Indymedia

Even after being subjected to the chemical weapons, arrested, and having my camera destroyed and footage stolen at the conclusion of September's G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, I still had two charges that I needed to fight. I was charged with failure to disperse and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors. So I journeyed back to Pittsburgh in hopes of getting the charges completely dismissed.

Upon arrival, I noticed the city was much more peaceful and “normal” without the barricades, military-style check-points, and the ever constant presence of the police photographers snapping pictures of everyone. At about the same time as I had arrived, my attorney was presenting evidence of my Twin Cities Indymedia press passes that I was wearing during my arrest. However, the district attorney chose to take a hard-line position and refused to outright dismiss my charges unless I was “credentialed” by the Secret Service. This was not a qualification that all media personnel could make though four journalists were able to get their charges dismissed this way, one from the Post-Gazette, a local mainstream paper and two from the University of Pittsburgh’s publication, the Pitt News.

Related: TCIMC G20 Coverage Archive | TCIMC Journalist, Other Mediamakers Arrested as Pittsburgh Says No to G20 (with video) | Pittsburgh IMC | G20Media.org

A Weekend of Anti-Capitalist Protests in this week's Socialist WebZine

In this week's Socialist WebZine....

http://socialistwebzine.blogspot.com/

* Socialist Party USA Participates in Wall Street Demonstrations
* Strasbourg in flames as NATO Meets
* G20 Protests Rock London
* Victory in El Salvador
* Reboot America! Lessons from Post-Consumerist Cuba
* Celebrating Paul Robeson

I am so angry and frustrated about what's happening in the Twin Cities this week. Not at the cops - obviously it's horrible what they're doing, but they're just doing what's to be expected of them. If you're surprised by their response to the protests, you've been deluding yourself about the state of civil liberties and freedoms in this country for the last 4 years, at least.

Portland IMC Radio is providing live reports coming from citizen journalists in the streets at RNC

Listen to RNC resistance radio on the following URL's for live updates from the streets!

http://radio.indybay.org:8000/rnc.mp3.m3u

Help movement media cover the RNC in Minneapolis-St.Paul! With the RNC a month away and the propaganda machine of electoral politics shifting into high gear, a strong independent media infrastructure will be critical to a successfully crashed convention. But we at TC-IMC are running on a skeleton crew, and we need your help. Read on to see what's in the works and what we need.

If you're an IMC activist coming to the Twin Cities, or if you're local and want to plug in, get in touch: IMCatRNC@gmail.com.