Conspiracy Tour 2010 Slinking Into Your Town This Summer! RNC 8, July 3rd, 2010
The State of Minnesota alleges that organizing a convergence space for protesters to have meetings, eat free meals, and check teh interwebs (on computers that an FBI informant helpfully set up!) makes the RNC 8 guilty of conspiracy. The Federal government claims that Scott DeMuth’s writings and associations suggest that he is an anarchist and therefore a domestic terrorist, making him guilty of conspiracy under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. We say organizing resistance to state repression isn’t conspiracy. It’s survival. We say living our lives according to our principles isn’t terrorism. It’s our right. We say we’ll continue organizing no matter how much the state tries to destroy us and our communities. [Read more]
Free dinner on May 18th with the RNC 8 RNC 8, May 18th, 2010
Come join the RNC 8 and friends for a free dinner in May! After 4 long days of hearings over the past few weeks, we’ll have plenty of updates to share on the case. We’ll also have plenty of yummy food to share including vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options! [Read more]
Court Report and Today's Schedule Courtwatch Working Group, Community RNC Arrestee Support Structure (CRASS), May 14th, 2010 Today we are back in Courtroom 1080. We will be here from 9 AM to about 4:30. Come anytime. As of yesterday, the security infrastructure has downgraded us to a mere curiosity. The Sheriff's Department is evidently not too worried about "violent anarchists" in the building. They declined to provide a single uniformed officer to watch over us. With all the budget cut-backs, they need those officers to mind prisoners who pose a more immediate threat to public safety. A lone plain-clothes deputy sat at the back of the courtroom -- a buddy of Jay Maher, who was in uniform and on the witness stand. (I suppose that counts as 2 deputies). I imagine Maher was glad to see a friendly face in the audience. [Read more]
Court Report and Schedule for this week Hearings will be held on Thursday May 13th and Friday May 14th from 9 AM to 5 PM with a break for lunch Courtwatch Working Group, Community RNC Arrestee Support Structure (CRASS), May 12th, 2010 We are listening to undercover informants testify about whether they ever heard the defendants agree to injure people or damage property. So far, an undercover sheriff's deputy has testified that she followed them around for a year and she's got nothing. We heard some funny stories though -- like the time the three informants went to case a building for a banner drop. There was no one else with them -- it was just the government agents conspiring to commit illegal acts! [...] Hearings will be held on Thursday May 13th and Friday May 14th from 9 AM to 5 PM with a break for lunch. [Read more]
Courtwatch Schedule: John Slavin, RNC 8 Community RNC Arrestee Support Structure (CRASS), April 13th, 2010
Today's trial call for out-of-town defendant John Slavin has been canceled. There will be a hearing to change his plea on April 13th at 9 AM at the Ramsey County Courthouse. There will be Pre-trial hearings for the RNC 8 on May 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and (the following week) May 13th and 14th. [Read more]
RNC 8 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison "The Criminalization of Dissent-In Defense of the RNC 8" RNC 8, April 5th, 2010
Garret Fitzgerald and Max Specktor of the RNC 8 will be speaking on the criminalization of dissent in the midwest during the 2008 Republican National Convention, and the state repression that they and fellow organizers are facing as they prepare for their upcoming trial. The two-hour event will include a lecture, discussion, and video/slide-show. [Read more]
FAIR USE NOTICE: This is a freely available archive on an issue of significant public interest and importance, compiled to increase public awareness and to offer journalists, historians and legal researchers a reliable reference source for materials related to the 2008 Republican National Convention. Fair use of copyrighted material includes the use of protected materials for non-commercial educational purposes, such as teaching, scholarship, research, criticism, commentary, news reporting, and other content. The content on this site is only being used for educational, informational, and noncommercial purposes. RNC08report.org will cite authors and sources of all content as we would material from any printed work.
