Protest/Direct Action

We’re Bringing Sexy Back:
A Call for an Anti-Authoritarian Bloc at the Emergency March Against the Troop Surge in Afghanistan

On Saturday, March 21, hundreds gathered in St. Paul to mark the 6^th anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq. The demonstration was initiated by the Iraq Peace Action Coalition, an organization made up of dozens of Twin Cities activist groups. An opening rally began under sunny spring skies in front of the Martin Luther King Community Center. Signs and banners displayed anti-war messages including “Bring the Troops Home Now” and “Money for Schools, Not for War.” Those gathered were determined to speak out against the war despite recent rhetoric from President Obama about a drawdown of U.S. troops.

See also: Nationwide 6th anniversary coverage at Indymedia.us

An International Day of Solidarity is being called for January 23, 2009, for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the Greek Anarchists and other anti-authoritarian activists in Greece. There are many overlaps between these two struggles, and those similarities are explored below. The date of the demonstration is to also commemorate the anniversary of the Riots in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, during the period of Nazi Germany (1943), where 70,000 Jewish people took this city back, and held it for a long time before the Germans took over.

Project to Stop the War Industry (PSWI) has accepted a plea agreement with Anoka County.

Support the Anoka Arrestees! Pack the courtroom!

The 8 remaining arrestees from the lockdown in July at ATK, a major weapons manufacturer and war profiteer, are going to court this Thursday, October 16th at 8:30am for pre-trial proceedings, and we would love to see you there. Pack the courtroom to demand that all charges be dropped.

Directions to the Anoka Courthouse can be found here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en&q=directions%20minneapo...

Go to the following URL for 18 pics:
http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/83671/index.php

Although the RNC Welcoming Committee had an uplifting meeting today in Powderhorn Park with hundred of supporters, ready to regroup and continue action after yesterday's raids, more signs of further conflict with the military state are surfacing.

One of the nine people arrested at the ATK weapons manufacturing facility in Anoka, Minnesota last month came home Monday afternoon to find the business card of Saint Paul Police Department Sergeant Scott Duff left in his mailbox with a note written on the back reading “Please call when you have time, thanks.” The individual immediately contacted an NLG lawyer who then contacted Sergeant Duff inquiring about the nature of the request.

Blockade the RNC: Update #1 from Sector 1
"How to" Guide Released

An invitation to help blockade Sector 1 at the RNC

On September 1 thousands of activists will set out in a coordinated effort to shutdown the Republican National Convention. The RNC Welcoming Committee (RNC-WC) has divided downtown St. Paul into seven sectors in which the swarm, seize, stay strategy of blockades will be actualized. Groups are being asked to adopt a sector and/or to adopt a specific intersection in one of the sectors.