RNC 8 National Call-In Days of Action: Tuesday, Dec 16 (9-5) and Wednesday, Dec 17 (8-1) – all Central Time As part of our pressure campaign against Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner we are calling attention to her 2010 run for governor of Minnesota on the Democratic ticket. She’s already starting to fundraise in the [...]

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 [...]

What: A fundraiser for RNC arrestees, including the RNC 8! When: Saturday, November 22nd, 10pm Where: Bedlam Theatre, 1501 S. 6th St., Minneapolis Who: YOU + The Usual Suspects, Toki Wright, Jason Anxious, and the Nancy Drew Crew 18+, $5-10 suggested donation. The Bedlam Theatre is located next to the Cedar-Riverside light rail station on [...]

(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, [...]

print A Letter from the RNC 8 Dear Friends, Family, and Comrades: We are the RNC 8: individuals targeted because of our political beliefs and work organizing for protests at the 2008 Republican National Convention, in what appears to be the first use of Minnesota’s version of the US Patriot Act. The 8 of us [...]