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http://tc.indymedia.org/2009/jan/friday-all-wall-7-charges-dismissed

Friday morning, Ramsey County District Court Judge Michael Fetsch dismissed all charges against the "Wall 7," some of the first activists to go to trial in connection with the RNC. The seven activists from the Northeast were all facing multiple trumped-up misdemeanor counts after being penned in by a Mobile Field Force and SPPD bicycle unit at 6th and Wall Streets on September 1, 2008.

Message from RNC Media list:

hey everyone,

at today's CRASS assembly there was a long discussion about the prospects of civil litigation. CRASS agreed to do an action on Feb. 24 around a mass filing of notices of claim. Basically, a notice of claim is a nonbinding notice that you may soon be filing a lawsuit and why, but it doesn't have to list the specific type of suit or require you to actually sue, and you don't need a lawyer to do it. The NLG is organizing notice of claim workshops to take place before the 24th, which is 180 days (the maximum allowed time to file) from August 29, the date of the convergence center raid.

By Mandeep Dhillon - January 8, 2009

A companera of the movement in Huajuapan de León, in the state of Oaxaca says that they are “Mixtercos” - that is stubborn, stubborn, stubborn.. That they fight for everything. But that being stubborn has also allowed them to survive more than 500 years of attempts to extinguish them at the hands of colonizers that pushed their way through the Mixteca in different forms – the Spanish, cruel and despotic governments, neo-liberals and foreign investors. The constitution of 1917 never included the first peoples of this territory as it supposedly opened the doors of freedom for the Mexican population. Neither was this freedom realized through the San Andres Accords of 1996 between the Mexican government and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) – a further attempt to reclaim that liberty which had been quashed for hundreds of years – and once again denied with the failure of government to honor its word.

From Narconews.com

From the Festival of Dignified Rage, the organizations, collectives, and individual participants strongly condemn the horrendous massacre perpetrated by the Israeli military against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip

RNC8 now face four felony charges in amended complaint.

Lawyers for the RNC 8 reportedly received a letter today from the Ramsey County Attorney's office amending the complaint against them. The new complaint reportedly lists the charges as follows:

Count 1 - conspiracy to riot in the second degree in furtherance of terrorism (the original charge)
Count 2 - conspiracy to riot in the second degree (without terrorism enhancement)
Count 3 - conspiracy to damage property in furtherance of terrorism
Count 4 - conspiracy to damage property (without terrorism enhancement)