One year after the fact, much of the corporate media has unsurprisingly looked to the official RNC narrative of the events of August and September, 2008. As one letter to the Minneapolis Star Tribune rebutted:
Last year’s Republican National Convention may have given the Twin Cities a [supposed] $168 million economic boost (Star Tribune, Sept. [...]
Last November’s RNC 8 rummage sale was a smashing success. Help us smash bogus charges by stopping at the second go-round on Saturday, August 1!
JUNK FOR JUSTICE: RUMMAGE SALE for the RNC 8!
Saturday, August 1, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Walker Community Church
3100 16th Avenue South, Minneapolis
Clean Out Your Closets for the RNC 8 DEFENSE FUND! [...]
Stressing over what to wear to the next RNC 8 Defense Committee meeting (July 26, 3:30pm at Walker Church) or the RNC 8’s next court date (August 19, 9am at the Ramsey County Courthouse)? Worry no more!
Featuring four fabulously fetching designs and a variety of colors and sizes, “Defend the RNC 8″ t-shirts are [...]
Terrorizing Dissent or How Big Brother Hijacked Our City - a film screening and benefit for the RNC8
7/20/2009 | 7:00 PM
Terrorizing dissent is a film documenting the criminalization of dissent at the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul during September 2008. The film features unforgettable historical footage, interviews with the RNC8 protest organizers who’re now [...]
Every first weekend in May, Heart of the Beast Theatre puts on the annual May Day parade and festival, drawing thousands of people to south Minneapolis. This year, the RNC 8 and supporters were invited to lead the parade! Thanks to those who helped make this happen.
The RNC 8 Defense Committee also marched [...]
Defend the RNC 8!
The Struggle for Justice After the RNC
Wednesday, April 29 - 7pm
Coffman Student Union Room 324
University of Minnesota
300 Washington Ave. SE, Minneapolis
The RNC 8 are a group of Twin Cities residents, nearly all in their 20s, who were initially charged with conspiracy to riot in furtherance of terrorism under the Minnesota version of [...]
LITANY OF RESISTANCE for the RNC8 on Monday April 6th, 2009!
Holy Trinity & Saint Anskar Episcopal Church is hosting a Litany of Resistance - A fundraiser to benefit the RNC8 Organizers and recognize the brave work they’ve done in our community.
Starts at 7pm, free and open to everyone. We’ll say a collective Litany (of Resistance!) [...]
Part of the Saturday, March 28 National Day of Solidarity with the RNC 8
This first week of spring, get on your bike in solidarity with the RNC 8! Reclaim the sites of last fall’s RNC raids in the Tour de Fletcher.
Join us on this legal, fun ride visiting and reclaiming the sites of Sheriff Bob [...]
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 forest [...]
(The case of RNC 8 was featured in this week’s issue of the Twin Cities weekly, City Pages. You can read the article at their website here.)
Eight RNC protesters accused of ‘furthering terrorism’ thanks to statute
Officials say the RNC 8 plotted to sabotage Xcel, kidnap delegates
By Matt Snyders
Published on November 11, 2008
Eryn Trimmer sits in [...]
