West [...]
We have a great new logo, drawn by local artist Ricardo Levins Morales of Northland Poster Collective! (can you figure out who’s who?) Feel free to use this and the rest of our graphics as you see fit, and look for Ricardo’s drawing around town! Download: 137K JPG or 1.8MB photoshop file (for printing)
Now you can get a Solidarity Satchel directly from us! For a minimum donation of $40 locally or $50 to have it shipped*, you get… The stylish black messenger bag with a cell phone holder and cross stabilization strap, packed with… Free radical literature and old-timey zines and papers… a bag or two of special [...]
Feeding people, activism and arrests connect RNC 8′s Nathanael Secor and Robert Czernik Czernik, whose intimates call him “Tumbleweed,” tells this story: In the spring of 1998, he was arrested at a protest in Ohio and spent a week in a county jail. During the week he spent there, he told his cellmate about his [...]
The Anti-Racist Action Network’s Statement of Solidarity with those Facing Legal Repression in Connection with the Republican National Convention The Anti-Racist Action Network stands in full solidarity with all those arrested at the RNC protests, regardless of the state allegations against them. In particular, we wish to make our support known for the RNC 8 [...]
Phone-in against Phony charges! RNC Arrestees Call-In Day of Action Monday October 13th, 2008 (9am- 5pm) 6 of the RNC 8 are attending court on Monday Oct 13th. In solidarity with them and the 800+ other RNC arrestees, we are asking folks to take 5 minutes to call Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner’s office, St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and [...]
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Mordecai Specktor is the father of Max Specktor, one of the RNC 8. He is the editor of the American Jewish World, in which this article first appeared. It was reprinted at MinnPost.com. First they came for the anarchists… By Mordecai Specktor | My son Max was arraigned at the Ramsey County Law Enforcement Center on Wednesday, Sept. [...]