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Battle In Seattle
Headlines : Government
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The groups that have threatened to shut down the convention are not on the front lines of the legal challenge. But the coalition and its lawyers just happen to be demanding the route that anarchists need to facilitate their plans.

[Posted By ShiftShapers]
By Katherine Kirsten
Republished from The Star Tribune
Legal Challenge is in line with plans to disrupt GOP Convention

Elaborate plans are underway to encircle and “shut down” the Republican National Convention at St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center in September. The strategies and tactics involved could come straight from a guerrilla warfare manual.

Anarchist groups with ominous names — the RNC Welcoming Committee, Unconventional Action — have announced a “three-tier strategy” to cut off the Xcel Center. The steps include “blockading” streets and freeways, “immobilizing” delegates’ transportation and “blocking” bridges to impede delegates’ access to the center.

The plan also features a “swarm, seize, stay” strategy. After dividing the city into “sectors,” protesters propose to “seize space” through both “hard technical blockades” and “softer, more mobile blockades” such as congestion, according to anarchist websites.

Some demonstrators may chain themselves together in public thoroughfares, while others operate in “waves” designed to “spread out police both geographically and tactically.”

Last week, St. Paul city attorneys described these threats in documents filed in a federal lawsuit involving a permit for a march planned for Sept. 1, the convention’s first day. Between 50,000 and 100,000 demonstrators are expected to participate.

St. Paul officials have issued a permit that they say would allow protesters to march “within the very shadows of the glassed front” of the Xcel Center.

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