by: Dahr Jamail Afghanistan war resister Travis Bishop has been held largely "incommunicado" in the Northwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility at Fort Lewis, Washington. Bishop, who is being…
Category: RNC
Stop Occupations & Torture for Empire!
New York City: Taking Torture To the Times: Resisters Speak Out Against Child Torture, Demand War Crimes Prosecutions of Bush Regime Resisters with World Can’t Wait gathered in front of the…
Twin Cities Study: Repression at the Republican National Convention
By Thomas Good, from NLN The 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota produced over 800 arrests and numerous complaints of police misconduct: pre-emptive raids, mass arrests, targeting of journalists and…
TAKE ACTION against Political Repression at the DNC and the RNC!
From Elaine Brower and Prachi Noor, members of the World Can’t Wait National Steering Committee: {xtypo_alert}SIGN the petition: Protesters Are Not Criminals!{/xtypo_alert} The police repression of anti-war protest that took place at…
RNC “08: Pit Bulls On Parade
by Alan Goodman If you thought, in the wake of the nightmare of the Bush years, and the euphoria of the Democratic Convention, that the political pendulum in the USA was swinging…
St. Paul: Repression of Political Protest
ONGOING coverage of political repression of protest in St. Paul & Denver SIGN the petition “Protesters Are Not Criminals!” demanding charges by DROPPED against protesters The events of police repression and oppression…
St. Paul: When Protest is Terrorism
When Protest Is Terrorism: RNC 8 Charged as Terrorists Under State Patriot Act By Bruce Nestor 09/04/08 ICH Ramsey County Charges RNC 8 Under State Patriot Act, Alleges Acts of Terrorism In…
Tyranny on Display at the Republican Convention
By Chris Hedges St. Paul is a window into our future. It is a future where, as one protester told me by phone, “people have been pepper-gassed, thrown on the ground by…
Tyranny on Display at the Republican Convention
By Chris Hedges St. Paul is a window into our future. It is a future where, as one protester told me by phone, “people have been pepper-gassed, thrown on the ground by…
Storm Troopers at the RNC
by Ray McGovern Ten days ago, as the nation focused attention on the hurricane nearing the Mississippi delta, another storm was brewing far upstream in St. Paul, Minnesota – a storm far…