The RNC Welcoming Committee’s communication center was raided by authorities Monday afternoon. The communications center served as the base of communications for the legal, medical, food, shelter and protest planning functions. Nine members of that communications team have been arrested on charges of conspiracy to riot.
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Comment posted September 1, 2008 @ 9:26 pm
1_ It is time to call for international solidarity with the repression that we are experiencing here. While the mainstream press is a co-conspirator in the repression and the spin the ruling class is putting on the situation and while many U.S. citizens are too caught up in their consumerism as well as their distress over the current state of the personal lives to even follow these events, hundreds of millions around the world understand the significance of this repression. It is time for them to express their solidarity.
2_I encourage EVERYONE to see the documentary “This is what democracy looks like” regarding the WTO protests in Seattle in 1999. There are two versions of every event and this video shows the view of protestors through video gathered by several dozen people. It is a moving and appalling documentary of police state in action.
3_ On Independence Day July 4, 2007 in a near police riot, 17 young people were arrested while gathered in Riverfront Park in Spokane. All but one of the 17 pled to charges to put the matter behind them. One brave young man, Michale Lyons, went to trial. Ten minutes before the trial began, a police representative came running into the courtroom with video the police had withheld. The video includes law enforcement personnel working under an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) discussing putting their camera down to provoke the protesting youth. Here is the link and the information: http://www.spokane7.com/blogs/hard7/archive.asp...
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Jim Camden of the The Spokesman-Review reported on May 10, 2008 the following:
Verner said police acted professionally and with restraint during the demonstration: “Their actions were commendable on that day and I am sorry that we will not be able to proceed in court.”
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?...
Mary, the police actions were commendable on that day?
What about this from Jim Camden's May 8, 2008 report?:
(quote) …before any confrontation between protesters and police begins, one officer can be heard saying, “I wish a couple of guys would come by and get into it.”
“Want to hold my badge and (unintelligible) for a few minutes?” the other jokes.
“It'd be like old, big time - oh, we got the sound on that (camera). I'd better be quiet,” says the first.
(end quote)
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.a...
Jim Camden of the The Spokesman-Review reported on May 10, 2008 the following:
Verner said police acted professionally and with restraint during the demonstration: “Their actions were commendable on that day and I am sorry that we will not be able to proceed in court.”
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?...
Mary, the police actions were commendable on that day?
What about this from Jim Camden's May 8, 2008 report?:
(quote) …before any confrontation between protesters and police begins, one officer can be heard saying, “I wish a couple of guys would come by and get into it.”
“Want to hold my badge and (unintelligible) for a few minutes?” the other jokes.
“It'd be like old, big time - oh, we got the sound on that (camera). I'd better be quiet,” says the first.
(end quote)
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.a...
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