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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 [...] 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 [...] Cell phone video live from the tear gas zone of 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. 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 [...] Abraham Lincoln Brigade Memorial. San Francisco. Detail from the memorial. it was dedicated on March 30, 2008 and is the first such memorial in the US. (View much more of it full-sized on Flickr.) I took this photo at the 2004 RNC protest march in NYC. At least NYPD mostly respected freedom of [...] Oh yeah, the worms in the permaculture on the bus might have little bitty machine guns and be terrorists. So let’s dump all the people and animals on the highway and tow the bus away for a bogus “inspection”. Not only is the Ramsey County Sheriff a thug deliberately trying to intimidate political protesters, it’s [...] Police grabbing people at random off the streets, as reported happening yesterday in Minneapolis, is not a new tactic. It happened at the FTAA protests in Miami in 2003 too, and we blogged it then. PS. In the process of finding that post from 2003, I realized that images and photos from 2002-2005 weren’t online. [...] The raids were ordered by Bob Fletcher, sheriff of a St. Paul suburb. He probably didn’t have jurisdiction or legal power for some it and some St. Paul council members are not happy. From FireDogLake. Bob Fletcher is a Republican from the formerly lily-white St. Paul suburb of Maplewood, which has for decades had an [...] |  | ||||
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