MKEtoRNC is a coalition of Milwaukee activists dedicated to bringing people from Milwaukee to Minneapolis/St. Paul in 2008 to shut down the Republican National Convention (RNC). The group supports a diversity of tactics and ideologies. Meetings will be held every Sunday of October and the first Sunday of November at 7pm in the Cream City Collectives (732 E. Clarke St). A new schedule will be set up after that.
We are also hosting a Great Lakes Consulta against the RNC, November 9-11 in Milwaukee.
If you'd like to design an anti-RNC poster to be featured in our poster section, feel free. We'll accept anything, as long as it has the September 1 date and an anti-RNC message.
Who I'd like to meet:
People interested in shutting down the RNC.
Street medics, peaceful protesters, civil disobedients, shield blocs, black blocs, cooks, anti-capitalists, workshop givers, bike riders, discussion facilitators, knife throwers, clown insurgents, armor builders, blacksmiths, anti-war activists, Dee Snyder.
On May 30th - June 1st, 2008, folks from all over the Midwest will be heading to Minneapolis, Minnesota to flesh out solid proposals in regards to how we’ll work together against the RNC/DNC come September and August.
This three day event will include essential party-crashing workshops, networking, and intensive strategizing. If you have a specific workshop you’d like to see or facilitate, get a hold of us at the email address at the bottom of this release.
TO GET INTO THE STRATEGIZING SESSION YOU MUST BE VOUCHED FOR. If your planning on making it to the strategizing session, please send an RSVP (to the e-mail at the bottom of this release) specifying your willingness to be apart of it. At this point we’ll send you a form to complete and send back to us.
THE REST OF THE WEEKEND IS OPEN TO EVERYONE. Because of this, we ask that folks to keep security culture in mind to create the safest space possible for all parties involved. http://www. why-war. com/guides/2003/09/security. html
PLANNING EARLY. We are asking people to send their proposals and ideas for the strategizing session ahead of time so we can go into this organized. You can send your input to the email address at the bottom of this release.
CHILDCARE. We will be providing childcare for most (if not the entire) convergence. Please give the organizers a hand and RSVP ahead of time to the e-mail at the bottom of this release. We need to stock up on toys and supplies!
Please RSVP to the following email address well ahead of time so we know what we can expect for food, housing, numbers, ect.
The city of Minneapolis desperately grasps at straws as it drags five of the same people that it threw to the ground during a police riot, used pain compliance holds on, tased, and maced, through the legal process which will now come to a head in trials before a jury of their peers. Fortunately, those five have been well versed in their rights by their lawyers from the National Lawyers' Guild and have not backed down even when met with plea bargains that would have 'let them off' easier if they just ignored what actually happened and plead guilty to the trumped up charges.
Just as it is clear that the city with its helicopter, undercover officers, and specific targets had pre-planned the brutal attack on the 8.31.07 critical mass ride, it is also clear that we have to pre-plan our support of the five people being scapegoated by the city. The lawyers, defendants, and their families can't do this alone and shouldn't have to. A large showing of public support similar to the one at the recent January court hearing will send the clear message to the city that this issue is not one that will fall silently out of the public eye as well as encourage a verdict in favor of the defendants. It was obvious that the crowd of over twenty supporters at a purely administrative hearing was only a taste of what the actual trials will look like in one week.
Don't let the city get away with its attempt to intimidate political speech by bringing unsupported charges against a few individuals. Plan on coming to show your support of Gus Ganley, the first person to go to trial, on Tuesday, February 19th at 9:15 AM. Bring your own friends, family, and co-workers to support bicycle, civil, and human rights and don't let political oppression anywhere go unchallenged!
Details: Arrive before 9:15 to give time to get through the security checkpoint. The Hennepin County Government Center is located at 300 South Sixth Street, Minneap
It has been recently reported that the town of Brattleboro has been under attack from increased acts of abuse and hatred from Bush and Cheney supporters and need to hear support from the rest of the American Citizens who recognize clearly the blatant abuse upon the people's rights damaged and threatened by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney's acts of crimes against our constitution.
The town of Brattleboro, Vt has displayed great bravery and courage in bringing forth a petition eligible to be placed on the voting ballot that calls for the indictment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for crimes against our Constitution and thus calling for the arrest and detention of George W Bush and Richard Cheney in Brattleboro if they are not duly impeached, and prosecute or extradite them to other authorities that may reasonably contend to prosecute them.
On March 1st-2nd anti-authoritarians will gather @ the Belfry/Jack Pine community centers in Minneapolis, MN for the first U(nconventional) A(ction) - MN consulta in the books.
If your planning on attending the 2008 RNC/DNC demonstrations and you live in/border Minnesota it’d be extremely beneficial to get involved with this event.
Come prepared to discuss the updated RNC/DNC strategies, partake in essential party crashing workshops, and network with MN natives and all others involved.
Have a workshop idea? Want to do a workshop? Have something you’d really like to see come out of this consulta? Need housing? Please check in with us to the following address so we can provide enough spaces to sleep and hook you up with what you need to plug into this consulta and have a great fucking time. (It also helps us prepare enough food for everyone):
burnthroughfear@riseup.net
Figure out how to get to the Belfry with the following address: 3753 Bloomington Ave. S Minneapolis, MN
Figure out how to get to the Jack Pine with the following address: 2815 East Lake Street Minneapolis, MN
Know what your getting yourself into with the following addresses: www.unconventionalaction.org www.myspace.com/unconventionalmn www.myspace.com/belfrycenter www.thejackpine.org
If you are looking for protest event info across America, check out the SwarmTheCastle.com protest event calendar. We also need your help if you become aware of protest events taking place during the new year, to please join with us to keep more of America's protest community informed in a diverse and open forum by adding the event on the SwarmTheCastle.com protest forum if it is not already posted.
Please keep us updated at SwarmTheCastle.com on the Milwaukee Great Lakes Anti-RNC Consulta events, schedule and updates taking place during the month of December if it is not already posted.
We are meeting at 6:30pm Wednesday, October 31st on the basketball courts at the corner of Center and Pierce. There is no planned route yet, except we ARE planning to scare the kids at the nearby Halloween block party. Please come looking as dead and bloody and gruesome as possible. Let's do it up and take to the streets!
Please repost so we can get this zombie mob as big as we can and have more fun!
Students for Worker Justice Milwaukee Type: Student Groups - Service Groups Description: Are you tired of hearing about workers who have no rights being screwed at their places of employment? There are all sorts of problems going on right here in Milwaukee that need representation by students. Together we can make a difference, together we can be strong! We will work with other organizations from around town working on similar justice of issues that effect the poor and degraded. With a new school year, we have the opportunity to do alot of cool stuff!
Please join and we will find a time where we can meet and decide how we want to address some of these issues.
This group is sponsored by the Milwaukee Faith Community for Worker Justice Contact InfoEmail: mclcfaith@ameritech.net Office: 633 South Hawley Road Milwaukee, WI 53214 Street: 633 S Hawley Road Milwaukee WI 53214 City/Town: Milwaukee, WI
