 There are 1225 documents on this website... See anything missing? Check out our progress log. Text: Elliot Hughes Case Resolved With trial about to commence on the following day and a witness already on a plane bound for the Twin Cities, the two parties struck a last-minute deal after hours of hard bargaining in the hallways of the Ramsey County Courthouse. [Read more] Video & Audio: We're Getting Ready For Court. What Are You Doing? In the summer of 2007, an Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian group ironically named the “RNC Welcoming Committee (RNC-WC)” released a satirical video entitled, “We're Getting Ready.” The video sparked a quarter-of-a-million dollar investigation by the infamously humorless Ramsey County Sheriff's Office into the RNC-WC. Almost a year and a half later, eight organizers face conspiracy charges. They're getting ready for trial, and invite anyone with a heart still beating to come. [Read more] Video & Audio: Donna Lieberman on Policing the 2004 RNC Donna Lieberman, Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, describes what took place in NY during the 2004 Republican National Convention. Police tactics ranged from video taping demonstrators and intimidating reporters to random and preventative arrests. She is addressing the Forum on Dissent in America Since 9/11. [Read more] Text: Few fireworks at RNC 8 hearing Defense, prosecution debate process; ‘conspiracy to riot’ trial begins Oct. 25 As a long-anticipated “RNC 8” hearing got underway Tuesday, a dozen lawyers, eight defendants and scores of spectators and media members packed Judge Teresa Warner’s Ramsey County courtroom. Instead of fireworks, however, the assembled crowd got administrative process and book keeping. [Read more] Text: RNC 8 hearing packs courtroom With more than 30 supporters in the gallery, and an appearance by Sheriff Bob Fletcher, the mood was quite jovial and relaxed at the beginning. As motion after motion was debated between the two sides, tensions grew. At one point Judge Warner issued a stern reprimand to one of the defense lawyers for talking over the prosecution, An outburst of laughter and talking from some of the defendants during a particularly harsh exchange between the two sides led to Judge Warner reminding the defendants and their counsel that such actions would not be tolerated during the trial, set for October 2010. [Read more] Text: Consolidated trial for 'RNC8' set to begin Oct. 25 A trial date of Oct. 25 has been set for the defendants who have come to be known as the RNC 8. [Read more] About: Why the RNC '08 Report deserves your support Donate to support accountability and independent media! Over a year after the 2008 Republican National Convention, the RNC '08 Report continues to produce original research, and compile and archive material relating to the 2008 RNC which is used widely by legal defense teams, journalists, and activists who are working in the aftermath of this and similar events. Your support helps us both keep up and expand our work to challenge over-policing and state injustices at National Special Security Events in the United States, as well as tracking and documenting what is clearly a globalizing pattern of repression of dissent. [Read more] Text: Middle America protested in St. Paul during 2008 GOP convention Survey paints surprising profile of activists who marched on St. Paul Young anarchists who came from out of town to rouse the rabble and smash a few windows. That may be your image of the protesters at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul. In reality, those who took to the streets were mostly Minnesotans and were better educated, more likely to have a job and about the same age as the general population. [Read more] Text: Choi, Fletcher lead fundraising in Ramsey County races St. Paul City Attorney John Choi has come out at the top of the fundraising heap so far in the race for Ramsey County attorney. [Read more] Pittsburgh G-20 Archive: Security costs for G-20 summit come in under budget, mayor says The G-20 summit of world leaders cost the city of Pittsburgh $12.24 million -- lower than the council-approved budget, and within expected reimbursements by federal and state agencies, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said Monday. [Read more] Text: RNC Narrows Convention Site List to Three The 2012 Republican National Convention will be held in either Tampa, Salt Lake City or Phoenix The Republican National Committee has narrowed its list of potential cities to host the 2012 Republican National Convention down to three final contenders. [Read more] Text: RNC 8 to Argue First Amendment Motions During February 2nd Hearing Defense Motions Will Highlight Issues of Illegal Preemptive Raids and Improper Prosecution During the hearing, the defendants will also argue a number of motions impacting their upcoming trial, including a motion for dismissal of the case because the State violated their First Amendment rights. The State has disclosed a series of documents from the Ramsey County Sheriff's Department suggesting that the police singled out defendants due to their political views and writings. For just one example, the Ramsey County Sheriff's Department opened an investigation on co-defendant Luce Guillen-Givins based on publicly available, Constitutionally protected political writings and a "criminal history" that only included charges later dismissed by the courts. [Read more] Text: Salt Lake a finalist to host 2012 GOP convention Salt Lake City has been chosen as one of a few finalists in the competition to host the 2012 Republican National Convention... Salt Lake's representatives were in Washington in November to express the city's interest in competing to host the convention and was one of about a dozen cities invited to bid. Cities such as Tampa, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Antonio, Houston and Indianapolis were believed to be in the running as well. [Read more] Pittsburgh G-20 Archive: Video: Pittsburgh Hit With Big Legal Bill For G-20 Protests City Being Asked To Pay Attorneys Fees From Economic Summit The legal bill for last year's G-20 summit protests in Pittsburgh is starting to come due, and Team 4 has learned that lawyers for protest groups hit the city with a six-figure bill on Friday. Team 4 investigator Jim Parsons reports that the American Civil Liberties Union is asking a federal judge to award attorneys fees in the amount of $127,000 -- and that's just for the work ACLU lawyers did before the G-20 started. [Read more] Pittsburgh G-20 Archive: Secret Investigation Against G-20 Twitterer Has Minnesota Connection In September 2008, the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, saw considerable pre-emptive arrests of activists and journalists, including raids on independent media spaces and the Tin Can Comms Collective office, which coordinated a series of Twitter feeds during the surrounding protests relating to activist actions, legal support, and street medic teams. This update from an anarchist collective in New York, who saw members raided and arrested for a similar Tin Can Comms Twitter deployment during the September 2009 G-20 protests in Pittsburgh, PA, was reposted anonymously with the above title on Twin Cities Indymedia’s website. Local charges had been dropped against the Pittsburgh G-20 Twitterers because of an ongoing “national” investigation, presumably in lieu of pending but not yet announced federal charges. [Read more] Text: Laura Goodman joins race for Ramsey County sheriff St. Kate's chief will seek DFL backing Laura Goodman, St. Catherine University director of public safety and a longtime member of the law enforcement community, says she's running for Ramsey County sheriff this year because she thinks "the community is losing faith or trust in the sheriff's office, and I know I can do it better." [Read more] Text: Letter from the RNC 8 - January 2010 The last time that we wrote, we were only weeks beyond the 2008 RNC, and still figuring out how to navigate our case with a sense of collectivity and integrity. Now, more than a year after the fact, we find ourselves in a sort of limbo. Day to day, we don’t feel the intensity of repression that we did in the weeks surrounding the RNC, yet the trial looms somewhere in the distance and we’re not really free to move on. We return to court on February 2nd, and may come out of the hearing with a trial date certain. [Read more] Text: Brandon Darby foiled terror attack, but the men convicted of plotting against 2008 Republican Convention win recognition You’ve probably never heard of Brandon Darby. The former community organizer who saved American lives by undermining a left-wing terrorist plot at the 2008 Republican convention used to be a proud member of the radical left. [Read more] Text: Bicyclist, Minneapolis to settle on $70K A proposed settlement with Minneapolis will help pay a bicyclist's legal bills after his arrest at a Critical Mass ride The city of Minneapolis is poised to pay $70,800 to a bicyclist who said he sustained minor injuries and had his rights violated when he was arrested in an altercation during a Critical Mass ride in 2007. Part of the award will cover $35,000 in legal fees that Gus Ganley ran up to win an acquittal on all three charges brought against him after his arrest during the event, in which hundreds of bikers filled Minneapolis streets. 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