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Been to Palestine Lately? The FBI Might Come Knocking at Your Door.

05/21/2011 - 10:13am

 

9:30 a.m. Refreshments; 10:00 a.m. Program. (this is the ACTUAL time)
Lutheran Church of Christ the Redeemer, 5440 Penn Ave. So., Minneapolis

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | We Have To Demand Power Won't Concede

By Mary Beaudoin, Free Speech Zone

When abolitionist Frederick Douglass said, “Power never concedes anything without demand. It never has, never will,” it was the middle of the nineteenth century. He was certainly prescient. Here, in the United States, in the 21st century, the struggle continues.MORE »

National Opt-Out Day! Say NO to body scanners at MSP airport!

11/24/2010 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Date: Wednesday, November 24th
Time: 6:30-8:30 pm
Location: Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport (MSP)
Meet outside the Houlihan's Restaurant - Pre-Security area of Terminal 1-Lindbergh, near Door #1 on the Ticketing Level
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News Day: Cops, guns, unanswered questions / Tough talk on the hill / Urban chickens / Media misinformation, more

By Mary Turck, News Day blog
Cops, guns, unanswered questions Why won't Chief Dolan talk to the Pioneer Press? Why has Mpls police officer refused to sign an affidavit prepared by the Mpls city attorney and retained a private attorney? How can the Police Community Relations Council --dissolved by the City of Minneapolis months ago -- petition the Justice Department now?MORE »

Former agent Colleen Rowley seeking FBI data on RNC policing

By Chris Steller, Minnesota Independent
I was killing time on a back bench of an eighth floor Ramsey County courtroom on Wednesday, waiting with about 50 others for something to happen (all the action in the RNC8 case that day took place behind closed doors, as it turned out), when someone who looked familiar took a seat in the next row.MORE »

VOICES | Dissent under fire at the RNC

By Lydia Howell, Special to the TC Daily Planet
“Our right to protest the government and its policies is not 'suspicious behavior'; it's Constitutionally protected speech.” Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office

I'll admit it: since the Republican National Convention brought a militarized police occupation to St. Paul, Minnesota. I've been shell-shocked.MORE »

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Keith Ellison-Muslim in Congress

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