Monday - Michelle Obama to Speak in St. Paul

Michelle Obama to Campaign in St. Paul on Monday, October 13th
Rally at Macalester College Leonard Center (the brand new monstrous athletic facility)
4 pm doors open at 2:30 pm.

The Leonard Center is on Snelling Avenue a couple blocks south of Grand Avenue in St. Paul

At least a few Macalester students will be there protesting the Obama campaign, specifically his militarism and pro-war in Afghanistan stance. We welcome other twin cities radicals to join us or express your own messages at this event as you see fit.

Here's a link about an action we did at an Obama event last year:
http://media.www.themacweekly.com/media/storage/paper1230/news/2007/10/0...

The mayor of Minneapolis, R.T. Rybak, and an Iraq War veteran touted Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as the best candidate to be the next president of the United States. But five anti-Obama students stole the spotlight Tuesday afternoon at a rally co-sponsored by the Obama campaign and Mac for Obama, a student organization.

As soon as Rybak stepped into the John B. Davis Lecture Hall, where about 80 people
attended the rally, the Obama protesters, led by Brendan Rogers '10, commandeered the stage. They wore colorful suits and dresses, and one protester held a sign that read, "Billionaires for Obama."

In character, Rogers said that he and his billionaire friends supported Obama because his support for the war would make them rich through defense contracts.

Obama's willingness to send troops to Pakistan and his continued support for funding of the Iraq War prove that he is not the anti-war candidate he claims to be, as he claims publicly, according to a pamphlet distributed by Rogers and the four other protesters.

"We believe that Barack Obama is not anti-war," Rogers said. "His record shows that and we believe that he is trying to co-opt the anti-war movement to get elected."