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Text: Few fireworks at RNC 8 hearing
Defense, prosecution debate process; ‘conspiracy to riot’ trial begins Oct. 25

As a long-anticipated “RNC 8” hearing got underway Tuesday, a dozen lawyers, eight defendants and scores of spectators and media members packed Judge Teresa Warner’s Ramsey County courtroom. Instead of fireworks, however, the assembled crowd got administrative process and book keeping. [Read more]

Text: RNC 8 hearing packs courtroom

With more than 30 supporters in the gallery, and an appearance by Sheriff Bob Fletcher, the mood was quite jovial and relaxed at the beginning. As motion after motion was debated between the two sides, tensions grew. At one point Judge Warner issued a stern reprimand to one of the defense lawyers for talking over the prosecution, An outburst of laughter and talking from some of the defendants during a particularly harsh exchange between the two sides led to Judge Warner reminding the defendants and their counsel that such actions would not be tolerated during the trial, set for October 2010. [Read more]

Text: Consolidated trial for 'RNC8' set to begin Oct. 25

A trial date of Oct. 25 has been set for the defendants who have come to be known as the RNC 8. [Read more]

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Over a year after the 2008 Republican National Convention, the RNC '08 Report continues to produce original research, and compile and archive material relating to the 2008 RNC which is used widely by legal defense teams, journalists, and activists who are working in the aftermath of this and similar events. Your support helps us both keep up and expand our work to challenge over-policing and state injustices at National Special Security Events in the United States, as well as tracking and documenting what is clearly a globalizing pattern of repression of dissent. [Read more]

Text: Middle America protested in St. Paul during 2008 GOP convention
Survey paints surprising profile of activists who marched on St. Paul

Young anarchists who came from out of town to rouse the rabble and smash a few windows. That may be your image of the protesters at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul. In reality, those who took to the streets were mostly Minnesotans and were better educated, more likely to have a job and about the same age as the general population. [Read more]

Text: Choi, Fletcher lead fundraising in Ramsey County races

St. Paul City Attorney John Choi has come out at the top of the fundraising heap so far in the race for Ramsey County attorney. [Read more]

Pittsburgh G-20 Archive: Security costs for G-20 summit come in under budget, mayor says

The G-20 summit of world leaders cost the city of Pittsburgh $12.24 million -- lower than the council-approved budget, and within expected reimbursements by federal and state agencies, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said Monday. [Read more]

Text: RNC Narrows Convention Site List to Three
The 2012 Republican National Convention will be held in either Tampa, Salt Lake City or Phoenix

The Republican National Committee has narrowed its list of potential cities to host the 2012 Republican National Convention down to three final contenders. [Read more]

Text: RNC 8 to Argue First Amendment Motions During February 2nd Hearing
Defense Motions Will Highlight Issues of Illegal Preemptive Raids and Improper Prosecution

During the hearing, the defendants will also argue a number of motions impacting their upcoming trial, including a motion for dismissal of the case because the State violated their First Amendment rights. The State has disclosed a series of documents from the Ramsey County Sheriff's Department suggesting that the police singled out defendants due to their political views and writings. For just one example, the Ramsey County Sheriff's Department opened an investigation on co-defendant Luce Guillen-Givins based on publicly available, Constitutionally protected political writings and a "criminal history" that only included charges later dismissed by the courts. [Read more]

Text: Salt Lake a finalist to host 2012 GOP convention

Salt Lake City has been chosen as one of a few finalists in the competition to host the 2012 Republican National Convention... Salt Lake's representatives were in Washington in November to express the city's interest in competing to host the convention and was one of about a dozen cities invited to bid. Cities such as Tampa, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Antonio, Houston and Indianapolis were believed to be in the running as well. [Read more]

Pittsburgh G-20 Archive: Video: Pittsburgh Hit With Big Legal Bill For G-20 Protests
City Being Asked To Pay Attorneys Fees From Economic Summit

The legal bill for last year's G-20 summit protests in Pittsburgh is starting to come due, and Team 4 has learned that lawyers for protest groups hit the city with a six-figure bill on Friday. Team 4 investigator Jim Parsons reports that the American Civil Liberties Union is asking a federal judge to award attorneys fees in the amount of $127,000 -- and that's just for the work ACLU lawyers did before the G-20 started. [Read more]

Pittsburgh G-20 Archive: Secret Investigation Against G-20 Twitterer Has Minnesota Connection

In September 2008, the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, saw considerable pre-emptive arrests of activists and journalists, including raids on independent media spaces and the Tin Can Comms Collective office, which coordinated a series of Twitter feeds during the surrounding protests relating to activist actions, legal support, and street medic teams. This update from an anarchist collective in New York, who saw members raided and arrested for a similar Tin Can Comms Twitter deployment during the September 2009 G-20 protests in Pittsburgh, PA, was reposted anonymously with the above title on Twin Cities Indymedia’s website. Local charges had been dropped against the Pittsburgh G-20 Twitterers because of an ongoing “national” investigation, presumably in lieu of pending but not yet announced federal charges. [Read more]

Text: Laura Goodman joins race for Ramsey County sheriff
St. Kate's chief will seek DFL backing

Laura Goodman, St. Catherine University director of public safety and a longtime member of the law enforcement community, says she's running for Ramsey County sheriff this year because she thinks "the community is losing faith or trust in the sheriff's office, and I know I can do it better." [Read more]

Text: Letter from the RNC 8 - January 2010

The last time that we wrote, we were only weeks beyond the 2008 RNC, and still figuring out how to navigate our case with a sense of collectivity and integrity. Now, more than a year after the fact, we find ourselves in a sort of limbo. Day to day, we don’t feel the intensity of repression that we did in the weeks surrounding the RNC, yet the trial looms somewhere in the distance and we’re not really free to move on. We return to court on February 2nd, and may come out of the hearing with a trial date certain. [Read more]

Text: Brandon Darby foiled terror attack, but the men convicted of plotting against 2008 Republican Convention win recognition

You’ve probably never heard of Brandon Darby. The former community organizer who saved American lives by undermining a left-wing terrorist plot at the 2008 Republican convention used to be a proud member of the radical left. [Read more]

Text: Bicyclist, Minneapolis to settle on $70K
A proposed settlement with Minneapolis will help pay a bicyclist's legal bills after his arrest at a Critical Mass ride

The city of Minneapolis is poised to pay $70,800 to a bicyclist who said he sustained minor injuries and had his rights violated when he was arrested in an altercation during a Critical Mass ride in 2007. Part of the award will cover $35,000 in legal fees that Gus Ganley ran up to win an acquittal on all three charges brought against him after his arrest during the event, in which hundreds of bikers filled Minneapolis streets. [Read more]

Text: Susan Gaertner says she'll take her gubernatorial campaign to DFL primary

Gaertner, the Ramsey County district attorney, has been trying to appeal to DFLers by saying that her moderate positions on many issues would make her a far more appealing candidate to key suburban voters than most of the others in the crowded field. She also has alienated some DFLers for her role in prosecuting protesters at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. [Read more]

Text: Tuned up: St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman prepares for his second term
Fresh off an easy re-election and casting aside, for now, any aims of being governor, St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman has another four years to put his signature on St. Paul.

While he deems the city's hosting of the Republican National Convention in 2008 a success, the violence and mass arrests that took place in the streets of St. Paul clearly bothered Coleman.

"At the end of the RNC, he spent a lot of time playing the guitar," Mulholland says.
 [Read more]

Text: What will 2010 bring to Minnesota?
Pioneer Press reporters share their predictions

Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher has said he'll seek a fifth term in 2010. So far, two people have said they'll run against him — Assistant St. Paul Police Chief Matt Bostrom and St. Catherine University Director of Public Safety Laura Goodman. [Read more]





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BOSTROM, Matt (Assistant Police Chief of St. Paul), CHOI, John (St. Paul City Attorney), COLEMAN, Christopher B. (St. Paul Mayor), DARBY, Brandon (A.K.A. "CHS 1", paid informant who infiltrated Austin protesters), DARST, Andrew (A.K.A. "Panda", "CRI 2", paid informant who infiltrated RNC Welcoming Committee), DEPALMA, Matthew (Michigan Molotov Case), DOLAN, Tim (Minneapolis Police Chief), FLETCHER, Bob (Ramsey County Sheriff), GAERTNER, Susan (Ramsey County Attorney), GOODMAN, Amy (Democracy Now, arrested Sept 1st), GROSS, Michelle (Communities United Against Police Brutality), HARRINGTON, John (St. Paul Police Chief), HEFFELFINGER, Tom (Former U.S. Attorney) and LUGER, Andy (former Assistant U.S. Attorney), HUGHES, Elliot (alleged torture under Ramsey County Sheriff's care), JOHNSON, Jason (Tased in Mears Park on Day 2), KELLY, Mick (Banner carrier shot with projectile at point blank on Day 4/Arrested for distributing leaflets about RNC march at Obama rally), LANE, Leah (abusive arrest on Day 4 captured on CNN and Fox 9), LUBINSKI, Sharon (Assistant Police Chief of Minneapolis), MAHONEY, Dave (Accused of dropping sandbag onto I-94 freeway on Day 1), MULHOLLAND, Ann (St. Paul Deputy Mayor), NESTOR, Bruce (President of National Lawyers Guild, Minnesota Chapter), PAWLENTY, Tim (Governor of Minnesota), ROWLEY, Coleen (retired FBI 9/11 whistle-blower and peace activist), "RNC 8" Arrestees (Monica BICKING, Robert CZERNIK, Garrett FITZGERALD, Luce Guillen GIVINS, Erik OSELAND, Nathanael SECOR, Max SPECTOR, and Eryn TRIMMER), RYBACK, R.T. (Minneapolis Mayor), SMITH, Keith (17-year-old protester allegedly beaten by police on Day 1), SUNDIN, Jess (March on the RNC organizer, Anti-War Committee), "TEXAS TWO" Arrestees (Bradley Neal CROWDER and David MCKAY), THUNE, Dave (Ward 2 Council Member for St. Paul)

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