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• Saturday, August 30, 2008 12:10 PM

  Interesting that they targeted Minneapolis local residents ... well-established entities in their homes ... rather than the "outside agitator" types ...

  It looks like Welcoming Committee is well organized ... today's events have been relocated, for instance.

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  I knew Voices was en route so I just checked and the Voices For Creative Nonviolence (from Chicago to St. Paul) is due to reach St. Paul tomorrow and their itinerary does not mention the RNC Welcoming Committee --they are having joint events with Code Pink and IVAW and Global Exchange.

  From Voices:

  After completing the 500 mile walk, Witness Against War, on August 30 to St. Paul- Voices for Creative Nonviolence steps to the Funeral Procession March on August 31 to join Veterans for Peace, who have helped coordinate stops along much of the 7 weeks of walking through the Midwest.

  Please join us and Code Pink, Global Exchange, and Iraq Veterans Against the War - to begin at 11 AM and include civil disobedience action for some, calling for end to war.

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  United for Peace and Justice also has a presence and a full impressive itinerary for the convention.

  http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3942

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  Recreating the violence and chaos of 1968 Democratic Convention is "sexy" in ways the RNC can never hope to be ...

  —susan sunflower Read susan sunflower's other letters
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