Protest / Direct Action

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Lloyd Hart discusses the New Fascism, the Military Dictatorship in the U.S and its long partnership with Corporate Interests here in the U.S and around the world as it plays out before our eyes.

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The Ground Noise and the Static:

A Chronicle of the Battle of Saint Paul, RNC 2008

By Mike GW & James K
(NYC Indymedia)

“Please, please, my friends, my dear friends, please, please don’t be diverted by the ground noise and the static”—John McCain, on being interrupted just before he can accept the GOP’s nomination, 9/4/08

In the opening days of September 2008 people from all over the country came together in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul to protest the agenda of the Republican National Convention. And in response, police cracked down, hard. And even before the events had begun police responded to mere calls for protest through strong-arm tactics reminiscent of a police state, including infiltration and spying by state agents against protest organizations and preemptive raids with guns drawn against private protest centers.

EXCLUSIVE: Democrats Pre-Authorized Use of Force at RNC

by Michael Cavlan

Explosive News: Democrats' Collaboration at Republican National Convention Exposed.
Secret meetings authorized excessive use of force.

We know the stories of police abuse, mass arrests, targeting journalists, street
medics, use of rubber bullets, plastic bullets, wooden baton rounds, mace, tear
gas, tasering and other differently lethal methods of crowd control in St Paul and
Minneapolis this week. What is not known is how the local Democratic Party and other