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On this page, we will post information about important contingents, feeder marches and other meet-ups planned for the September 1 march. If your group is planning to meet up and march together, please send your information to us, to be posted here. You may also contact us for information about locations that may be open for contingents to assemble at or near the State Capitol. Send your inquiries or announcements to info@marchonrnc.org.

Contingent will gather on the West side of the Capitol Mall...Look for the yellow balloons!

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Este 1 de Septiembre los Republicanos tendrán su convención para nombrar a John McCain como su candidato a la presidencia de los Estados Unidos. La convención tendrá lugar en el Centro Xcel Energy en San Pablo, Minnesota. Los republicanos y su liderazgo nos han usado a nosotros los inmigrantes como piezas para jugar en su campaña política y en su guerra. Muchos de nuestros jóvenes están muriendo en una guerra por mantener el control del petróleo en otro país.

Sisters and Brothers:

The Republican National Convention will take place in St. Paul, MN beginning on Labor Day, 2008. Choosing to begin on Labor Day is an insult to all working people who have been suffering under Republican policies. We need to join the thousands that will be out in the street. As the economy is falling apart Washington continues to fund the war and bailout corporations rather than helping working people who are losing jobs to outsourcing and their houses to predatory lenders. Twin Cities unions are organizing a labor contingent for the September 1 march.

The Colombia Action Network is issuing the following call for protests at John McCain's campaign events and at the Republican National Convention, September 1-4 in St. Paul, MN. McCain arrived in Colombia on Tuesday and is promoting his close relationship to death squad leader Colombian President Uribe as a campaign issue.

Hands Off Colombia! End Military Aid to Colombia Now!

On September 1, the Republican Party will be in St. Paul, Minnesota for an
international media spectacle of the highest magnitude. More than 45,000
people, including 15,000 media employees, are expected to be on hand for
the 2008 Republican National Convention (RNC). Additionally, in protest,
tens of thousands of people will be outside of the convention. On that
day, Labor Day, the first in a series of marches to demonstrate against
the policies of the Republican Party will be held (for more information on
the large permitted march on 9/1, see: http://www.marchonrnc.org/).

The Anti-Capitalist Bloc will join the mobilizations throughout the RNC. Capitalism thrives on war, and it is the inherent character of capitalism that is creating the current economic crisis. The Anti-Capitalist Bloc advocates an economic system controlled collectively and democratically, and an end to the racism, sexism and violence of the capitalist system.

Join Us Under the Red & Black flags of the Anti-Capitalist Bloc! For more information: anticapbloc@iww.org.

Hey Twin Ports, North Shore, South Shore, Iron Range, Border Country... the Northland Anti-War Coalition (Duluth/Superior) and the Grand Rapids Peace Circle invite all northern Minnesotans and Wisconsinites (and heck, Yoopers too) to march on the RNC as one unified and impressively hardy bunch. We might have a reputation for being kinda reserved, but we ain't standing on the sidelines as our children are sent to war, our planet is plundered and more and more working people struggle just to get by. Let's show the Republicans and the world what we're made of, eh?

September 1st is an opportunity to stand together as a faith community for the ideals of peace, justice, human rights and ecological wisdom. Meet folks from Unitarian Universalist churches around the Twin Cities.

We'll gather at 11 am on the Capitol lawn near the corner of Rice and John Ireland. Our specific meeting place is the Roy Wilkins Memorial just north of that corner...and not to be confused with the auditorium several blocks away.

For more information or to order a t-shirt, please contact Todd Seabury-Kolod (toddseabury@visi.com)