Twin Cities Daily Planet:
Marv Davidov: still activist after all these years
Green Hat Uprising: NLG tries to halt police raids. The Guild has 100 lawyers working on the protest-related raids and arrests.
One big march
RNC protesters being arrested in downtown St. Paul at 5:20 pm

The Minnesota Independent:
St. Paul Police Chief: It's game day, finally. In which he compares this to preparing for a wedding. No kidding.
Convention cops get ready for day one: paddy wagons by Penske
Getting ready for the main march on the RNC (slideshow)
Iraq Vets Against the War march kicks off RNC day one (with slideshow)
Iraq war veteran speaks out against the war (audio)
Veterans for Peace march slideshow
Activist communications center raided, 9 arrested on conspiracy
An RNC serenade to mounted police
Tear gas fired into crowd at Kellogg, MnIndy reporter hit
Explosion at protest, polite quiet about unmarked black truck. Notes unconfirmed suspicions that sound grenades or rubber bullets were fired from an unmarked police truck. But only one round?
Police, National Guard fire tear gas at Black bloc protesters who blocked a street, broke police car windows
100 or so people are being detained on Shepard Road by the Xcel

Campaign Silo:
Connecting the dots on the Minnesota police state. The St. Paul and Denver police each received a $50 million budget through the Dept. of Homeland Security.
So who are these oh-so-scary people in the streets of St. Paul?
Voices from the streets of St. Paul
Pepper spray and rubber bullets in the streets
Amy Goodman arrested, UpTake team avoids arrest, tear gas being used on children

The UpTake has been very, very busy:
Huge amount of reporters covering protest
Protesters vs Police
Protest and confrontation
Largest protest at the RNC
In the RNC Free Speech Zone
In the chaos of the protest
McCain refuses to meet with Iraq Veterans Against the War
Lawyers arrested
Anarchists chant
Setting up for a protester charge
Iraq veterans against the war
RNC Security response: rubber bullets and smoke bombs
Explosions at the RNC protest
Police gather in riot gear
UpTake team surrounded by police
National Guard assembles at RNC protest
St. Paul press conference
And still more on their YouTube channel and Qik site. A girl can only link so much.

Daily Kos: I was gassed by the St. Paul Police
Twin Cities Sidewalks: Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher’s police state
Glen Greenwald continues to blog the protests at Salon. Last update was yesterday, though.
Federal Government involved in raids on protesters.

Local media can no longer entirely ignore the story, and it led the 6 pm WCCO broadcast after being buried a bit in the 5:00. National media is covering it only slightly.

Local Media:
PiPress:
Police, National Guard fire tear gas into protest group (with slide show, which includes shots of bicycle police beating back a line of protesters with their bicycle frames)
Raw footage from the protests downtown
WCCO (NBC):
Democracy Now confronts cops about arrests
RNC protesters meet mounted police
St. Paul police update on RNC protests
Day 1 of RNC marked by police in riot gear
KSTP (ABC):
100 arrested during RNC protests

National Media:
A small link on the front of CNN.com: Dozens arrested outside of Republican convention
Yahoo has picked up the story.
Still nothing on the front of the online New York Times.

Tags: stpaul, rnc, rncprotests