We have unlawful search and seizure. We have unlawful arrest without probably cause.... Mass arrest and detention without probable cause.... Then you have excessive force. Spraying people point blank range with mace who aren't resisting and who are peaceful is excessive force. Beating people in jail is excessive force... Those all should be criminal complaints. They'll never be charged as such by any prosecutor.

-- Bruce Nestor, National Lawyers Guild

Civil disobedience reframed as 'terrorism' - and squashed. The activists who rallied in Minneapolis/St. Paul outside the Republican National Convention were harrassed, gassed, and charged with "conspiracy to riot in furtherance of terrorism." The Glass Bead Collective, Twin Cities Indymedia, and other independent media activists have released a new film, 'Terrorizing Dissent', an exposé of events at the 2008 RNC. They are screening the film all over the US - and it's available free online -- check the website TerrorizingDissent.org