[Mpls] Protest Cheney in Mpls 7.17 8/9:30/10am

2004-07-15 Thread David Shove
fwd msg: Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:18:01 -0500 Subject: Cheney in Minneapolis Sat 17th Lets give a furious Minnesota welcome to the master of disaster, the pupeteer plotter, the Halliburton hero, the only man on record saying "go f*ck yourself" to another senator on the senate floor: DICK CHENEY.

[Mpls] Protest layoffs, 'realignment' of MPS teachers

2004-07-08 Thread Socialist2001
Announcement posted at www.educationright.com - Picket Line & Press Conference Tuesday, July 13, 2004 807 NE Broadway (MPS service center) Join teachers

[Mpls] Protest Library Closures

2003-08-14 Thread md
Does anyone have ideas or interest in protesting the week long closure  from August 15-Sept 1, 2003 of all the libraries in Minneapolis?   Some form of protest seems necessary...   pickets?   read-ins?   puppets from In the Heart of the Beast?   What can we do to make the point that a week witho

[Mpls] Protest Numbers - DOZENS DEMONSTRATE!!!

2003-02-17 Thread Gypsycurse7
Several dozens demonstrated against the war in Minneapolis in concert with the "tens of thousands" worldwide. When asked how many dozens it had seen in Minneapolis a reporter for WorldDominationbyCorporations Media stated that he/she couldn't be sure but it might be comparable to the "tens of t

RE: [Mpls] Protest Numbers

2003-02-16 Thread Michael Hohmann
Thomas Thai, speaking of anti-war demonstrations, says: > Anyone know of a pro-war demonstration? I've not heard of such a > gathering. For one reason or another, in Mpls. and elsewhere, demonstrations in favor of going to war, or even in support of the US Administration's policy on Iraq, don't se

Re: [Mpls] Protest Numbers

2003-02-16 Thread Caffeinate The World
> the quoted 700 in Minneapolis (also in the Pioneer Press) is all but > criminal manipulation of the media and a media willing to accept it ... > the figures approach 10,000; some think more, some less. But 700 is > utterly riidiculous. I think I know how they came up with 700. On Ch. 5, they sho

Re: [Mpls] Protest Numbers

2003-02-16 Thread Anne McCandless
- From: "Andy Driscoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 1:54 PM Subject: Re: [Mpls] Protest Numbers The police all over the US are understating the turnouts by thousands. But the quoted 700 in Minneapolis (also in the Pioneer Pres

Re: [Mpls] Protest Numbers

2003-02-16 Thread Andy Driscoll
? ­ Mahatma Ghandi > From: Anne McCandless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 13:02:06 -0600 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Mpls] Protest Numbers > > According to Channel 11, the Mpls Police gave no official estimate of > the numbers. Nor is any number

[Mpls] Protest Numbers

2003-02-16 Thread Anne McCandless
According to Channel 11, the Mpls Police gave no official estimate of the numbers.  Nor is any number quoted in the Trib, Channel 4 or Channel 9.  Only channel 5 says that police (unidentified and not official) said the number was 700. I wonder how all the others major news outlets missed th

Re: [Mpls] protest

2003-01-15 Thread Socialist2001
In a message dated 1/15/2003 7:55:12 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >You can protest US actions to stop terrerism but what if then we get > more terrorism. What if we get thousands of totally innocent, uninvolved > people killed by terrorism right here in Twin Cities M

[Mpls] protest

2003-01-15 Thread James E. Jacobsen
I am fine with moderate protests, I have participated in them. But the situation here is that America has been hit by major terrorism killing thousands of totally uninvolved innocent people and doing mass destruction within the country. As well as the 9/11 event in New York City,

Re: [Mpls] protest

2003-01-14 Thread Conor Donnelly
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, James E. Jacobsen wrote: > > > I think who ever is organizing these kids to parade under these > > banners . Another faulty assumption is that the protest in Uptown consisted of mainly 'kids'. Wrong again. The current anti-war movement is extremely diverse and

Re: [Mpls] protest

2003-01-13 Thread David Shove
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, James E. Jacobsen wrote: > I think who ever is organizing these kids to parade under these > banners . You're assuming that large numbers of people would not on their own find reasons to protest US/military/Bush/war actions. That they would have to be manipulated

Re: [Mpls] protest

2003-01-13 Thread List Manager
Opposing war protestors in Minneapolis is fine, but advocating that certain people die is a violation of list rules against inflamed rhetoric. David Brauer List manager on 1/13/03 7:54 AM, James E. Jacobsen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I was trying to get someplace, attempting to t

Re: [Mpls] protest

2003-01-13 Thread KHarley471
In a message dated 1/13/2003 8:54:37 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I think who ever is organizing these kids to parade under these banners should be >the first to get killed in any future > terrorist activities. I am seriously considering a trip to Palestine, Mr. Jacob

Re: [Mpls] protest

2003-01-13 Thread Gypsycurse7
In a message dated 1/13/2003 7:59:15 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I think who ever is organizing these kids to parade under these > banners should be the first to get killed in any future terrorist > activities. They could go to Isreal where Saddam Hussien is paying f

[Mpls] protest

2003-01-13 Thread James E. Jacobsen
I was trying to get someplace, attempting to travel on Lake Street about noon Saturday and was badly delayed by the protesters taking up the whole street and blocking traffic. 2400 sounds about right. I think who ever is organizing these kids to parade under these banners sho

[Mpls] mpls protest organizers

2002-10-04 Thread James E Jacobsen
    The last war -in Yugoslavia area- resulted in no combat deaths at all.      The idea of equating an action now dealing with a wanna be Hitler- Sadam Hussien with Viet Nam is as antequated idealogically as it is technically.   For the Walter Mittys fantacizing themselv

[Mpls] Fw: mpls protest organizers

2002-10-04 Thread James E Jacobsen
The last war -in Yugoslavia area- resulted in no combat deaths at all. The idea of equating an action now dealing with a wanna be Hitler- Sadam Hussien with Viet Nam is as antequated idealogically as it is technically. For the Walter Mittys fantacizing themselves as groun