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Approximately 200 concert-goers from last night’s Rage Against the Machine concert at the Target Center organized themselves into a march down 7th Street in downtown Minneapolis, in defiance of Minnea Continue Reading
“Very busy!”That’s how State Representative Laura Brod, an alternate delegate to the 2008 Republican National Convention from New Prague described this week, full of parties and meetings with national movers and shakers. With such a packed schedule, State Senator Dave Senjem of Olmsted County said, most delegates have yet to meet a protester or see them outside of a newspaper or television set. Senjem is the Minority Leader in the Minnesota Senate and another of what Senjem said were 43 other alternate delegates to the convention. When they do come face-to-face with protesters, Senjem said, it is mostly with activists using confrontational tactics to disrupt delegates’ activities. In his view, he said, “some of them are, you know, a little too far…You have a right to carry your message forward but destruction of property is something else”
Both Brod and Senjem said their fellow delegates did not seem to be very receptive to protesters’ messages. Continue Reading
At least one demonstrator was dubdued by the police The demonstrators then dispersed, some of the crying. It appears the police used pepper spray – see the cannisters held by Sheriff’s Deputies. Continue Reading
The mounted police got in front of the buses and moved forward to clear the street. Three other demonstrators pulled some garbage bins intor the street and dumped them in front of the bus. Continue Reading
The demonstrators began to regroup on the northbound side of Kellogg. They seemed intent on stopping the buses. Continue Reading
The mounted police regrouped and stood directly in front of the demonstrators. At this point, some buses started to leave, coming north on Kellogg from behind the gated fence.
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