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Deborah Rosenstein
11 November 2009

Reports from TCIMC volunteers in Pittsburgh:

9/26: G20 Resistance Dispatch #4:  While World Leaders Fly Away, Riot Cops Blast Away at UPitt

9/25: Friday Photos from permitted "People's March" before attacks on anti-police brutality protesters and bystanders result in ~100 arrests, including a Twin Cities media activist (she has been released).
9/24: G20 Resistance Dispatch #3: "The People's Anger and the Property Destruction Debate Both Rage On"
9/24: Thursday Photos from "People's Uprising" unpermitted actions and police violence
9/22:  G20 Resistance Dispatch #2:  "The AIDS march, the picnic and the police"
9/22: Tuesday Photos from ACT UP march re G20/Obama's failure to fund AIDS prevention
9/21: G20 Resistance Dispatch #1: "Nobody Wants It Here"
Nigel Parry: From St. Paul to Pittsburgh: Citizen Media is Not a Crime

Twin Cities Indymedia volunteers (<--- that could be you!) are travelling to the upcoming G20 summit and resistance in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Just before the summit in which leaders of 20 wealthy nations will unaccountably make economic decisions affecting billions of people, Pittsburgh will also be host to a major coal industry conference.  And throughout the week, climate and economic justice activists from across the country, including from Minnesota, will seek to upstage the official story through marches, educational forums, tent cities, a climate camp and other tactics.

Those of us in the steel city will be regularly sending back photos, video and written reports about the real story--the one outside the David Lawrence Convention Center.  Check back to this post September 20-27 or to Pittsburgh Indymedia and G-Infinity Media at IndyPGH.org.  Stream the live G-Infinity radio broadcasts throughout the week, and follow @g20IMC or #g20IMC on twitter.

Are you going to Pittsburgh from the upper Midwest?  We want to hear your story!  Leave your contact info below or use our contact form to get in touch!

Noon Tuesday: Police in unmarked cars doing drive-bys and parking down the block from Rosemary's.

URGENT UPDATE: Help needed at Rosemary's at 3138 Clinton in Minneapolis.  GMAC offered Rosemary $5000 to leave her long-time home.  When she declined, GMAC said that they would file a trespassing complaint and send the police to evict her.   Police could arrive  at any time.  All kinds of support needed--media, solidarity, civil disobedience.

Cancelled: TAKE ACTION:  Tuesday morning at 9:30am meet at Rosemary's house--3138 Clinton-- then go together to the mayor's office at 10am to demand a just resolution to Rosemary's situation.

Related: MPR Update says police waiting for opinion of city attorney | Fighting foreclosures in North MPLS from TCDP 

Monday evening:  Ninety to a hundred people attended a candlelight vigil at Rosemary Williams's house. Religious folks and other community activists spoke.  "God opened the door," said one speaker, describing the occupation. 

Monday: 4th day of occupation; approx. 15 people stayed at the house last night; many more there this morning. | Article & Video from Fight Back News

Sunday Update: Press conference at Rosemary's house, 8am Monday.

The occupation at Rosemary Williams' home at 3138 Clinton in Minneapolis enters its second night tonight. On Friday night, about 20 people, including Rosemary Williams herself, spent the night at the home after a no trespassing order was given earlier in the day. At a 4pm press conference this rainy and humid Saturday, the usual crowd of activists from MN PPEHRC and the Coalition for a People's Bailout (twitter feed), bolstered by growing support and donations of food and supplies from neighbors, rallied to the defense of Williams' home. Some pushed for GMAC to finally negotiate; others concluded that the only option left is to defend the house with their bodies.

The question now is what the Minneapolis Police will do next. A police spokesman has said they'll respond if a trespassing complaint is received - but what that means is anyone's guess. For now, says Rosemary, "We can't give up, that's the bottom line. We have to band together to make this happen." People will continue to occupy the house around the clock.

Previously: Sheriffs Arrive, Leave

Event: Meet SOLIDARITY & DEFENSE

by MJ Essex, reposted from New Orleans Indymedia: In post-Katrina New Orleans, anarchist truths found fertile, if toxic grounds to take root and grow. New paths were walked on. Antiauthoritarian principles emerged as important guides for both reconstruction and the struggle against disaster capitalism. A million or more equally important stories can now be told about mutual aid, cooperation, subversion of authority, disruption of state and capitalist plans. And yet Brandon Darby's morality tale has become a media darling, due in no small part to his perfect and full adoption of his role as a state agent, regardless of whether it was official in 2006, or whether the FBI is still cutting him paychecks. We owe it to ourselves to tell these other stories of New Orleans, St. Paul and beyond.

Related: Months After RNC, 3 More Protesters Charged | Support the Texas 2 | CityPages: Meet Bob Fletcher

Twin Cities Indymedia has grown a lot since last year's coverage of the 2008 RNC.  After helping produce Terrorizing Dissent, we've begun to expand our editorial collective and coverage of various struggles in and around the occupied land called Minnesota.  As we move through the summer, we hope to expand our reach even further - and, since any Independent Media Center is what you make of it, need your help to do so! 

Start below by checking out a selection of featured stories from 2009 so far -- dozens stories from at least 16 authors (via the editorial collective and open publishing) on immigrant rights, the foreclosure crisis, resistance to occupation at home and abroad, and much more -- only a fraction of the content posted on TCIMC in the last 5 months.  Catch up on what you missed!

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