Minneapolis

Someone posted on Indymedia yesterday suggesting that activists consider the mainstream media as targets during the DNC and RNC. This is a good idea. According to reports, a group of protesters ran up on Chris Matthews and MSNBC and got their platforms heard before a national audience. That same tactic could work with every news outlet around.

From the Colorado Springs Gazette:

http://www.gazette.com/articles/small_39822___article.html/denver_dnc.ht...

...a group of about 40 Iraq war veterans, clad in their tan camouflage battle dress uniforms, briefly halted traffic on the 16th Street Mall.

"This is Operation First Casualty because the first casualty of war is the truth," said Aaron Hughes, 26, of Chicago.

He said the group wanted to show the people of Denver what it was like to have an "occupying force" in town and what it was like to have a "combat patrol go through their neighborhood."

Even the corporate media seems to be gearing up for direct actions. City Pages just posted 5 Things You Must Have For the Convention, and two of them are gas masks and handkerchiefs covered in vinegar. The guy who wrote it was at WTO, and there's a story about a clash with cops at the bottom.

http://blogs.citypages.com/gop/2008/08/five_musthave_i.php