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The police assaults on protesters and organizers in Denver and elsewhere suggests a strategic lesson: If you are planning direct action, do ONLY that action and lay low at other times so you cannot be pre-empted

Audio from WSQT Guerrilla Radio 88.1 FM-DC's INSURGENT radio station

http://dc.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/7/strategic_lessons_of_the_dnc.m...

Major police assaults on mass marches, mass arrests at anticapitalist marches, a raid on the Converegence space.

Working democracy is the economic self-government of the workers. By definition it involves the workers in the management decision-making process as part of the daily activity of the workplace.

Working democracy cannot, therefore, be imposed on society by any political party or minority faction of the workers. It cannot be given to the workers by any benevolent dictator, or granted to them by any philanthropic elite. It can only come into existence by the creative, coordinated action of the workers themselves.

Who are the “workers”?

This past weekend, an individual's St. Paul apartment had a warranted search performed.
This individual was told investigators knew that he was an acquaintance of another individual suspected of being involved with the RNC protest. Nothing was taken besides a map of St. Paul, and he was not arrested.
This afternoon, the suspected individual's parents' house was met by 3 officers, and asked the father where the individual was, lived, and worked. There was no warrant, and the father responded that he did not know and asked them to leave.

The RNC is nothing but a media spectacle. No decisions are made there, the delegates aren't creating a platform, they aren't getting the evil work of Empire done in a nuts and bolts way. They are simply setting up a stage and creating a media event so that they can reach a huge number of people simultaneously via satellite, cable, and broadcast TV, and to a lesser extent via the right wing blogs, radio stations, and print press. It's a moment for cementing support and building up Republican identity through televised spectacular politics.

The Circus Before the Circus!

Saturday, August 31st the Welcoming Committee and the Anti-Capitalist Bloc cordially invite you to come get your circus on! Guaranteed to be a better show than the monkeys in business suits featured throughout the RNC...join us for a night of marching band mayhem, all brass shenanigans, DJ Carnie dropping Brazillian beats and a special treat straight from the Minnesota State Fair! (nope, it's not crop art or butter heads...aww.)

What are we doing here? What are YOU doing here? What exactly are we trying to accomplish? Why are we being surveilled, intimidated, harassed, detained? What image have we sent to the world? Have we given the media and the public an image that is accessible, easy to understand, to feel part of? Have we given the police or the state an image that asserts our autonomy by standing FOR Something rather than, or even along-side the idea of being AGAINST Them?

Last night we payed a visit to the Wells Fargo bank on West Lake and attacked it with stones. Two windows were smashed.

We did this because it is a bank, specifically because of this banks involvement with the Democratic Party. We wish to show solidarity to those resisting and those arrested in Denver. We hope lead up actions continue here in the Twin Cities.

Break Things At Night.

-some rebels

There is a very good zine that has been written about Less-Lethal weapons that police and governments use, and how to protect yourself from them.

Also, there is a section on how to protect yourself from tasers.

http://mostlywater.org/excited_delerium_a_protesters_guide_quotlessletha...