Posted on 05/29/2007 7:36:37 AM PDT by Minnesocold
The "Black Bloc" anarchists are getting twitchy and one can't seem to concentrate on her work - she fired off a Word doc from her work computer, threatening 2007 GOP convention delegates, ICE and Minneapolis police. The Word doc found its way to The Loyal Opposition Blog, who did some digging.
I received the following document in English and Spanish, and it’s origin has been subsequently verified using two independent sources:The RNC Welcoming Committee- a group of Twin Cities-based anarchists and anti-authoritarians formed to organize resistance to the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul- stands firmly with immigrant communities in opposing the recent wave of nativist repression led by the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) branch.
To those people impacted by the raids, to those people resisting this new wave of anti-immigrant activity: we would like to offer our bodies and our infrastructure in whatever way is most constructive. As community turnout on May 19th demonstrated, you are not alone. We are always ready and willing to support you in your struggle for justice; we maintain a politics of solidarity, and believe we have common ground with all targets of State and systemic repression.
To ICE and the Minneapolis Police Department: We want to make clear our opposition to the raids that occurred in South Minneapolis last weekend, to all raids, and to this system that denies certain people and their families their basic right to survival. We condemn the practices of both ICE and the MPD, recognizing that the raids weren’t a break with policy so much as a continuation of the long-standing law enforcement tradition of terrorizing communities, for the sake of maintaining an unjust social order. Our communities have always been terrorized by law enforcement, whatever their initials; this terror is furthered daily, on the streets, in our workplaces, even in our homes. We know that it will continue- tomorrow, next week, at the RNC in 2008, and into the future- as long as our communities are not able to sustain and defend themselves. Thus, we are committed to building alternatives that render law enforcement agencies obsolete, and in the meantime to resisting State terror however it manifests itself, by whatever means are available to us.
www.nornc.org
rnc08 (at) riseup.net
After reading this Word doc, Loyal Opposition looked up the "properties."
This arrived both in text and as a Microsoft Word document. Microsoft Word embeds information in the document that identifies the source of the document. On a Mac, if you choose File>Properties… the Summary tab appears and you retrieve the Author and the Company.In this case, the Author is Luce Guillen-Givins and the Company is RCTA, which are the initials for the Resource Center for The Americas. Miss Guillen-Givins appears to be an employee of the Center.
Is this it?
Resource Center of the Americas
3019 Minnehaha Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55406-1931
(612) 276-0788
Based on this group’s mission, she will probably be promoted.
I’m amazed the RCTA is still in existence.
This group (back in the 80’s) were major apologists for Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas.
If I recall correctly, they occasionally sent useful idiots down there to assist in the harvest of Nicaragua’s coffee crop.
They also supported the FMLN in El Salvador and thought our policy towards Fidel Castro was hateful.
Reads like someone’s needle is stuck permanently in the baleful, boring (even at the time) SDS rhetoric of the vanished Sixties. (I don’t mind her offering her body but I’d need to see a picture first . . . I suspect she’s no Jane Fonda and never was.)
Resource Center of the Americas
Yes, that's the place. I expect them to get a few "howlers" today. ;-)
I love these groups. If one of their members gets arrested for blocking traffic, they are being oppressed by the state. If Castro jails a dissident for criticizing the government, he was asking for it.
Sounds like she is a member of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Laborite Party.
Give em hell FReepers!!!!!!
Thus, we are committed to building alternatives....
What do you know an anarchist into building something?
..in the meantime to resisting State terror however it manifests itself, by whatever means are available to us.
That last just negates any positive perception.
The RNC Welcoming Committee- ... stands firmly with immigrant communities in opposing the recent wave of nativist repression led by the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) branch.
To those people impacted by the raids, to those people resisting this new wave of anti-immigrant activity: we would like to offer our bodies and our infrastructure in whatever way is most constructive.
*****
Is this a confirmation that ICE is actually working? We would never know it from Big Media.
Looks like she's getting in early reservations for a stay at the "Chainlink Suites" in 2008!
Exactly!
Great post. Thanks to Nachman HaLevi.
"STrib: Park Police Clamp Down on Skinny Dipping
"Luce Guillen-Givins, a 19-year-old from lakeless Arizona, had never skinny-dipped before. But on July 19, she was one of the four women charged with being in a city park after the 10 p.m. closing time and with being improperly attired. That last charge was a no-brainer, since the women's clothes were piled on the beach when the Minneapolis Bod Squad roared up."
And use your entrenching tool..
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