EMERGENCY COPWATCH NEEDED TONIGHT AT CRITICAL MASS!

EMERGENCY COPWATCH NEEDED TONIGHT AT CRITICAL MASS!
See the notice below. It would be especially helpful if we can have people with cars who can drive nearby carrying videographers/copwatchers.

Copwatchers meet:
Friday, August 29 (Tonight)
Meet 4:30 p.m.
Loring Park, Harmon Place side near the dandelion fountain
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT AND MEDIA RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY
ARISE! BOOKSTORE

Contact: Michelle Gross 612.703.1612
Jude Ortiz 612.655.6904

EMERGENCY CALL FOR CITIZENS OF THE TWIN CITIES TO COME OUT ON BIKES TODAY AT 5:30 PM AT LORING PARK TO DEFEND THE RIGHT OF FREE ASSOCIATION AND PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY

Call for the people of Minneapolis-St. Paul to come out to tonight’s Critical Mass bike ride. Minneapolis police plan mass arrest of bike riders.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (August 29, 2008) – Emergency call out for citizens of the Twin Cities to come to Berger Fountain at Loring Park in downtown Minneapolis at 5:30 pm to ride with Critical Mass and defend the right to assemble. First Amendment rights are being suspended by the Minneapolis Police Department, which has promised to “clean up the streets” of political protestors in the lead up to the Republican National Convention. Credible information has been received that a mass arrest is expected to take place at tonight’s monthly Critical Mass group bike ride.

Any mass arrest would continue a pattern of intimidation and preemptive raids on potential protestors of next week’s convention.

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Communities United Against Police Brutality
3100 16th Avenue S
Minneapolis, MN 55407
Hotline 612-874-STOP (7867)
Meetings: Every Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at Walker Church, 3104 16th Avenue South
http://www.CUAPB.org