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UPDATE 4:20pm Friday from MN PPEHRC: "At this very moment Rosemary is on the phone [Correction: a conference call is being set up] with GMAC and her lawyer to work out details of a possible real deal that Rosemary could accept. Again we cannot allow ourselves to let our hopes skyrocket high until papers are signed!"

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With a deal allegedly on the table, the tactics have changed on the 7th day of the occupation, with the goal of allowing Rosemary to live in a semi-normal state in her home.  Organizers are still on the watch for police action, however, as they wait to hear further word from GMAC lawyers.  | Photo of email from Elizabeth Glidden about offer from GMAC CEO

"I slept like I didn't think the cops were going to come, and they didn't!" - PPEHRC organizer

Waiting around: "So you guys are all on the same schedule, right?  GMAC's schedule?  They determine our lives and what we do?" - PPEHRC organizer

"The police were trying to push this one out the door and he wouldn't go.  He grabbed the policeman's leg and wouldn't let go of it!" - Rosemary, describing her grandson after the Sheriffs came on Friday

Related: Misplaced Blame at the Heart of Stories Like Rosemary's by Gail Rosenblum/Star Tribune

Most photos below were taken Thursday, August 13.

Thirty to forty brightly-costumed people marched from the State Capitol to the Ramsey County Courthouse on Tuesday, accompanied by Mardi Gras music, kazoos and whistles, and over 60 notice of claim forms with which to put the state on notice of possible civil suits. The Pioneer Press reported that the monetary damages potentially sought by the claims - not including other claims that may be filed, particularly from out-of-town residents, before the deadlines this week - would total $22,542,100.16, well above the city's $10 million RNC insurance policy.

UPDATE: 2/27 12:30 AM: Several actual lawsuits are already in the works - including some announced by St. Paul attorney Ted Dooley at a press conference at 3:00 Thursday at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul. (See media advisory with VIDEO.) Portland Indymedia journalists Wendy Binion and Alex Lilly appeared at the press conference to announce their suits, and another suit will be filed by members of the New York City-based Glass Bead Collective, which helped produce the film Terrorizing Dissent (along with TC-IMC) despite having thousands of dollars of video equipment confiscated (later to be returned) upon arrival in Minneapolis last August. [More coverage: MNDaily: Suits filed | TC Daily Planet | Strib: Seven RNC lawsuits filed]

Below, see photos from the CRASS-organized march Tuesday.