Protestors

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 3 days ago
Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Cobb thinks clothes should make a statement. Since her clothes can't, the South Central High School sophomore has come up with another way to express herself: e-mail. ...

Source: www.cnn.com --- 4 hours ago
Police arrested an estimated 200 anti-war protesters Thursday night after using tear gas and percussion grenades to disperse a crowd near the State Capitol, about a mile from the Republican National Convention. ...

Source: slashdot.org --- 3 days ago
X0563511 alerts us to events in Minneapolis and St. Paul in advance of the Republican convention (which has been put on hold because of Hurricane Gustav ). Local police backed by the FBI raided a number of homes and public buildings and confiscated computers and other material. From Salon.com: "Last night, members of the St. Paul police department and the Ramsey County sheriff's department handcuffed, photographed and detained dozens of people meeting at a public venue to plan a demonstration, charging them with no crime other than 'fire code violations,' and early this morning, the Sheriff's department sent teams of officers into at least four Minneapolis area homes where suspected protesters were staying. Jane Hamsher and I were at two of those homes this morning — one which had just been raided and one which was in the process of being raided." Here is local reporting from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune : "Aided by informants planted in protest groups, authorities raided at least six buildings across St. Paul and Minneapolis to stop an 'anarchist' plan to disrupt this week's Republican National Convention. From Friday night through Saturday afternoon, officers surrounded houses, broke down doors, handcuffed scores of people and confiscated suspected tools of civil disobedience... A St. Paul City Council member described it as excessive, while activists, many of whom were detained and then released without charges, called it intimidatio ...

Source: elections.foxnews.com --- 3 hours ago
ST. PAUL, Minn. –Police arrested protesters Thursday night after a lengthy series of marches and sit-ins timed to coincide with Sen. John McCain’s acceptance of the Republican Party’s nomination for president. The arrests came after protesters staged their march near the state Capitol even though their permit had expired. Among the dozens caught up in the police [...] ...

Source: colorado.indymedia.org --- 2 days ago
"There is clearly an intent on the part of law enforcement authorities here to engage in extreme and highly intimidating raids against those who are planning to protest the Convention... Targeting people with automatic-weapons-carrying SWAT teams and mass raids in their homes, who are suspected of nothing more than planning dissident political protests at a political convention and who have engaged in no illegal activity whatsoever, is about as redolent of the worst tactics of a police state as can be imagined..." http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/30/police_raids/ Federal government involved in raids on protesters More extraordinary than these extreme raids is the fact that they are generating so little attention and even less outcry. http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/31/raids/index.html read more ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 3 days ago
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Gustav hits Republicans' rally but Protestors persist ...

Source: www.femalefirst.co.uk --- 2 days ago
Katie Holmes' Broadway debut will be attended by an anti-Scientology group wearing masks. The former 'Dawson's Creek' actress - who became a follower of the bizarre sci-fi cult, after marrying Tom Cruise in November 2006 - will face a silent protest from demonstrators from Anonymous in Guy Fawkes masks when 'All My Sons' opens on October 16 in New ... ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 3 days ago
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Source: marcambinder.theatlantic.com --- 3 days ago
From talking to folks here and reading local news coverage, it seems that a small band of anarchists have hijacked what had been very peaceful protests, and the protesters are suffering as a result.  ...

Source: www.wtopnews.com --- 1 day ago
Gary Emerling, Political Reporter, Washington Times ...

Source: cbs2chicago.com --- 2 days ago
Some protesters decided not to take the assigned route, and instead went over the St. Peter bridge blocking traffic and having police following behind (:33). ...

Source: www.catholic.org --- 3 days ago
Police grabbed a woman praying at the site and took her away.More than one hundred protesters, led by the ... ...

Source: cbs5.com --- 3 days ago
Officers in riot gear, on horseback and armed with clubs and pepper spray moved into position near the Xcel Center in ST. Paul, Minnesota to control a group of anti-war Protestors who had broken from the main march. ...

Source: cbs5.com --- 3 days ago
Raw video of riot police as they fired pepper spray at Protestors and pushed them back with their bikes near the Xcel Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. ...

Source: www.kare11.com --- 1 day ago
Click here for extended protest coverage If success is measured in numbers only, yesterday's march by the Poor People's Economic and Human Rights Campaign would ...

Source: www.kare11.com --- 8 hours ago
Click here for more Kupchella blogs 5:19 Hundreds of Protestors shutdown John Ireland Bridge... There is now a standoff between the Protestors and police. ...

Source: www.kare11.com --- 3 days ago
Click here: Thousands join RNC march The State Capitol has long been the epicenter of Minnesota politics, but rarely has the discourse been as loud or impassioned as the ...