repression

Shout-out to all of you who are courageously out on the streets for real democracy and global emancipation!

Here's an info-packed 'zine on pepper spray, taser, and other technologies of repression. Medics, press, and legal teams will find it useful. We will also answer any questions by email.

I don't anticipate that Colorado Indymedia will attempt to follow every raid, arrest, or home invasion this week of the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul. But this may be a typical example:

A van full of activists from Texas was pulled over on Lake st. and 11th ave. in Minneapolis by police with drawn shotguns on Saturday afternoon.

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SENATOR OBAMA, LEAD OUR COUNTRY OUT OF THIS
TRAGIC REPRESSIVE JUDICIAL INJUSTICE THAT HAS BECOME AN AMERICAN ART FORM !!!

The after-dinner conversation drifted to politics, as it sometimes will, despite the best intentions of its participants.

I mentioned a Thai man who had complained to me about repression in Thailand. Speaking out against the king will land you a jail term or worse, he claimed.

“But it’s the same all over,” my British companion said. “The king is sacred there. In America, if you called Washington a sod—”

“As in George Washington? Nothing would happen. You can say just about anything you want in America,” I said, feeling a bit sheepish about giving so obvious a civics lesson. For good measure, I added: “You can burn a flag on the Capitol steps if it makes you happy.”

“You can?”

“Well, of course. Can’t you in England?”