Credit for the photo goes to Jim Gehrz at the Star Tribune.
Thanks for "allowing" us to borrow this sure to be award winning image.
Thanks for "allowing" us to borrow this sure to be award winning image.
I would encourage anyone reading this to check out tomorrow's Democracy Now, when we'll see/hear the brutal arrest of 2 DN producers and Amy Goodman.
Here also is some footage from Minnesota Public Radio of a homeowner who'se duplex was raided because he had the press staying in his spare apartment. Want to read more editorial? Just check out the comments below the MPR piece. My favorite, "I'm not paying taxes anymore."
This jibes pretty well with what I've been hearing from my friend on the ground at the RNC. Yesterday scores of arrests, he said. Today, StarTribune reports the Guard has been called in to quell some protesters who have been breaking windows and causing a disturbance.
Gina Berglund, a National Lawyers Guild member and attorney taking up the charge of advocating for the protesters has been quoted in various sources as saying, "we think it's unconscionable. We think it's out of control," and the police action was "completely out of proportion." "A lot of people in the activist community are really on pins and needles about who's next," she said in the Kansas City Star.
In an eerie flashback to the '68 DNC convention and the "Chicago 10" legacy, many are being arrested on charges of conspiracy to start a riot.
Who is drawing such ire of local and national law enforcement? Within this fracas have been reported the following:
Who is drawing such ire of local and national law enforcement? Within this fracas have been reported the following:
- A bicycle with a papier-mâché donkey head and tail attached, and another with an elephant head and body attached to it that notes the level of the national debt.
- A 67 year old Minneapolis man enclosed in chicken wire in what he calls his own free speech pen,
- Parents of a fallen soldier walking with a flag-draped cardboard coffin and a very real, very empty pair of boots and a uniform,
- Some Rage Against the Machine fans who plan to attend their concert in Saint Paul on Wednesday night if they don't get arrested first.
- and others...thousands of 'em...
