RNC: Dave Bicking interview about daughter Monica’s arrest
September 1st, 2008
As the Republican National Convention fades into the distance, likely canceled due to “weather,” the “grand march” is winding up, police are tailing the students leaving Macalester, helicopters overhead, and there’s a police blockade at Smith and Grand with a couple of arrests so far…
From Uptake (video reports here) and MinnPost, here’s an interview with Dave Bicking about his daughter’s arrest. Dave Bicking, Green Party, ran for City Council last election cycle and he was a crucial player in taking down Kandiyohi’s Midtown Burner, planned for the Phillips neighborhood.
And on MinnPost:
The good news is that there was a post in Twin Cities Indymedia that Monica Bicking had been released, but now that post has vanished…
And on a lighter note, from the STrib:
If they don’t break the law…
September 1st, 2008
Choice link with a video that sums it all up, from the Daily Planet, Vlad Teichberg, Glass Bead Collective, on the targeting of journalists and advice for the cops:
More from the Minnesota Independent:
National Lawyers Guild seeks to have judge review detentions of six activists by end of day
National Lawyers Guild: What police raids seized yesterday was not “weaponized” urine
… what a concept…
From the Daily Planet:
From the STrib about the Veterans for Peace march:
… and the good news – the convention seems to be cancelled…
So now everyone can go home and the RNC slides out of town without accountability…