From:
Andy Driscoll
Date:
Jul 08 00:27 UTC
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Wednesday, July 9 11:00 AM:
THE REPUBLICANS ARE COMING! Part I - Who's Ready, Who's Not?
KFAI Radio, 90.3 Minneapolis /106.7 St. Paul / <email obscured>
A CivicMedia/Minnesota production
The Republican National Convention (RNC) has been on our local agenda for a
couple of years and dozens of groups and agencies have been preparing to
accommodate or confront the 10,000-15,000 conventioneers, media hounds,
protesters, lawyers and police personnel will descend on St. Paul's Xcel
Center September 1st for four days of the chaotic crowning of the party's
Presidential nominee, confronted by protests and potential clashes of all
kinds and a series of counter-convention activities at various locations
through the Twin Cities.
Who's preparing for what and why? TTT's ANDY DRISCOLL and LYNNELL MICKELSEN
bring into the KFAI studios representatives of the wide diversity of
organizations of varying agendas for the coming visitors and query them on
their strategies and planned tactics for participating in what many consider
will be a circus they'd rather not be around for. We talk with convention
organizers, arts, peace and protest leaders, law enforcement and just plain
folks over several show to clarify for listeners what we can expect to see
on the news each night.
GUESTS:
SEGMENT I: Walker Art Center's UnConvention Projects
> ALLISON HERRERA - Community Programs Coordinator and Liaison, Walker Art
> Center
>
> OTHERS INVOLVED IN THE UNCONVENTION - TBA
SEGMENT II: ACLU-Minnesota/National Lawyers Guild (NLG)
> BRUCE NESTOR Immigration Rights Attorney, President, NLG
>
> CHUCK SAMUELSON Executive Director, American Civil Liberties
> Union-Minnesota
>
> GENA BERGLUND Attorney, Member, NLG
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