A cross-post from Feministing.com. The Shock and Awe Campaign at the St. Paul RNC continues unabated, and eyewitness reports are flooding all the technology I got, including good, old-fashioned, hang-out-in the-coffeeshop-and-say-hi-to-people v.1.0. Eyewitnesses at the Mears Park gathering of yesterday afternoon, at which tear gas, “impact rounds” and physical threats ended in the arrests of [...]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Two to three vanloads of riot cops with doors open are reported to be circling the Ramsey County Jail vigil, where people have congregated to protest the detainees and the crackdown on freedom of speech. Police on the scene are also taking photographs of volunteers (which has been standard at actions here at the RNC [...]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
The Stimulator’s here at the RNC editing video like a madman. Yesterday he had two camera people arrested. Here’s an update he just sent out with a link to video: http://submedia.tv/stimulator/2008/09/01/rnc-dispatch-3/ On the arrests. The two cameramen arrested are Joseph La Sac and Lambert Rochfort of Pepperspray Productions in Seattle. Both were picked up at [...]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Legal Observer Gerry sent this report along. Our observation crew was not downtown so I can’t comment on what happened there. But we were at the intersection of Shepard Rd and Chestnut St.. Myself and one other observer, Laura stopped here because there were six young men that looked like they were in their early [...]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
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