police brutality

Link to article using all those first hand accounts that you folks kindly provided. Do spread it far and wide. http://tinyurl.com/6fr356

soon this will be over, the majority of the charges
will be dropped because they are fabricated,
fantastical and fabricated. Remember when they raided
Minnehaha because a group of 'anarchists had weapons',
that came from an informer too, real reliable those
doozle brains who get paid to make shit up, real
fantastical shit gets more attention allows them to
request a bigger budget, allows the little rats to get
bigger pieces of booger cheese to munch on.

then we will be back to business as usual, yep, slow,
boring empire and ecocide, consumption and coersive

[Politicians will have to answer for the abuse and detainment of journalists, which spectacularly escalated on Thursday evening. --TCIMC]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - September 4, 2008
Contact: Nancy Doyle Brown, Twin Cities Media Alliance, (612) 374-9380, Jen Howard, Free Press, (202) 265-1490, x22 or (703) 517-6273

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- On Friday morning, local advocates and independent journalists will deliver more than 50,000 petitions to St. Paul City Hall calling on Mayor Chris Coleman and local law enforcement officials to drop all charges against journalists arrested while covering protests outside the Republican National Convention.

WHAT: Delivery of 50,000 letters demanding charges against journalists be dropped
WHEN: Sept. 5, 10 a.m. CT
WHERE: St. Paul City Hall, 15 Kellogg Blvd.
WHO: Local advocates and independent journalists from KFAI Community Radio, National Lawyers Guild, Twin Cities Daily Planet, Twin Cities IndyMedia, Twin Cities Media Alliance and The Uptake.

On Monday, local law enforcement officials arrested Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and two producers from her show, Associated Press photographer Matt Rourke and several independent videographers while they were covering protests outside the Republican National Convention. Other independent journalists have also been pepper-sprayed and even held at gunpoint during "pre-emptive" raids aimed at disrupting protesters.

"The targeting and harassment of journalists that we've seen during the RNC sends the message that the Twin Cities don't value the essential role that journalists play in a democracy," said Nancy Doyle Brown of Twin Cities Media Alliance. "From the pre-convention raids to the ongoing harassment and arrests of journalists, these have been dark days for press freedom in the United States. We're bringing Mayor Coleman more than 50,000 letters from people across the nation demanding that all charges pending against these journalists be dropped."

See the discussion below the photos:

http://colorado.indymedia.org/node/1130

MEDIA RELEASE

For Immediate Release
Contact: Michelle Gross 612-793-1612
Geneva Finn 612-387-0965

PRESS CONFERENCE:
CUAPB, NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD AND OTHERS FILE EMERGENCY MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER

DATE: Sunday, August 31, 2008

TIME: 3:00 p.m.

LOCATION: Hennepin County Government Center Outdoor Plaza
5th Street between 3rd and 4th Ave S, Minneapolis

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

ALL HANDS ON DECK FOR RNC ACTIONS!
During the Republican Convention, CUAPB will play a number of important roles. Along with copwatch as noted above, we'll be involved in jail medical support, jail exit support, documentation of cases through our hotline, court watch/court support, and even assisting homeless people being swept aside in both downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul. It will take a lot of hands and we really need your help. You can plug in by coming to one of the copwatch trainings listed above or coming to our volunteer meeting on Saturday, August 23 at 1:30 p.m. at Walker Church. If you can't make it to the trainings or meeting, please email us back with your contact phone number and how you'd like to be involved.

First event on the list will be the Critical Mass on August 29th. This will be the one year anniversary of the attack on Critical Mass that resulted in many injuries and 19 arrests. It will also be a kind of kick off event for protests against the RNC. As such, we think the MPD may have "special plans" for this event and we need all copwatchers out with us that day.

Copwatch at Critical Mass
Friday, August 29
Meet 4:30 p.m.
Loring Park, Harmon Place side near the dandelion fountain