Lori Purdue, Gael Murphy, Samantha Simpson, Kelly Van Pelt, Leslie Harris and a number of other CODEPINK activists plus Ann Wright were out tonight around 9:30 p.m. dropping a banner off the bridge while the mass arrests were going on. It was getting dark as they were wrapping up. So they came off the bridge [...]
Monday, September 1, 2008
All of y’all out there have been calling and e-mailing to CODEPINK members out here in St. Paul at the RNC, wondering what’s going on with reports of police, riots, tear gas and more on the news. We’re all fine. But we came very close to a crazy scene just about an hour ago, on [...]
Monday, September 1, 2008
Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddou, and Nicole Salazar were among the arrested. Local journalist Jeff Severns Guntzel was teargassed. More to come. Nine are reported to have been arrested for “conspiracy to riot,” and Coldsnap reports that the National Guard moved in on Cedar and Kellogg and threatened mass arrests. NEW: Audio of Amy Goodman’s arrest [...]
Monday, September 1, 2008
Just an hour ago in Downtown St. Paul, at a planned action by the RNC Welcoming Committee, tear gas was used to control the crowd, which appeared to be “gettin’ rowdy” across from the hotel where some of the delegates are staying, according to one witness. Chris, a seeming Republican with the Missile Dick Chicks, [...]
Sunday, August 31, 2008
MINNEAPOLIS — Police searched a CODEPINK van and a CODEPINK supporter without a warrant at 3 a.m. Sunday, when it was parked on the 2000 block of Lyndale Ave. Kai Ostrander, an ally of CODEPINK who had been sitting inside the van to ensure its safety, said that police told him neighbors had called them [...]
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Of course, the GOP’s claiming it’s out of concern for the Gulf Coast, but it also has the fantastic effect of suddenly and rapidly turning attention away from and possibly decreasing the rising police brutality surrounding the conventions, plus puts a bright and shiny face on MccCain’s super-concerned, new-kind-of-republican presidency, but the cancelation of the [...]
Monday, September 1, 2008
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