Brandon Darby, who helped organize the RNC protests, details in an open letter why he became an FBI informant.
He says it wasn’t for money or to avoid prosecution but because he discovered that a few fellow activists were planning to make bombs.
The majority of the activists who went to St. Paul did so with pure [...]
Posts Tagged ‘RNC protests’
RNC protest activist explains why he became FBI informant
Thoughts on RNC protests
The police were deliberately provocative, probably trying to stir things up. You think that $10 million insurance policy the RNC had against police brutality could have been a factor here? Sort of like a Get Out of Lawsuit Free card, I’m thinking.
But some protesters did throw rocks, smash windows, slash tires. Were they all provocateurs? [...]
RNC 8 Charged with “Conspiracy to Riot in Furtherance of Terrorism”
From Twin Cities IndyMedia
Affidavits released by law enforcement which were filed in support of the search warrants used in raids over the weekend, and used to support probable cause for the arrest warrants, are based on paid, confidential informants who infiltrated the RNCWC on behalf of law enforcement.
Yes, we all know that paid informants are [...]
Rage Against the Machine at RNC
Above The Fold has this video, and lots more.
Police gas docile crowd outside the RNC
Police officers used tear gas on a peaceful crowd that was following instructions in St. Paul on Tuesday evening. In an overwhelming show of force, well over a hundred riot police locked down 7th Street between Wabasha and St. Peter, surrounded protesters in the Poor People’s March, media, and bystanders and then proceeded to launch [...]
Report from the Rage Against the Machine attempted concert at RNC
From Danny on the MarxMail listserv. He was there and not happy about what he saw. (If you think you might be offended by Bad Words, then you best not read the whole post.)
As their roadies tuned up and they were all set to go on, however, the fascist police occupation that now rules the Twin [...]
More police thuggery outside RNC
From Twin Cities Indymedia Live Wire
Tue, 09/02/2008 – 19:53 Police Have Alerted Area Hospitals that they are going to begin gassing the crowd.
Tue, 09/02/2008 – 19:45 RATM/Poor Peoples’ March- one protester snatched, organizers ask ppl in black to leave march or move to back
Tue, 09/02/2008 – 19:41 Taser used at RATM/Poor Peoples’ March
Tue, 09/02/2008 – [...]
Republican cop: Twin Cities police “very heavy handed”
sole purpose appears to be to intimidate.
I don’t know who is running this show but it smells like the Feds have been taking lessons from the pre-Olympics Chinese to me.
Protest is dead. Long live global guerillas
John Robb
Very cool demonstration from Minnesota of how police forces have been militarized. In addition to the five fold growth in SWAT forces since the 90’s, there’s been a shift in attitude. All likely due to a misdirection of GWOT [Global War of Terror] Homeland security $$ and thinking towards domestic protest. The side effect: [...]
Amy Goodman speaks about her arrest at RNC
From the San Francisco Chronicle
The Left and the RNC police abuses
How bad is it in the Twin Cities?
Glenn Greenwald
Here’s a woman being pepper-sprayed at close range by a marching legion of police while standing on the side of the road holding a flower.
Yup, she was just standing there holding a flower, and some alleged human of a cop sprayed her in the face with a [...]
Amy Goodman arrested at RNC, Code Pink rally surrounded by riot police
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now arrested, charged with conspiracy to riot.
From Democracy Now
Goodman was arrested while attempting to free two Democracy Now! producers who were being unlawfuly detained. They are Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. Kouddous and Salazar were arrested while they carried out their journalistic duties in covering street demonstrations at the [...]
RNC protests: Wild in the streets, running, running
Cell phone video live from the tear gas zone of the RNC protests.
Real-time reports from the RNC protests
ColdSnaplegal is twittering directly from the streets.
The Uptake has live video (via Qik, which streams live video from a cellphone)
Update: The National Guard is being called in.
It’s getting crazed on the streets at RNC
From the Twin Cities Indymedia LiveWire
Mon, 09/01/2008 – 13:16. ~20 pagans at kellogg/cedar stopping delegate busses. successful blockade at 8th and wall. cops moving in.
Mon, 09/01/2008 – 13:13. windows OF DELEGATE BUS SMASHED ON KELLOGG
Mon, 09/01/2008 – 13:11. New 7th and wall hard blockade. on 94 offramp
Mon, 09/01/2008 – 13:09. Sherrif Bob Fletcher is personally [...]
