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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 speech and assembly unlike [...]
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 also [...]
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. They are [...]
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 uneasy relationship [...]
Twin Cities Indymedia has continuing breaking news on the increasing number of raids by police in advance of the RNC. There have been multiple police raids and arrests for unexplained, probably bogus reasons and the RNC hasn’t even started yet.
Food Not Bombs raided? C’mon, they’re peaceful granola eaters. Another raid was on an anarchist meeting. [...]
