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Rebuilding the House George Smashed:
Can America Avoid Fascism?

From The Streets of Little Beirut
Feb. 9, 2009
Glen Yeadon

With a collective sigh of relieve Americans watched as the Bush administration ended and a new president take over. Like the first ray of sunshine breaking through the storm clouds the inauguration brought a renewed hope for a better and more prosperous America. Bush was leaving office with the lowest popularity of any president and perhaps as the most despised man on the planet.

http://socialistworker.org/2008/09/17/direct-action-in-st-paul

Taking direct action in St. Paul

September 17, 2008

STREET BLOCKADES are a common form of nonviolent protest in Europe and Latin America, and over a dozen members of the University of Iowa Antiwar Committee (UIAC), a chapter of the Campus Antiwar Network (CAN), traveled to St. Paul, Minn., on September 1 to implement the tactic during a peace march on the first day of the Republican National Convention.

The results were mixed, but on the whole, moderately successful.

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.html

...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."