Don't forget those attacked and arrested during the RNC

[annm4peace]

** Please don't forget us and our struggle. 100's of us face jail time and fines. We were attacked and arrested for marching, rallying, organizing, and not backing down for Democracy. ****

Mainstream news didn't report this press conference.

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/article/2008/11/13/crass-press-conference-looks-rnc-victims-st-paul.html

“Throughout the RNC,” CRASS’s press release stated, “unidentified individuals terrorized hundreds of activists, journalists, medics, legal observers and bystanders. The perpetrators of these brutal assaults were heavily armed, masked and generally dressed in black.”

Referring to the Saint Paul Police officers dressed in riot gear during the RNC, members of CRASS called the behavior of these officers unacceptable, and said the perpetrators should go to court. They also called for the release of the 6,000 hours of RNC surveillance camera video footage that the City of St. Paul has refused to release in response to requests under the MN Data Practices Act.

Mick Kelly was the second speaker. Kelly, from Minneapolis, was one of the organizers of the Sept 1 anti-war march, and carried the lead banner in the September 4 protest. He described police pulling the banner out of his hand and shooting him with rubber bullets, suffering a Frisbee size bruise. “We have a right to voice our opinions,” Kelly said. He insisted that Saint Paul drop all of the RNC related charges.

Jason Johnson, from Iowa, described being grabbed by a mounted police officer. “I was shot twice by taser guns,” Johnson said. “It felt like my entire body started on fire, and then the feeling rushed into my head.” He asked the audience to visit the website www.stoptasers.org. Then he said: “I’m here to request release of the video tapes. It’s just and that’s what needs to happen.”

[annm4peace]

1. story of 8 who face felony charges and acts of terrorism

http://www.citypages.com/2008-11-12/news/eight-rnc-protesters-accused-of-furthering-terrorism-thanks-to-statute



Please sign the petition and foward to others:

http://rnc8.org/category/petitions/

[Sal Minella]

2. A spokesman for the police was on Minn Pub Radio today saying the police perhaps didn't respond as

properly as they should have, but the problem was that "the anarchists" were just so unexpectedly violent that the police may have overreacted in some instances. "The anarchists" were very threatening to these guys in riot gear.

I wonder how many people Amy Goodman has beat to death with her press credentials.

[formercia]

4. "the anarchists"

I suspect the majority of them were undercover police officers acting as agent-provocateurs.

[Sal Minella]

5. Yup.

[Truth2Tell]

3. K&R Thank you for the thread!

I was just wondering the status of this.