Our chants reverberated under the St. Paul skyway. The 2008 RNC protests were underway, the culmination of two years of anarchist/anti-authoritarian organizing materializing before our eyes. For once, we were many, and they were few… or maybe not. With 3500 cops and an uncounted number of National Guardsmen and Secret Service agents on the streets, this time they had both the guns and the numbers.
Overwhelming force was only one element of the state’s repression strategy. The main hub of direct action coordination– the RNC Welcoming Committee– had been infiltrated by at least one undercover cop and two paid informants almost a year prior. On Friday night, the hammer came down with a raid on the St. Paul Convergence Center. Cops busted in the doors with guns drawn, forcing about 100 people to the ground, zip-tying them, and then photographing everyone and taking IDs. What a start to the weekend…
GROUND NOISE & STATIC DVD $14.95
untold stories of the 2008 presidential conventions
An independent documentary by Franklin López (subMedia.TV) and PepperSpray Productions. Footage from over a dozen indy journalists drives this searing exposé of police brutality and democratic rights. Ground Noise & Static tracks the rise of the new activist movement and the parallel rise in repression in America. Available now online or on DVD. (30 minutes)
In the wake of this summer’s defiant protests in St. Paul and Denver comes Ground Noise & Static, the instant underground hit from Franklin López and PepperSpray Productions.
The documentary is dedicated to learning from the conventions, reporting on how organizers relied on successful tactics and adaptive management. As the conflict intensifies in the host cities, the video exposes the latest wave of police aggression against protestors, indy journalists, and media activists.
This summer’s protests were unprecedented. Volunteers started preparing their “welcoming committees” a full year in advance. But before and during the conventions, police attempted to cripple the movement by raiding activists’ homes, seizing equipment and arresting key individuals.
This may be payback by Fox for the harrasment they received from the St. Paul, Po Po. In any event, it’s cool to get some acknowledgement from these corporate scumsuckers.
and for anyone interested in resistance actions at night, think RNC / DNCthis is pretty nifty. “I-R.A.S.C. is a device giving every citizen a reliable protection from governmental security measures. I-R.A.S.C. is security again security and therefore a response to the dissymmetry of the forces between state and individual.
Instead of showing and interaction among human-beings, or between man and machine, I-R.A.S.C. demonstrates an interaction among machines. This is part of absurd situation - while the
time and effort invested into protection measures aims at the alleged safety of the citizens, the individual looses importance in this safety concept.
I-R.A.S.C is an infra-red device working as a protection shield from infra-red surveillance cameras. Everibody can rebuild this device without special technical skills. “
This may be payback by Fox for the harrasment they received from the St. Paul, Po Po. In any event, it’s cool to get some acknowledgement from these corporate scumsuckers.
“I-R.A.S.C
time and effort invested into protection measures aims at the alleged safety of the citizens, the individual looses importance in this safety concept.
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