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News Source: The Daily Cardinal
| about 1 year ago
In this presidential horse race, it seems like the last thing economic justice and social activists would want to do is bring more publicity to the nomination of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for president. Yet, this week, over 10,000 protestors at the...
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News Source: Denver Post
| about 1 year ago
Minn. — One key police tactic — infiltrate the anarchists — often meets face-to-face a key tactic of anarchists — expose the infiltrators...A source close to the RNC Welcoming Committee, an anarchist group, said members take loads of pictures...
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News Source: Star Tribune
| about 1 year ago
Paul heads into one last day of convention hoopla -- and one final day of protests -- state civil liberties leaders have accused St. Minnesota. "The phrase is 'spoiling for a fight.'" But Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner did not think police...
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News Source: The New York Observer
| about 1 year ago
In this topsy-turvy era of handheld digital cameras and 24-7 Web logs, who really knows? Today, the RNC's subcommittee on law enforcement and public safety affairs sent out an advisory to journalists noting that while the police in St. Paul support...
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News Source: Bradenton Herald
| about 1 year ago
Most of the arrests, and some sporadic violence, happened Monday. Police blamed a group of about 200 who broke car and store windows, attacked delegates, tried to block intersections, turned over garbage cans and slashed car tires...Paul Downtown...
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News Source: Gawker
| about 1 year ago
Keith Olbermann was reportedly not thrilled about attending the Republican National Convention...When the RNC started, Keith was in New York still, covering Gustav, their main story all day Monday...But Gustav passed and today it was made official :...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
With music blaring and a giant American flag in the background, hundreds of Republican National Convention delegates worked to prepare supply kits for those affected by Hurricane Gustav...Target Corporation, which donated the items, set up an...
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News Source: Star Tribune
| about 1 year ago
Twenty-two misdemeanor arraignments and first-appearances for men and women arrested Monday during the Republican National Convention were handled this morning in Ramsey County District Court. Arraignments on felony cases were scheduled to begin at 1:...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
Funk The War, a student activist group that seeks to end the war in Iraq through music and dancing, took to the streets Monday at the Republican National Convention in St Paul. "Funk the War has spread like a fluorescent colored disco fungus across...
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News Source: Truthdig
| about 1 year ago
Beginning Saturday with a guns-drawn assault on a protester meeting space and continuing through the weekend with raids on houses of known-activists in St. Paul, Twin Cities police have arrested over 300 anti-RNC demonstrators—120 of them felonies...