Host status snares state delegation some choice lodgings
(see also - List and map of delegate hotels)
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Last update: April 7, 2008 - 9:21 PM
Republican party officials have resolved one of the fiercest competitions in the run-up to their national convention in St. Paul, one that has nothing to do with who the nominee will […]

Protesters sue for right to march on RNC
By RANDY FURST / StarTribune
startribune.com
updated 1:30 p.m. CT, Mon., March. 24, 2008
Local antiwar groups filed suit in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis today seeking an injunction to order the city of St. Paul to grant a march route for a demonstration on Sept. 1, the first day of […]

GOP attendees will find beefed-up networks for phones, blogs, video
St. Paul Pioneer Press
By Leslie Brooks Suzukamo
lsuzukamo@pioneerpress.com
Article Last Updated: 03/24/2008 08:58:12 AM CDT
The broadband locusts are coming.
The 45,000 delegates, organizers, bloggers and reporters expected at the Republican National Convention from Sept. 1-4 will be toting bandwidth-eating cell phones, BlackBerrys and laptops.
Obsessive bloggers like Michael Brodkorb will […]

This sexual assault policy should be seen as a work in progress, and our intention is to help lay the groundwork for continuing resistance to rape culture in our community, both during the RNC and beyond. We want this policy to be useful and empowering for everyone it affects, and encourage feedback and input […]

historic “St. Paul Principles” agreed on by key twin cities groups
key groups have signed onto what is being dubbed the “St. Paul Principles” of unity for organizing resistance to the 2008 rnc. the principles allow for stronger unity to confront the rnc and help to ensure respect for the sept 1 permitted march by […]

Map here: http://tinyurl.com/59hmlm 
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 12:22:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Republican National Convention 2008
For Immediate Release
Monday, April 7, 2008 Contact: Matt Burns
(651) 467-2008
GOP Convention Names Party Headquarters, Delegation Hotels
Saint Paul’s Hilton Garden Inn to Host Minn. Delegation; Hyatt Regency Minneapolis to Welcome Republican National Committee
(SAINT PAUL, Minn.) - (SAINT PAUL, Minn.) - With less than […]

The RNC Welcoming Committee wants to extend feelings of solidarity to those of you organizing against Minnesota’s upcoming sesquicentennial celebrations.
We often take the opportunity in solidarity statements to talk about the things we share with the intended recipient- here, our common opposition to a government founded on the genocide of native peoples, and […]

Over Labor Day Weekend, 2007, anarchists and anti-authoritarians from all over occupied Amerikkka gathered in Minnesota’s Twin Cities. The object was to discuss the 2008 Republican National Convention and hash out a framework for anarchist resistance. Through a process of consensus in the main strategizing session and the action breakout that followed, attendees […]

Dear Friends and Allies in the Twin Cities,
Over the course of the first weekend in May, from May 2nd-4th, several hundred activists from around the country are converging in the Twin Cities for a strategizing session hosted by the RNC Welcoming Committee (RNC-WC). This event, the pReNC 5.3, will allow people organizing around a […]

The deadline for RSVPs for the pReNC 5.3 has been extended to April 25th. The pReNC 5.3 is the second national gathering for planning radical resistance to the 2008 Republican National Convention. It will take place on May 3rd in the Twin Cities.
We are making a public call for proposals to be considered at the […]