The RNC 8's Pre-trial hearing starts Feb 2 at 9am at Ramsey Co Court house.

[annm4peace]

Please show up and give support if you can, for those of us who don't have much time off we have to save our days for the trail, but if you can make the hearings that would be incredible.


(in 2007, when it was announced the Republican Convention would be in St Paul, local activists began organizing for all the peace and social justice groups that would come to the twin cities to express their grievances with the Republican Party policies. The Feds, Secret Service, Homeland Security, and North Com. would also begin organizing, spying, infiltrating and in August raiding homes, and meeting places of local organizers)

http://www.terrorizingdissent.org




What is so ironic it seems like lately in the twin cities the corporate Newspapers report on the latest Ponzi schemes, and mortgage fraud every couple of weeks, in which people lost millions and so many lives destroyed. So in 2007, 2008 the FBI was too busy spying on Peace And Social Justice groups, than to investigate white collar crime.


Local Corporate News has yet to report on the up coming hearings on the RNC 8


There is a motion hearing for the RNC8 on Tuesday, February 2nd at the Ramsey County Courthouse (15 W. Kellogg Boulevard; St. Paul, MN) Room 131B. It starts at 9 AM and will run all day, with a break for lunch. The purpose is to take care of all the pre-trial motions and schedule a date certain for the trial. Probably not all the pre-trial motions will be gotten through; some will be handled at a later date yet to be scheduled.

The courtroom is on the ground floor. Go to Room 130 where the blue video screens are (and where people pay their fines). The door to 131B is at the back of that room.

The courtroom is large enough to accommodate 50 people easily. The RNC 8 will sit in the jury box. They'd like to see a lot of friendly faces when they look out at the courtroom. And it's important to let the court know that a lot of people are interested in this case and are watching closely. So please come if you can. If you can only come for part of the day, do that.

For people coming in the morning (or returning from lunch), come a little early if you can, so that the cops can't take up all the good seats.

There will be a break for lunch around noon. It will last until 1 or 1:30, depending on what the judge wants to do. You can get a sandwich and coffee from the machines in the basement, or you can go out to the surrounding shops and restaurants.

[annm4peace]

1. They'll come after the Unions next

I'm from Central CA.

I saw what is happening to MN play out in Central CA about 30 years ago. Since I was young when it started I didn't fully understand what the end game was. and it happens over time.
this trial is part of the beginning

(there will be excessively high unemployment, gangs, police take over of parks and recreation, city budgets going mostly for law enforcement, and people not fighting back but giving in, apathetic, there are no leaders for the people)

First Corporate takes over your biggest newspapers (done, 10years ago)
and radio stations (they didn't know Janet Roberts and 950AM would be around)

Then they rally and enlarge the "evangelical (corporate) big box churches that support greed and military power. (check also about 10 years ago started) Think Gov Pawlenty and the church in Eden Prairie, and Michelle Bachman and Mac Hammond's church. (done)

They try to split the peace/social activists from the Unions. Try to get the Unions to go against the peace community. (we saw what Unionized law enforcement did to social/peace activists).


They go after the young activists because they are the organizers who will try to stop the corporations greed and take over of resources whether it is workers, water, minerals in the land, farming, etc.

Then they will go after the Unions. You already hear in the speech of Pawlenty, Bachman and Kline.


Union members need to stand strong with these Activists because you are going to be next.

This resolutions was partly written by one of the Unions in Duluth who understands Solidarity.

Resolutions Opposing Charges Against the RNC 8


WHEREAS a free society is one in which people can organize collectively to improve their lives without fear of persecution by their government;


WHEREAS progressive movements for social change have historically suffered state intimidation and repression in our efforts to organize, including but not limited to the unconstitutional arrest of Minnesota labor organizers under "criminal syndicalism" laws of the first half of the 20th century;


WHEREAS the criminal conspiracy charges filed by Ramsey County, Minnesota prosecutors in September of 2008 against eight preemptively arrested organizers of Republican National Convention protests in Saint Paul (known as the "RNC 8") are still being pursued, with no evidence that the defendants committed any act of violence and with no alleged victim;


BE IT RESOLVED that we oppose the politically-motivated criminal charges against the "RNC 8" Republican National Convention protest organizers.

[MNmom]

2. Good point - the FBI was so busy spying on peace groups that

they missed the Ponzi schemes!! So crazy.

[annm4peace]

3. Still no Corporate Coverage !