After we learned earlier this month that the RNC 8 will face a single trial, we also learned that Judge Teresa Warner has denied Max Specktor’s motion to suppress evidence obtained in a warrantless search on September 1, 2008. Max and his attorney Larry Leventhal had argued the motion in a September 29 hearing, a [...]
DEFEND ALL TARGETS OF STATE REPRESSION: SOLIDARITY TO CARRIE FELDMAN AND SCOTT DEMUTH
from the RNC 8 Defense Committee (www.rnc8.org)
Since the RNC 8 were first arrested and charged with terrorism last year, we have understood that they are not the first nor the last to be targeted by overzealous authorities for their effective political organizing. Furthermore, [...]
The newest RNC documentary, produced by the Chicago Independent Media Center, features RNC 8 co-defendants Rob Czernik, Garrett Fitzgerald and Luce Guillen-Givins; RNC 8 attorney Robert Kolstad; volunteers/arrestees from the Community RNC Arrestee Support Structure (CRASS), and others impacted by the convention.
One year after the 2008 Republican National Convention, the Chicago Independent Media Center takes [...]
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. [...]
One Year Later - Call-in to Susan Gaertner September 1st
651-266-3222 | Fax: 651-266-3010 | RCA@co.ramsey.mn.us
On September 1, 2008, thousands took to the streets of St. Paul to challenge the Republican National Convention. One year later, the RNC 8 are still facing serious legal repercussions because of their organizing. Authorities typically charge a few activists who take [...]
August 29, 2009 will be the one-year anniversary of the first police raid directed at the RNC 8. To commemorate the resistance to state repression and the challenge to the RNC’s invasion of the Twin Cities, as well as to remember the history of radical organizing in St. Paul that outlives any one police state [...]
The RNC 8 have finally been given their next court date: Wednesday, August 19 at 9am in room 1040 of the Ramsey County Courthouse in St. Paul. Due to a change in the Judge’s schedule, the hearing has been postponed. Therefore, the planned rally is also no longer going forward on August 19th.
The scheduling hearing will be [...]
Common Action Seattle Presents:
A FILM SCREENING AND BENEFIT FOR THE RNC 8
*including a door prize raffle bonanza*
with Luce Guillen-Givins
7:30pm, Monday, August 3rd
Cascade People’s Center
309 Pontius Ave N. Seattle, WA 98109
$0-$20.00 (please pay what you can; no one turned away)
Common Action Seattle invites you to a screening of “Terrorizing Dissent,” a film documenting the [...]
Conventional Wisdom: Reflections on the 2008 RNC Protests
This new documentary examines protests at the 2008 Republican National Convention, largely focusing on law enforcement’s reaction to and treatment of protestors and organizers during the Convention. Drawing upon interviews from activists, lawyers, street medics, and law enforcement, among others, Conventional Wisdom is a reflection on what happened [...]
(The following article appeared in Revolution newspaper this week.)
by Leslie Rose
Introduction to the Series:
A very important case is unfolding in Minnesota—eight people are being singled out by the government for their role in the political protests at the 2008 Republican National Convention (RNC).
At the September ’08 RNC in St. Paul, war criminal John McCain and [...]
