[imc-st.louis] Fwd PRESS ADVISORY: RNC-Welcoming Committee to unmask 10am thursday!

[Ben]

Folks will try to webcast the event live over Portland IMC web radio or
Freakradio in Santa Cruz.

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PRESS ADVISORY: RNC Welcoming Committee to Unmask, Answer Questions
10am Thursday, 627 Smith Avenue, St. Paul.
Photo and interview opportunities

Contact: rncwcmedia at riseup.net, 202-277-5262

In light of the massive police and military violence playing out each
day of the Republican National Convention, the targeting, entrapment,
and persecution of protest logistics organizers, the inhumane conditions
that continue for the hundreds of people in the Ramsey County Jail, and
the harassment of supporters outside the jail, we in the RNC Welcoming
Committee are not backing down from our organizing.  The Welcoming
Committee is working harder than ever to ensure that our friends and
comrades are safe and that protesters who are speaking their minds in
the face of repression have access to food, housing, bicycles, a meeting
space, workshops, legal/jail support, and medical care.

The St Paul Police Department, the City of St Paul, and particularly Bob
Fletcher with the Ramsey County Sheriff's Department have labeled us a
"criminal enterprise", painting a picture of us and other anti-RNC
organizers as faceless terrorists.  On Thursday, September 4th at 10 AM
on the 2nd floor of the RNC Convergence Space at 627 Smith Ave S., we
will show the true faces and stories of the RNC Welcoming Committee.

We will show the 2nd floor of the convergence center as it was arranged
at the time of the police raid last Friday night.  We will give the
latest information on the RNC 8, and we will take and answer questions.
 Afterwards, several members of the Welcoming Committee will be
available for interview and photo opportunities.

The joint press conference will also feature the Poor People's Economic
Human Rights Campaign.

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Ben West
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