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Independent Bay Area group, Some of All Parts, bridges the Green Party message with urban music, through their debut song "Run"

Adelaide Elm Kimball, Senior Advisor and a Board Member of Project Vote Smart

If Congress has shown us anything, it is that when they are scared, they'll do anything. Seven years ago, in the twilight after 9/11 and in the wake of the anthrax attacks, Congress passed sweeping authorizations to the White House for war on a whim, and signed the so-called Patriot Act in record time. Some members admitted that they didn't even read the bill before voting "aye."

One-minute QT movie. 19MB.

Earlier this year, American financier George Soros announced, shortly after the failure of the economic talks at Davos, Switzerland, that the U.S. economy has reached a new stage marking an end of the era. "The current crisis is not only the bust that follows the housing boom", Soros explained, adding, "It's basically the end of a 60-year period of continuing credit expansion based on the dollar as the reserve currency."

On Sept. 28, 2008, Ralph Nader and Matt Gonzalez did an appearance at UC Santa Barbara as part of their campaign for the presidency on the Peace and Freedom party ticket. They are currently proceeding northward out of Los Angeles, and have more events planned in the central coast and San Francisco Bay area in the next few days. http://www.votenader.org/events/

There is another factor that we cannot ignore; what former GOP house majority leader, Dick Armey (R - Tex) calls 'the Bubba vote. In Armey's words, "The Bubba vote is there, and it's very real, and it is everywhere," Armey went on to explain what he meant by 'the Bubba vote'; "There's an awful lot of people in America, bless their heart, who simply are not emotionally prepared to vote for a black man." There it is.

Audio collage mix of protest sounds and media from the streets of St. Paul Minn. Preventive detention raids, Democracy Now arrests, concussion grenade and teargas attack.

Richard and Fay discuss a chaotic street battle they witnessed in downtown St. Paul and the experience of having been struck with a police baton, being detained and later dropped off outside of town -- as well as reflect on their general impression of events over the past week and where they think direct resistance might be headed. Also see: http://www.zeroriotcop.blogspot.com/

The Dakota people reclaimed their sacred ancestral space at Coldwater Spring in South Minneapolis on September 2, 2008, and after a stand-off with police the Dakota were granted a 4-day permit, which they did not request, to perform their sacred ceremonies. Their intention is to permanently claim the land for an indigenous cultural and health center with gardens, buffalo, and a charter school. With an impending police confrontation over the land on Friday, the Dakota held a press conference at their Coldwater Spring camp at 2pm. At 3pm, the permit police issued expired but no police had arrived to expel them as of 6pm. For more information and photos taken September 3rd, see http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/05/18533302.php. Chris Mato is interviewed first below, and then Jim Anderson. (Video of the press conference will be posted at a later date.)

Wendy Binion, who works with Portland Indymedia, was snatched from Mears Park in St. Paul during the rally prior to the March for Our Lives on September 2nd, 2008. She was surrounded by riot cops in the street and was taken away to a special facility for processing. Her detainment is part of a definite pattern by authorities during the RNC to disrupt and intimidate independent media journalists who were covering the demonstrators' perspective from the streets of St. Paul.

The RNC Welcoming Committee held a joint press conference with the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign regarding the charges announced the day before against eight Welcoming Committee members, the violent tactics of the police to suppress dissent in St. Paul and across America, and the media's role taking the word of the police without question and largely ignoring those who are denied basic resources in our society. One person who had been arrested testifies about having been tortured in the Ramsey County Sheriff's Jail. RNC 8 Charged with "Conspiracy to Riot in Furtherance of Terrorism" RNC Welcoming Committee to Unmask, Answer Questions

The RNC Welcoming Committee held a joint press conference with the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign regarding the charges announced the day before against eight Welcoming Committee members, the violent tactics of the police to suppress dissent in St. Paul and across America, and the media's role taking the word of the police without question and largely ignoring those who are denied basic resources in our society. One person who had been arrested testifies about having been tortured in the Ramsey County Sheriff's Jail. RNC 8 Charged with "Conspiracy to Riot in Furtherance of Terrorism" RNC Welcoming Committee to Unmask, Answer Questions

Short video of suppression of anti-RNC protests on September 1, 2008 in St Paul Minnesota.

After leaving jail, a woman explains what happened to another person arrested near her.

Without going into all of the supersecret ways that anarchists spot undercover cops in a crowd, these two men were pointed out as infiltrators by reliable sources and then interviewed on camera. The two split up once they realized they were "made" and then one just left the march all together. Interview conducted at the the March For Our Lives in St. Paul, September 2nd, 2008.

The energy on the streets in the earlier part of the march, before the cop attack....

Raw audio of the arrest of Amy Goodman and other Democracy Now! crew members in St. Paul, caught up in a wave of massive police brutality and arrests on the first day of the RNC.

Internet radio streams are offering live coverage of the protests against the RNC in the Twin Cities Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Interview with Delyla Wilson about police intimidation and the impounding of their permaculture bus.

Biden is a central character in the so-called Washington consensus, the brain trust that found Iraq war acceptable, that supported globalization, that lives off of the cream of corporate largess, while the average person lives a life of quiet desperation, in the hung for rent, for food, gas, for a better education.

The police assaults on protesters and organizers in Denver and elsewhere suggests a strategic lesson: If you are planning direct action, do ONLY that action and lay low at other times so you cannot be pre-empted

Interviews from the DNC 2008

In the US, democracy is a word that we throw out to justify armed invasions and illegal violations of international law -- it has no intrinsic meaning. In Pakistan, democracy is thriving and alive. It marched in the streets, it spoke in the courts, and it ran in the actions of Parliament, demanding impeachment.

Video from the Reclaim the Streets action organized by unconventional denver (www.dncdisruption08.org). Video shows the kick-of of the street party, its arrival in front of the Brown Palace (the first of three hotels the march got to) and the police line standoff in front of Lincoln Park on Broadway where one person got arrested (note undercover police officer behind policelines). Video is 5min and 9sec long.

In fact, things are more repressive today than they were in '68, for then, anti-war activists and students could at least march through the streets. They got their asses whipped, but at least they marched. Today, city governments have built cages for protest. So much for respect for the constitution!

The US media has, once again, echoed the administration line, which points Russians as the side which provoked the conflict. But most media can only do so if it ignores news reports from early August, which stated that Georgian troops attacked rebel fighters in South Ossetia, an impoverished mountainous region which won independence from Georgia after a bloody war in the early '90's.

If Barack Obama wins the White House, it will be a considerable political achievement. It will be made possible only by the votes of millions of whites, most especially younger voters. This does not diminish such an achievement, it just sharpens the nature of it. But Black faces in high places does not freedom make.

Go to Cindy's website and follow the instructions for making sure that you and your friends and neighbors have signed her petition . OR If you are a registered San Francisco voter, please make a special trip to Cindy's office at 1260 Mission St (between 8th and 9th Streets) as soon as possible and sign her petition -- if you have not already done so. Four-minute QT movie. 60MB.

Millions have apparently forgotten the bitter lessons from the 2006 mid term election, when Democrats prevailed in congressional elections, formed a slight majority in both houses, and proceeded to do -- nothing....Elections aren't endings -- they are beginnings -- and movements mustn't stop moving; they should protest more!