Antiwar march planned for last day of RNC

[seafan]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_convention_protests;_ylt=A0wNcwRt2L9Ilz8AFh5h24cA">Antiwar march planned for last day of RNC

By AMY FORLITI, Associated Press Writer
September 4, 2008

ST. PAUL, Minn. - As John McCain accepts his party's presidential nomination Thursday night, protesters calling for an end to the Iraq war plan to march outside the Xcel Energy Center.
The Anti-War Committee, which is organizing Thursday's march, urged others to join in and denounced the increased presence of police in riot gear and acts of "intimidation" in the streets of St. Paul.

Tracy Molm, a member of Students for a Democratic Society at the University of Minnesota, urged students to get involved.
"Students in this country are angry. We're angry because it's us that are asked to fight and die in this immoral and unjust war," Molm said Wednesday. "Bring that anger to the streets, because that is how social change in this country happens."

Police arrested 102 protesters in downtown Minneapolis early Thursday following a concert by the political rock group Rage Against the Machine, according to the Joint Information Center. Of those arrests, 100 were for misdemeanors and two were for gross misdemeanors. Eighty-seven of those arrested were tagged and released; 15 were booked.

.....

A downtown Minneapolis intersection was blocked off as police processed those arrested. Young people sat on a sidewalk, their backs against a building, or stood quietly in line, their hands in plastic cuffs behind their backs.
Including the Minneapolis protest, police have arrested 422 people since Saturday in pre-emptive raids and at protests in downtown St. Paul that were marred by violence.

.....

We are locked in the epic battle for the future of our country and quite literally, our lives.

This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days. ----Franklin D. Roosevelt, inaugural address, 1933

[rurallib]

1. I think of Rushie's 'recreate '68' group

that was supposed to disrupt Denver. MSP was supposed to be the repugs glory days

[bdamomma]

2. we cannot go quietly in the night that is for sure.

we have to fight back, peacefully of course, but if it comes down to a confrontation so be it.