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DNC protesters meet to discuss tactics, preparation
Charlotte Observer ^ | 8/18/12 | Meghan Cooke

Posted on 08/18/2012 5:21:52 PM PDT by Libloather

DNC protesters meet to discuss tactics, preparation
Demonstrator group heads met to discuss preparation
By Meghan Cooke
The Charlotte Observer
Modified: Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012

Demonstrators who plan to march through uptown Charlotte during the Democratic National Convention met Saturday to prepare for what could happen to them during possibly the largest protest in city history.

About 25 people representing groups that will make up the Coalition to March on Wall Street South gathered just northeast of uptown in a building on East 15th Street – a location they call their “convergence space” or “solidarity center.”

They discussed possible encounters with police during an “anti-repression” workshop Saturday. Ayende Alcala, a member of the Occupy Charlotte group, said the coalition is planning and promoting a peaceful march, but they’re preparing for all possibilities.

“We don’t know what to expect,” Alcala said, adding that some marchers have never been involved in a protest and others have never participated in one so large. “In case there is violence, we have to protect ourselves.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012dncconvention; 2012rncconvention; charlotte; convention; dnc; protest; usefulidiots
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To: Dallas59

I haven’t got the heart to tell them they’re protesting the wrong convention.


21 posted on 08/18/2012 7:34:20 PM PDT by Nachoman (I HOPE we CHANGE presidents.)
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To: Malone LaVeigh

Charlotte isn’t NASCAR. There’s a sizable liberal artsy-fartsy district just east of downtown, and enough muzzies to make Six Flags host Muslim-only days. Add immigrant & multiethnic politics & you’ve got a rather combustible mix. And unlike New York City, Charlotte is easy to get into & out of in a hurry, good logistics for bused-in rent-a-mobs.

Charlotte 2012 could easily resemble Chicago 1968.


22 posted on 08/18/2012 7:36:23 PM PDT by elcid1970 (Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind. Deus vult!)
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To: Dallas59

and most of these groups all are the same people. A few months ago someone on here posted how these grous had the same office, had the same phone number and were just a small group of loons.

Typical lefty nuts, they try and make it out to the public and media that they’re millions but infact they are just a couple of thousand around the country but collect money through diffferent name groups


23 posted on 08/18/2012 7:42:26 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: elcid1970

Wasn’t there a TV movie about a nuke set off in Charlotte, or was that Charleston?


24 posted on 08/18/2012 8:00:24 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: VanShuyten

The movie “Special Report” was set in Charleston. Full movie used to be available on You Tube.


25 posted on 08/18/2012 8:09:49 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Sorry, it was “Special Bulletin”, a made for TV movie from 1983.


26 posted on 08/18/2012 8:14:30 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Southerners don’t cotton to that hippie crap.

Pray for America


27 posted on 08/18/2012 8:37:50 PM PDT by bray (The Gummit didn't make my business, God did!)
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To: Dallas59
Labor for Palestine

Making bombs?

Queering Occupy Wall Street

How does that happen?

Radical Women

I've got enough stories to fill a book...

28 posted on 08/18/2012 8:41:24 PM PDT by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
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To: Libloather

I think they need to demand that all the RAT millionaires give up their money. We should encourage that.


29 posted on 08/18/2012 8:46:11 PM PDT by doug from upland (Just in case, it has been reserved: www.TheBitchIsBack2012.com)
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To: Libloather

I don’t understand why they aren’t having their convention in Havana. It is the perfect place.


30 posted on 08/18/2012 8:47:05 PM PDT by doug from upland (Just in case, it has been reserved: www.TheBitchIsBack2012.com)
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One molotov cocktail thrown, could start an epic riot. Hmmmm, subverting the subversives.


31 posted on 08/19/2012 1:24:00 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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