[Onthebarricades] Fw: Fwd: i-witness video emergency press statement from the RNC

[Andy]

Re: Fwd: i-witness video emergency press statement from th


Seems that the mayor's office is not taking calls - I was just disconnected Mary - I wonder if calling local TV stations is another strategy ? - greg


At 3:32 PM -0500 8/30/08, Mary Patten wrote:
  from a friend in St. Paul... please read and make a call if you can...


  thanks,


  MP




    Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:55:10 -0600
    From: "rachel mattson" <rachmattson at gmail.com>
    To: rachmattson at gmail.com
    Subject: i-witness video emergency press statement from the RNC

    friends:


    i'm forwarding you this emergency email from Eileen. i just happened to NOT  be at the house when the police showed up, but quite a few of the i-witness people (and a few friends) are inside the house with her. they've all been under house arrest for several hours.

    please contact the mayor of St. Paul (information at the bottom of Eileen's email) if you have a minute. and keep your ears posted! (check out http://iwitnessvideo.info/ for ongoing reports -- if, that is, we have time to post them.) there's lots of other ridiculous shit happening out here, and we'll be posting updates as they come.

    love and thanks.
    rachel

    ------------

    This is Eileen Clancy, one of the founders of I-Witness Video, a NYC-based
    video collective that's in St. Paul to document the policing of the protests around
    this week's Republican National Convention.

    The house where I-Witness Video is staying in St. Paul has been surrounded
    by police. We have locked all the doors. We have been told that if we
    leave we will be detained. One of our people who was caught outside is
    being detained in handcuffs in front of the house. The police say that
    they are waiting to get a search warrant. More than a dozen police are
    wielding firearms, including one St. Paul officer with a long gun, which
    someone told me is an M-16.

    We are suffering a preemptive video arrest. For those that don't know,
    I-Witness Video was remarkably successful in exposing police misconduct
    and outright perjury by police during the 2004 RNC. Out of 1800 arrests,
    at least 400 were overturned based solely on video evidence which
    contradicted sworn statements which were fabricated by police officers.
    It seems that the house arrest we are now under and the possible threat of
    the seizure of our computers and video cameras is a result of the 2004
    success.

    We are asking the public to contact the office of St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman at 651-266-8510 to
    stop this house arrest, this gross intimidation by police officers, and the
    detention of media activists and reporters. The Ma

    - Eileen Clancy


    --

    Dr. Rachel Mattson
    917. 216.1426

    * * *
    check out www.howhistoryfeels.blogspot.com




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  Mary Patten
  Associate Professor
  Department of Film/Video/New Media
  School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  112 S. Michigan, #512-G
  Chicago, IL 60603
  email: mpatte at artic.edu
  voice: 001.312.345.3684
  fax: 001.312.541.8070




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