Today was the fourth day of the RNC 8 hearings. Most of the day was spent questioning Sergeant Jay Maher of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Department Special Investigations Unit, who conducted extensive surveillance leading up to and following the RNC, worked with the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Department informants and supervised some of the raids. Chris [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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! [...]
From our allies in the Community RNC Arrestee Support Structure:
You are cordially invited to Sheriff Bob Fletcher’s post-RNC “Dollars for Documents” graft party!
A celebration of the continuing corruption and brutality that has defined Bob’s tenure, we will honor not only Bob but his wonderful co-conspirators, including - but certainly not limited to - Chris Coleman, [...]
Repression and Resistance, Then and Now
from the MOVE 9 to the RNC 8
Lecture and Discussion with
Ramona Africa of the MOVE Organization
Sunday, April 19, 2009
2:00 p.m.
Hallie Q Brown/Martin Luther King Community Center
270 N Kent Street, St. Paul
Ramona Africa is international spokesperson for the MOVE organization, a revolutionary back-to-nature organization whose main belief is in life. [...]
As the credibility of the FBI’s information plummets, the RNC 8 Defense Committee invites you to an action on Friday, March 27:
CALL TO ACTION:
SERENADE SUSAN GAERTNER, the prosecuting attorney in the case against the RNC8! On March 27th we’re going to have a little meeting with Susan Gaertner. We’re going to present her with the huge [...]
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 [...]
The street battles that took place in St. Paul, Minnesota over the course of the Republican National Convention are now a memory–battles hard won by those brave protesters who defied the thousands of police and National Guard in place throughout the Twin Cities to guard what is most precious to those in power: law and [...]
