What Goes on Outside the Convention Hall in St. Paul

If you don't know about "Democracy Now!", Amy Goodman's award winning daily newscast you should.  Available on public radio and public/satellite T.V. the show gives great insight into what Zinn might call the continually unfolding People's History of the World.  They are more concerned with protest outside of conventions then speeches within them, as evidanced by where two producers and Goodman herself were when they met up with some of St. Paul's finest.  Bloodied noses and felony rioting charges followed, followed the next day by footage of the police's assault on them being aired on Democracy now.  They were not alone, hundreds of protestors were arrested during the RNC.  The St. Paul police were quite aggressive and seemed to use crowd control tools like mace quite liberally around the RNC (sorry for the pun).

Didn't stop Iraq Vets Against the War and Code Pink from interrupting McCain's "green screen" portion of his acceptance speech...