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protestrnc2008.org Everyone who wants to end the U.S. war on Iraq should join the massive march planned for September 1, 2008 - the first day of the Republican National Convention. Inside the convention hall, the Xcel Center, the Republicans will nominate a candidate who wants to continue the war.

Outside, tens of thousands will say "No!" The *Coalition to March on the RNC and Stop the War *invites you - activists and organizers form all progressive movements - to join us for a national conference to help organize the September 1 march. We will also discuss other plans for protest at the Republican National Convention.

The people of Colombia, like the people of Iraq, need us in the streets protesting at the Republican Convention. We need to stop the U.S. sponsored war in their country, to stop spending working peoples tax dollars to prop up a corrupt narco-trafficking regime. The American public is increasingly aware of the U.S. atrocities in Iraq and becoming more adamantly anti-war. This public outrage will manifest itself at the RNC. We have an opportunity to educate the 100,000 plus people who will come to St. Paul, MN to demonstrate at the RNC about how the U.S.' effort in Iraq is not the only example of this country's quest for empire causing death and destruction.

Activists from the Coalition to March on the RNC to Stop the War, the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee and the Colombia Action Network are organizing a workshop to discuss the importance of a massive anti-war march on the first day of the Republican National Convention (September 1, 2008). This workshop will include Q&A and discussion about the demonstration and other events at the RNC. All those interested in taking action against the Republican agenda of war and repression are encouraged to attend. (For more information check out protestrnc2008.org)

At about 4pm on 27th September 2007, ANDRES DAMIAN FLOREZ
RODRIGUEZ (son of JOSE DOMINGO FLOREZ, a worker at a Coca-Cola bottli ng plant and a leader of the trade union SINALTRAINAL) was returning from college to his home at No 204-102, 38th Avenue in the Andes barrio of Floridablanca in Santander when he was accosted by three individuals from a black van, they were carrying arms, communications radios and were wearing balaclavas. The three men took Andres in the van by force, threw him on the vehicle floor and started hitting him.

The Bush Administration is starting a new trial against Colombian revolutionary Ricardo Palmera on August 20th. The Colombia Action Network calls for its supporters to join the National Committee to Free Ricardo Palmera's picket at the D.C. Federal Court Building to demand Palmera's immediate release. Palmera's supporters plan to picket the courts prior to jury selection.