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Latest blog posts from Rhubarbarism

Flag burning prosecuted in Winona
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Published 3 weeks ago

The RNC Welcoming Committee's statement on govt repression
The a href="http://theuptake.com"Uptake/a, which has done fantastic work in recording during the RNC convention and getting unheard voices out, taped the news conference of much-maligned and currently besieged anarchist group the a href="http://www.nornc.org"RNC WC/a. Eight organizers are facing... Read more...
Published a month ago

Mass Arrest at Shepard Road Video
I finally figured out how to post it. Here's the actual mass detention. br /br /object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/U3_jHSI0KbUhl=enfs=1"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/U3_jHSI0KbUhl=enfs=1"... Read more...
Published a month ago

The atrocious arrest of Democracy Now! producer Nicole Salazar
While reporting on a police action against protesters, Democracy Now! producer Nicole Salazar was brutally tackled. Minneapolis police repeatedly ignored their pleas that they were journalists, and eventually charged her and a colleague with felony conspiracy to riot. MPD repeatedly targeted... Read more...
Published a month ago

Mass detainment and attack on protesters on Shepard Road
I was covering the anti-capitalist block that was attacked and detained on Shepard Road in St. Paul on the first day of anti-RNC protests. Here's two rough videos from my camera. The first is the initial confrontation by riot police, the noises are rubber bullets, teargas, and smoke bombs. After... Read more...
Published a month ago

A world where that doesn't happen: Activists respond to police raids
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Published a month ago

Welcome to Minnesota: Out of town activists pulled over by police at gunpoint
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Published a month ago

Raids on activist spaces and homes in days before RNC
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Published a month ago

Debacle on top of debacle: Promoting a CD release show
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Published 2 months ago

Taking a break from being boring: Chokecherry's Tour Blog
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Published 2 months ago

Commentary: Democracy: Just a bad Reality-TV show?
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Published 2 months ago

The heterogeneous bike threat: Response to anti-bike blog at City Pages
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Published 2 months ago