Local Newswire

August 31, 2008

Where is the Color in the Twin Cities?: Looking for reasons why the Great Battle is so white…with thanks to Betita Martinez

Lisa Albrecht

Just got a call from an Indy reporter at the Seeds of Peace kitchen, who says there has been no raid.
Police paraded around the Seeds of Peace kitchen several times, then parked down the block, making people think a raid was imminent. Then a black SUV pulled up, circled around. In the last half hour the police seem to have left the Seeds of peace kitchen.

If you are in a jam or have some breaking news call 914.945.0815 and you can record a 4 minute voice mail that goes to Pacifica Station producers at WBAI.

If someone answers just say "Hang Up, I need to be recorded"

then call back. You can call as many times as you need.

WSQT Guerrilla Radio(88.1 FM-pirate in DC) interviews Adam Eidinger about police "night of terror" in Twin Cities:

http://dc.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/10/rnc_raids_adam_wsqt.mp3

Adam Eidinger is a well known activist in DC, reporting from Twin Cities for the duration.
He discusses the raids and states that the raids have provoked a groundswell of anger
in a community far more liberal than the GOP guessed.

He also discusses rumors about delaying the GOP Convention by just one day,
from Monday until Tuesday, with Hurricane Gustav as the excuse. If this happens, it will

Check out http://theuptake.org/ for the map

-----Cross-posted from www.rhubarbarism.com------------

A van full of activists from Texas was pulled over on Lake st. and 11th ave. in Minneapolis by police with drawn shotguns on Saturday afternoon.

Police ordered them out of the van at gunpoint, where they were handcuffed and searched on the busy sidewalk across the street from a dollar store, said Estaban, one of the detained activists. They didn't search the van.

They were released after between 15 to 20 minutes, an observer said.

Here's an article from one of AZ's major news media services about Phoenix, Mesa, and Tucson police coming to assist St Paul PD for the RNC. It says that Phoenix police are looking at this as a possible 'learning experience' - this is especially interesting since PHX put in a bid for 2012 DNC. Lets plan that there won't be one.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/08/28/20080828mr-convention0...

I'm from the area - sorry to hear our trigger happy police are headed that way. Hope everyone stays safe.

Sarah Palin is certainly not the 'naive and innocent' Alaskan village mayor as many in corporate media claim her to be. She is very much like John "Big Driller" McCain in many ways, savvy with the corporate sponsors and willing to sell workers and the ecosystem down the river to satisfy the interests of big oil and mining corporations.

by Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008 at 12:42 PM

When John McCain says, "Drill NOW! Drill HERE! DRILL EVERYWHERE! VROOM! VROOM!" it seems that Ms. Sarah Palin is the perfect woman for this job..