Press Release: National Lawyers Guild Condemns Fabrications of Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher & Preventative Detention Arres
Press ReleasesPolice Actions Designed to Chill Free Speech of RNC Opponents: Permitted March for September 1 goes forward despite police press
Press Releases8/29/08 - Press Release: Prominent speakers from diverse groups will address anti-war rally in St. Paul on September 1st
Press ReleasesColdsnap Legal Collective 24 Hour-a-Day Jail Vigil During RNC - Looking for Volunteers
Coldsnap Legal Hotline - 651.356.8635
Hey folks! Coldsnap needs your help! We are coordinating a 24 hour-a-day jail vigil to provide support and services to our friends and community members as they are released from jail. In order to have a round the clock presence, we need lots of people to come hang out and help out at the jails. If you are interested in getting on the outtake schedule, please email Lindsey at lindshives@gmail.com. Otherwise, just show up and bring your friends! We'll be there 24 hours throughout the RNC, starting Friday night after critical mass. Sign up for the RNC legal twitter account to get jail updates (check www.tincancollective.org for instructions). If you get released from jail, come visit us for legal info, food, medical care, and chocolate! We've got your back!
Ramsey County Jail - 425 Grove St., St Paul (24 hour vigil)
Hennepin County Jail - 350 S. 5th St., Minneapolis (vigil as needed- check twitter)
City of St. Paul's "Public Viewing Area and Open Forum Stage"
According to the City of St. Paul website, they will operate a "public viewing area and open forum stage" during the RNC. Protest RNC 2008 does not endorse or agree with this controlled and restricted protest zone or format. But we are providing a link to the city's plans so people can see what the City of St. Paul is doing, since we have received questions about it. Here is the map of their "Public Viewing Area". The City of St. Paul information can be found here.
8/26/08 - Press Conference: Why we are joining the September 1 anti-war march on the RNC
Press ReleasesFree Local Bus Rides to the Sep 1 March on the RNC
The Welfare Rights Committee, the Minnesota Immigrants Rights Action Coalition and U of MN Students for a Democratic Society are organizing bus service to help local folks get to the protest from campus, low-income and immigrant communities.
Minneapolis
North: Broadway & Lyndale (Cub Foods Lot) @10:00am
South: Lake St. & Bloomington Ave. @10:00am
St. Paul
West Side: By Neighborhood House - 179 Robie St E @10:00am
Roosevelt Community Center: 1575 Ames Ave. @10:00am
McDonough Community Center: 1544 Timberlake Rd. @10:20am
Mt. Airy Community Center: 91 East Arch St. @10:40am
University of Minnesota
East Bank: Behind Coffman Union @10:00am
West Bank: Outside of Rarig Center @10:00am
St. Paul Campus: Outside of St. Paul Student Center @10:00am
More info: 612-379-3584
The Coldsnap legal primer for the RNC has arrived!
Check out this amazing zine...a veritable bible of legal support info!
"NEED*TO*KNOW BASIS: Coldsnap Legal Collective's Minnesota Legal Primer for the RNC" is awesome and super comprehensive, and is there for all of your legal knowledge, support, and solidarity needs—as well as pure reading pleasure! This is the stuff you probably didn't learn in school—but should have.
Read it, learn it, and share it with your friends!
Love and solidarity,
*Coldsnap Legal Collective*
Coffee News Cafe supports RNC Protesters!
A message from Coffee News Cafe:
Hello!
Thanks for EVERYTHING you are doing to get the peoples' voice heard over the four days of the RNC!
I am writing to you to let you know that Coffee News Cafe at 1662 Grand Avenue in St. Paul is one of the few businesses that is gearing itself NOT to be welcoming the RNC but rather the protesters that will be flooding our cities to speak out against them.
We are having a collective show that will feature many well known local artists and some not so well known, but we would like to invite everyone in to see the TRUTH as told by ART show that will be up for six weeks beginning next weekend.
We can always use more ART, too!!! I want this place packed ceiling to floor with art that speaks the truth about where the Republican Party has put our country!
Coffee News Cafe
1662 Grand Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55105
The Arise! Infoline -- Crashing the convention through the sheer power of information!
**The Arise! Infoline -- Crashing the convention through the sheer power of information!**
Call the Arise information hotline at 612-871-2283 for basic information about public protest/action schedules, transit and transportation info, community resources, rumor control, and everything unexpected. We'll refer out for answers to medical (North Star Health Collective) and legal (Coldsnap Legal Collective) questions.
Do you need to know how to get to the Hard Times? And just where is Walker Church, anyway? Where can you borrow a bicycle? What's the address of the Government Center? When does the Poor People's March start? Call us at 612-871-2283 and we'll help you out!
The infoline will be up and running from 8am to midnight starting August 29.
**The Arise! Atlas -- 200 pages of street maps, bke routes and radical local history**
If you like your information in paper form, stop by Arise for a copy of our handy-dandy, pocket-sized atlas. Addresses and contact information for all kinds of local radical institutions and other useful places, resources, places to visit, and various neat stuff. Plus lots of maps and interesting day trips. Only $6!
**Arise! Books Extended Hours and "Green" Space**
We'll be open from 8am to midnight from August 29 to September 5 as a safe, "green," family friendly gathering spot for convention-crashers of all stripes. We offer a cool place to rest, water (and occasional food!), a public bathroom, internet access, maps and schedules, and a safe space for those who have taken part in actions to decompress, talk and recover.
