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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I haven’t got the heart to tell them they’re protesting the wrong convention.
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.
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
Wasn’t there a TV movie about a nuke set off in Charlotte, or was that Charleston?
The movie “Special Report” was set in Charleston. Full movie used to be available on You Tube.
Sorry, it was “Special Bulletin”, a made for TV movie from 1983.
Southerners don’t cotton to that hippie crap.
Pray for America
Making bombs?
Queering Occupy Wall Street
How does that happen?
Radical Women
I've got enough stories to fill a book...
I think they need to demand that all the RAT millionaires give up their money. We should encourage that.
I don’t understand why they aren’t having their convention in Havana. It is the perfect place.
One molotov cocktail thrown, could start an epic riot. Hmmmm, subverting the subversives.
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