IMF Block Party Beat Down

Multiple simultaneous marches bring attention to the affairs of the World Bank & International Monetary Fund. It was all fun and games until somebody put an eye out. Includes critical visual analysis of why it turned so ugly so fast.

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RNC Audience With The Mayor

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embedding options @ BlipTV MEDIA ADVISORY September, 4, 2008
For Immediate Release: Contingent of Lawyers, Activists, and Media Take Concerns of Police Brutality at RNC to Mayor Coleman's Office

Contact: Kris Hermes 510-681-6361
- WHAT: Attempt to meet with Mayor Chris Coleman about escalation of police brutality in St. Paul
- WHO: Lawyers, activists, and members of the media - WHEN: September 4, 2008 @ 4:00 p.m.
- WHERE: St. Paul Mayor’s Office, 15 W. Kellogg Blvd. Police violence has not been limited to the streets. The Coldsnap Legal Collective, providing support to people arrested at the RNC, has received numerous reports of abuse in the jails. In addition to widespread denial of medical attention, multiple people have been brutalized by Sheriff’s Deputies inside their cells.

At a press conference earlier today, recently released activist Elliot Hughes made statements that while in jail he had a bag placed over his head, a gag in his mouth, and was beaten to unconsciousness by multiple correctional officers.

RNC Poor People's Snatch & Grab

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Interview with a Portland IndyMedia reporter who was snatched from the Poor People's March Tuesday at the RNC in St. Paul mixed with footage from the incident and the march.

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RNC arrests: parking lot incident 9.1.08

This is 5 minutes of raw footage from my camera leading up to my arrest on September 1st in St. Paul. Note that I attempt to obey every command given to me by an officer yet I was charged with resisting arrest.

cops v. kids

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Funk The War, a students' peace activist group based on ending the war thru music and fun and direct action, took to the streets 9/1 in St Paul and were attacked by over zealous bike cops with bikes and "less lethal" weapons.