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• Press Release: City Council Approves Back-Room Deal to Strip Away Crucial Protections for Demonstrators

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• CUAPB VP Beaten and Arrested During Copwatch--Call for Special Action
• Rally at City Hall to Demand Protections for Protesters
• Police and Protester at the RNC: Minneapolis Struggles with Plan

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• Pack the Courtroom: Support Demands for Permits to March on the RNC
• National Lawyers Guild Summer Picnic
• Resisting the RNC: Town Hall Organizing Meeting
• Don't Let the Minneapolis City Council Shoot Down Our Rights!
• Complaints to Internal Affairs vs. CUAPB

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• Minneapolis City Council Endorses Rubber Bullets for Protesters
• Bad Outcome in Maria Inamagua Death Probe: Lack of Medical Care Excused

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• City Council Gives Cops Green Light to Use Rubber Bullets on Protesters, Delays Action on Protecting Protesters from Police Repression
• Urgent Call for Copwatchers at Critical Mass

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• Restore Our Protections Against Police Repression of Demonstrators
• Typhoon of Repression Warnings: The RNC Should Just Stay Home

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• Community Report on Internal Affairs Audit
• The CRA Board that Almost Wasn't
• Efforts to Overturn Lurking Ordinance Continue
• Famine! Pestilence! Plague! and Other Excuses City Council Using to Clamp Down on Free Speech
• Free Speech Violations Already Starting in St. Paul
• Police State Update: DC Cops Blockade Whole Neighborhood
• Major Victory in Taser Case

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• Protest RNC March Permit Appeal
• Legal Observer and Know Your Rights Training
• Postville: Largest Immigration Raid in US History
• What You Can Do to Help

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• Stand Up for the Right to Protest (While You Still Can)
• Stamp Out the Lurking Ordinance

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• Keep Up the Fight for Free Speech
• Newport Rally a Smashing Success
• One Down, Two to Go--Help Us Get Justice for the Critical Mass Arrestees