Your search term "'RNC 08 Report'" returned 41 result(s)Our News: G-20 Toronto: Restrictive Canadian border requirements leveled against G-20-bound journalists"Terrorizing Dissent" and "Democracy 101" director targeted on way to cover Toronto protests  JUNE 24TH/2:31PM EST—In a telephone conversation with the RNC '08 Report, protest film-maker Vlad Teichberg—director of the 2008 RNC documentary Terrorizing Dissent, and 2009 G-20 documentary Democracy 101—described his experiences at the border with Canada, while on his way to cover the G-20 in Canada, taking place this weekend. The RNC '08 Report, which has worked with Teichberg on a variety of documentary projects since the 2008 RNC, will continue to follow the story and post updates as news breaks. WITH UPDATE. [Read more]Our News: RNC 8 back in court for hearings  On Monday, May 3, the RNC 8 returned to court for several days of evidentiary hearings leading up to the joint trial of the eight that begins on October 25. Motions to be heard include those to suppress evidence from the various raids, for bail reductions, for discovery materials relating to entrapment attempts by undercover police, and for dismissal on the grounds of a lack of probable cause. Observing the hearings, court watchers from the RNC 8 Defense Committee summarized the defense argument: “The main case of the government rests on a satirical video, guilt by association, statements and actions of people who are not the defendants, and discussions by the defendants that did not constitute any kind of a real plan or conspiracy to commit riot or damage to property.” [Read more]About: Why the RNC '08 Report deserves your support Donate to support accountability and independent media! 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] Coming/Archived Events: Rescheduled Hearing: Rally and Court Solidarity for the RNC 8 on October 8 Originally slated for August and then cancelled at the last minute, the RNC 8’s scheduling and motion hearing has been rescheduled for Thursday, October 8 at 9am in room 1040 of the Ramsey County Courthouse in St. Paul. Once again - barring further delays - all of the RNC 8 and their attorneys will be in attendance. Please join them! [Read more] Our News: Urgent Appeal: Support Independent Media The RNC '08 Report needs YOUR help Our News: From St. Paul to Pittsburgh: Citizen Media is Not a Crime  My first experience with a National Special Security Event (NSSE) was the 2008 Republican National Convention (RNC), held between September 1st and 4th in St. Paul, Minnesota. Following years of work developing different areas of the independent media around the world, I co-hosted a variety of independent media from around the country in what became known as “the Indymedia Lounge” during the Convention, and was able to witness first-hand how independent media functions during a large-scale political event. The right to practice citizen journalism and freely carry the tools of reporting is a fundamental right in any free society. [Read more]Our News: Appeal for support of the RNC '08 Report Love us already? Donate now! Otherwise: [Read more] Video & Audio: Shepard Road press conference to announce class action lawsuit Raw video from today's press conference to announce the filing of a class-action civil rights lawsuit against the City of St. Paul and its law enforcement officials for the September 1st, 2008 mass arrest during the Republican National Convention. Includes footage of lawyer Bob Kolstad and plaintiff Vain Mainstream. Several other plaintiffs also spoke. [Read more] Links: Related Events: G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, PA (September 2009) The G-20 Summit is being held on September 24th-25th, 2009, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mirroring the "RNC Welcoming Committee" during the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, MN, already local anti-authoritarian groups in Pennsylvania are preparing protests for the G-20 Convention, under the name the "Pittsburgh G-20 Resistance Project". [Read more] Our News: Letter to Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan "The RNC has left the Cities, apparently the Cities cannot let go of the RNC overkill mentality of policing"  Enough is enough. We are supposed to be living in a free society. It is the job of government officials to guard those freedoms jealously. It is therefore totally unacceptable that police deploy in such large numbers for small events or—frankly—even at all if no crime is being committed. The job of the police is not to intimidate citizens, yet this is exactly what is going on these days. It is completely disgusting to see this in America. Something needs to be done. A clear message needs to be sent to end—for once and all—such intimidation of the community. The RNC has left the Cities, apparently the Cities cannot let go of the RNC overkill mentality of policing. I urge you to take immediate, unambiguous action. [Read more]Our News: Why St. Paul City Attorney John Choi is a danger to public safety  Police actions towards protesters at the 2008 Republican National Convention were excessive and have to date gone completely unchecked. The ongoing dismissals of RNC cases and hung juries underline this fact. City officials who have done nothing to put the police on notice that they must tread lightly at First Amendment events are responsible for creating a political climate where the freedom of speech of all can be said to be being seriously violated. [Read more]Our News: The RNC '08 Report: Looking Back at the First Four Months  Looking at the Google Analytics web statistic account attached to the site, statistics since its early October launch show a relatively steady growth rate, consistent with an archive-type site on a single issue. Since the site’s launch almost exactly four months ago, there have been 27,000 page views on the site, an average of 225 a day, and 5,000 total visits from just over 3,000 people, meaning that approximately 60% of those using the site are return visitors. When I look a more recent statistics, there are obviously more people who know about the site these days than when it was launched 4 months ago. In just the last month, January 1st–February 1st, the site saw 2,000 visits and 10,000 page views, with visitors spending an average of 6 minutes on the site. [Read more]Photographs: Installation of RNC photo exhibit "Looking Back, Moving Forward"  The premise of the LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD exhibit was to offer a community space where people could leave behind, access, or take home as evidence a wide variety of frozen photographic moments from the Republican National Convention that took place in St. Paul, MN in September 2008. The exhibit opened at the Black Dog Coffee and Wine Bar in Lowertown, St. Paul, MN, on January 3rd and closed on January 31st. Community submissions were sought for the exhibit during the month, and from an initial showing of 35 images on Day 1, the exhibit grew to over 300 images. The exhibit is currently scheduled to travel next to Pittsburgh. [Read more]About: Progress Log A dated log of additions and enhancements to this website... Notes about helpful new website features and news of recent content that we added to the site. [Read more] RNC Commission Archive: Mass Arrests and the Heffelfinger-Luger Report  The phrase “mass arrest” appears in the main body of the Heffelfinger-Luger report 11 times. At the official presentation of the report at the St. Paul City Council on January 14th, the phrase was used hesitantly, almost reverentially as if to state the obvious would somehow have been the wrong thing to do.... The RNC Review Commission report deals with one of the clearest problems with police actions—three mass arrests—in a completely unsatisfying way. Mass arrests are illegitimate and unconstitutional because people should only be arrested if they have committed a crime. Mass arrests target the innocent as well as the guilty. They are a form of lazy, intimidating, and civil rights-abusing police work. They expose and exploit the innocent rather than protect and serve them. [Read more]RNC Commission Archive: Initial Reactions to the Heffelfinger-Luger RNC Commission Report  I was tempted to preface the title of this article with "Some Very Initial Reactions..." simply because of the sheer size of of the report and its attachments. The Executive Summary is 15 pages long and the Main Report text reaches 82 pages, not including a 6-page index and "Exhibits" which include 21 multipage PDF files, 58 video files ranging in length from 5 seconds to over an hour, and 8 galleries of extremely slow-loading, poorly labeled, high resolution images. Although I was already familiar with around one-quarter of the supplementary documents listed, I'll still need another week to get through it all. [Read more]Coming/Archived Events: Heffelfinger-Luger RNC Commission report to be presented at St. Paul City Council On Wednesday January 14th, 2009, the Heffelfinger-Luger RNC Public Safety Commission report is due to be presented at the St. Paul City Council meeting at 3:30pm. If the meeting is anything like the Community Conversation on September 24th, 2008, it'll be something not to miss. [Read more] Our News: Open letter to Mayor Coleman about releasing RNC CCTV video  During the course of the Republican National Convention, September 1-September 4, many media sources have reported that police recorded and collected over 6,000 hours of video in downtown Saint Paul from both the network of CCTV security cameras and handheld police video cameras. The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota filed Data Practice requests on August 22nd and November 13th. The ACLU is just one organization that has filed such requests. Local organization, Communities United Against Police Brutality, filed a data request as early as September 13th. According to the ACLU, the City of St. Paul has stated that they might not release the tapes for another 2-3 years. [Read more]Links: Independent Media Organizations that Covered the 2008 RNC Documentary makers, on-the-ground camera ninjas, and citizen journalists Including Democracy Now, the Glass Bead Collective, Twin Cities Indymedia Center (TCIMC), the Minnesota Independent, The Uptake, i-Witness Video, Submedia.tv, Mobile Broadcast News, Portland Indymedia, Rochester Indymedia and Bay Area Indymedia. [Read more] Links: Key Documentaries about the 2008 RNC Key documentary films made about the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, MN including Ground Noise and Static and Terrorizing Dissent: Election Cut. [Read more] Links: Arrestee Support Organizations The organizations working with arrestees during/after the RNC, including Coldsnap Legal Collective, the Community RNC Arrestee Support Structure (CRASS), Food Not Bombs-Minneapolis, the National Lawyers Guild-Minnesota, Friends of the RNC 8, Help Dave Mahoney, The Milwaukee Three, and Support the Texas Two. [Read more] Our News: Preparing for the worst: The coming Heffelfinger/Luger report on RNC policing Due on December 15th, most observers assume a frustrating result  LET THE RNC '08 REPORT ARCHIVE YOUR SUBMISSION TO THE RNC PUBLIC REVIEW SAFETY COMMISSION! Just a few days after the RNC dust settled, it was announced that the City of St. Paul hired former U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger and former assistant U.S. Attorney Andy Luger to review police plans and how they were carried out during the Republican National Convention. What became immediately clear was that the independent review would not be a fact-finding mission to explore allegations of police wrongdoing or violations of people's rights... [Read more] Photographs: RNC 8 press conference outside Susan Gaertner fundraiser RNC 8 endorses Ramsey County Attorney's bid for Minnesotan Governor  From the event's press release: In what may be a shocking turn of events for anyone following the case of the RNC 8, the group is announcing its public endorsement of Susan Gaertner in her candidacy for Governor of Minnesota. Gaertner, the current Ramsey County District Attorney, is responsible for prosecuting all felony cases resulting from the recent Republican National Convention in St. Paul, MN. The RNC 8 are facing charges of Conspiracy to Riot in Furtherance of Terrorism, charges which they maintain are ridiculous and unfounded. Max Specktor, one of the eight, said the charges "show that Gaertner's ambition to serve the public is so strong it even extends into the absurd." [Read more]Maps & Graphics: Locations of RNC security cameras in downtown St. Paul Portland Indymedia journalist Alex Lilly mapped out the locations of the security cameras installed for the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, MN. The RNC '08 Report produced the map, version 1 of which is still incomplete, mostly in the area on the far left edge of the map. [Read more] RNC Commission Archive: Submission to the RNC Public Review Safety Commission  While the deadline for submissions to the RNC Commission has passed, the very way the Commission has gone about engaging the public has made it very difficult for the deadline to be met or the Commission to gather the testimony it needs to come to an informed conclusion. Despite a declared $100,000 budget, there were no advertisements in the local media concerning the existence, mandate, nor any submission information for the Commission. If encouraging people to testify to the Commission was important to the Commission this would not have been the case. [Read more]Photographs: Community RNC Arrestee Support Structure (CRASS) Press Conference at the State Capitol  Photos of the press conference expressing outrage at the efforts of St. Paul Police Chief John Harrington and Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher to portray violence at the Republican National Convention as protestor-led. Includes photographic materials on display at the press conference. Speakers include Bill Drebenstedt from the Anti-War Committee and Michelle Gross from Communities United Against Police Brutality. [Read more]About: Introduction to the RNC '08 Report project How and why the project came into existence... The RNC '08 Report is a citizen's archive of media reports, government documents, and other resources relating to the 2008 Republican National Convention, held in St. Paul, MN. The source material posted on this website will ultimately be used to compile a truly independent, publicly available, citizen's report on what happened during the 2008 RNC. This independent media project is currently in research stage, as materials are still being collected and archived. [Read more] About: Ways to Help/Submit to the RNC '08 Report archive If you don't see something, say something! (or do something) READ OUR CURRENT APPEAL. Obviously the more comprehensive the RNC '08 Report website is, the more useful it will be. Think something is missing? Use the search engine and browse links to double-check we've not got it. Then let us know. Or find out what we're asking for help with! [Read more] About: F.A.Q. Frequently-asked questions What is the RNC '08 Report archive project? Will you index every article, TV broadcast, etc., about the 2008 RNC on this website? Can I submit my own material about the RNC as a source? Who created the RNC '08 Report website? Why was the RNC '08 Report website created? What made this necessary? [Read more] About: How to contact the RNC '08 Report project Our e-mail address and Facebook page! The RNC '08 Report project is based in Minneapolis, MN, and welcomes contact. For questions, suggestions, submissions, and bug reports, please e-mail us. [Read more] Links: Primary Sources used by the RNC '08 Report A-Z list of links to primary sources used in this website. [Read more] Links: Local Government and Police Forces Links to Twin Cities local government and police force web resources including those of the City of Minneapolis, Mayor R. T. Rybak, the Minneapolis City Council, the Minneapolis Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the City of St. Paul, Mayor Christopher Coleman, the St. Paul City Council, the St. Paul Police Department, and the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office. [Read more] Glossary: RNC 8 The RNC 8 are Luce Guillen Givins, Max Specktor, Nathanael Secor, Eryn Trimmer, Monica Bicking, Erik Oseland, Robert Czernik and Garrett Fitzgerald. [Read more] Glossary: Swarm, Seize, Stay "Swarm, Seize, Stay" is a protest tactic for shutting down city streets. [Read more] Glossary: Brutality Insurance Coined from a September 3rd, 2008 Associated Press article by Ryan J. Foley. [Read more] Glossary: Black Bloc "Black bloc" members were widely seen among the RNC demonstrators, most memorably during the vandalism in downtown St. Paul on Day 1. [Read more] Glossary: Anarchist The term "anarchist" has been widely used, both as a self description and a pejorative—and misused—to describe segments of RNC protesters. [Read more] Glossary: 36 hour hold
Glossary: St. Paul Principles The "St. Paul Principles" were a series of principles agreed on by a wide spectrum of protest groups with differing tactics to boost unity during the RNC. [Read more] Glossary: Anti-authoritarian/anarchist glossary of 17 terms A useful list of definitions from the RNC Welcoming Committee's "Points of Unity" declaration. [Read more] Glossary: Community RNC Arrestee Support Structure (CRASS) The first meeting of arrestees and supporters took place two days after the end of the convention and meetings have continued regularly since. [Read more] |
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