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..
Are the “raids” she is referring to in this letter actually the slavery/forced prostitution ring bust that occurred in South Minneapolis a few weeks back?
bump
LOL! (There are only a few of us left!)
Geez, remember when they used to teach stuff like engineering, business, and medicine at colleges?
They are indeed. Resource Center for the Americas (Luce Guillien Givins' employer) headed up a campaign to protest.
* Minnesota-based Open Borders organization
* Supports the Declaration of Civil Rights for Immigrants, which restricts the federal government's authority to detain and deport illegal aliens who have committed crimesThe Resource Center of the Americas (RCA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is "to create social change both in the United States and Latin America." It agitates for unrestricted immigration across U.S. borders and amnesty for illegal immigrants already residing in the United States. It opposes American foreign policies in general, particularly the embargo against Cuba and the current U.S. military engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In 2003 RCA joined likeminded organizations in successfully lobbying the Minneapolis City Council to pass a "sanctuary" regulation forbidding social workers, police, and other city employees from inquiring into the residency status of suspected illegal aliens. RCA Executive Director Frank Vardeman stated that this ordinance "makes clear that city employees will not act as intelligence agents or enforcement arms for the national administration's anti-immigrant policies."
RCA supports the "Declaration of Civil Rights for Immigrants," which calls for similar sanctuary policies across the United States, advocates the granting of driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, and seeks to restrict the federal government's authority to detain or deport illegal aliens who have committed crimes in the U.S.
On September 13, 2006, RCA posted on its website an article titled "We Are Not Illegals," which demanded that Americans "start humanizing the face of immigration now!" "This is not about what should the people at the center of the immigration debate be called," it said, "but about what THE PEOPLE CALL THEMSELVES [emphasis in original] -- We are not 'illegals.' No Somos 'ilegales.' We demand that all media stop imposing the terminology 'illegal immigrants' on us and our fellow immigrant people."
RCA is a member organization of the Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers (MAP), which opposes the war on terror, endorses global disarmament, and accuses the U.S. of having incited whatever terrorist attacks are carried out against it. RCA's fellow MAP members include Friends for a Non-Violent World, the National Lawyers Guild, the Palestine-Israel Justice Project , Nonviolent Peaceforce, Pax Christi, Veterans for Peace, Witness For Peace, Women Against Military Madness, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
In RCA's view, the "global economy" is "a system in which a minority flourishes while millions of people lack adequate food, shelter and employment." RCA was a signatory to a 1999 petition of self-identified "civil society" organizations that opposed globalization, big business in general, and "any effort to expand the powers of the World Trade Organization (WTO) through a new comprehensive round of trade liberalization." A notable cosigner of this petition was Global Exchange Director Medea Benjamin, who was a chief organizing force behind the November 1999 riots in Seattle, where some 50,000 protesters destroyed millions of dollars worth of property in their effort to shut down the WTO Conference in that city.
RCA is funded by the Ben and Jerry's Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Minneapolis Foundation
Take off your top for peace!
If they want to render law enforcement agencies obsolete they might want to check out Jim Bell's theory: Assassination Politics.
Huh... Ford Foundation. Aren’t they the same ones who support the homosexuals? If so, that gives me one more reason to not buy their products.
The Ford Foundation doesn’t have products, AFAIK. It just gives money from income of its endowment funds, started in 1936, to various liberal causes.
It divested some (most?) of its stock in Ford Motor Company between 1956 and 1974. It is unclear, from the following, if any significant portion of its funds now come from Ford Motors. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Foundation
Thanks for clarification.
New York police knew how to prevent chaos at the ‘04 Republican convention. ‘08 in the Twin Cities will be another story. It will get ugly.
The powers that be in Minneapolis will prevent any serious response by the cops. That’s my fear, anyway.
Translation: How dare the serfs rise up and tell us that they don’t want to pay for our mascots.
Funding by Soros, Ford or Heinz?
They seem to be really close to Macalester College.
I think it’s highly poignant that this happened ON THE SAME DAY the g.w. bush began to tout his so-called immigration “reforms.” When I googled the name “guillen,” the first hit was an “Afro-Peruvian poet.” How do we know that “Miss Guillen-Givins” is not here, “illegally”? granted, the rest of the hits were for Baseball “players,” but at least they are contributing constructively to our society and entertainment industry. This abuse of our country by illegal immigrants makes me “Sick”. They’re in ur country, denigrating ur laws and values.
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