so, I am really excited, I have been organizing for months around the conventions. And two weeks ago, I was talking to a lot of people who were interested in going to the RNC, which is shaping up to be the most militant and probably most effective mass mobilization in a long time.

I am leaving in a week to go to the DNC  and then to the RNC. Its gonna be an amazing event. I just can feel it in my bones.

I guess the reason why I am excited is unlike the Seattle riots, where only an isolated amount of people understand globalization, and the effects on the third world. That institutions like the World Trade Organization, Group of 8, and World  bank/International Monetary Fund. Everyone and their grandma understand how fucked up the Republicans have been for the past 8 years. Mind you not everyone understands that the ability to have such rampant abuse of power has always been there and that the democrats are just as bad.

So, the ability to reach more people, demonstrate that there are alternatives to voting and taking baby steps that we can have revolutions and can have real democracy.

Another thing that I am excited is a major motion film called battle in Seattle is coming out soon and another movie about Abby Hoffman a member of WU and Anarchists.

The only reason why we wont win this is locally failing to create exposure for local revolutionary and radical movements. That we dont locally challenge oppression or build visibility of local anarchists projects or in Frederick actually start local anarchists projects. (that means people need to shut the fuck up and actually organize it takes an actual activist work ethic to get things done..there are to many of us identifying as anarchists and not enough actually getting done minus some wheat pasting)

So, for me to witness this, and see these hopefully positive steps for the Anarchists movement makes me really happy that maybe we can have one day society based around Freedom, direct democracy, cooperation and mutual aid.

Interested in going to the RNC?

We have a meeting at the library at 2:00 PM. I believe we will be leaving on August 30th and coming back September 5th. There is gonna be a regional meet up at Charm City Art Space at 7:00 on Wednesday. Where we will be adopting a sector.

Well, alright here is the deal:
-We have a van which can sit 15 people I think its gonna be about 40-50 dollars per person. Depending on how much I can get to get together from a yard sale and a party.

-There have been two strategies kinda created from the PreNC and the PreNC .5

the first PRENC one established goals:
“Tier One: Establish 15-20 blockades, utilizing a diversity of tactics, creating an inner and outer ring around St. Paul’s Excel Center, where the RNC is to take place.

Tier Two: Immobilize the delegates’ transportation infrastructure, including the busses that are to convey them.

Tier Three: Block the five western bridges connecting the Twin Cities.”

Alright and the PreNC 5.3 established

the swarm sieze stay strategy which created sectors of down town st. paul

“1. Move into/around Downtown St. Paul via swarms of varying sizes, from multiple directions, and with diverse tactical intentions.
2. Seize space through both hard (e.g., lockboxes) and soft (e.g., congestion), fixed and mobile, blockading methods.
3. Stay engaged with the situation in downtown St. Paul as long as necessary. Regroup. Reinforce.”

you can look at the different maps here:
https://lists. riseup. net/www/d_read/rnc08/WCSite/sectormap. jpg

and here are the descriptions of each sector
Sector One: Northeast corner of Downtown St. Paul. Mostly condos, with a few churches and small businesses. Contains several freeway off-ramps and overpasses.

Sector Two: Southeast corner of Downtown St. Paul. Contains two bridge entrances, Kellogg Blvd. E., Shepard/The Great River/Warner Rd. Bordered on the South by the Mississippi River; Includes the bluff and and the narrow riverfront area just below it.

Sector Three: Southwest riverside section. Includes Eastbound Shepard Rd., and many parking ramps and lots, back allies, and parks. Primarily residential, with lower-income area starting as you head West from Irvine Park.

Sector Four: Southwest I-35E section. Contains several freeway off-ramps. Also contains a hospital, with some businesses around that service it and the surrounding neighborhood- primarily residential off main streets.

Sector Five: Northwest corner of Downtown St. Paul. Contains several freeway off-ramps, and on a normal day traffic from Minneapolis would enter via this sector. Borders the “Free Speech Zone,” contains the Dorothy Day Center (homeless shelter), a hospital and the Cathedral. Sits on a downward slope toward the Xcel.

Sector Six: Northern section of Downtown St. Paul. Contains several overpasses and freeway off-ramps, and part of the march route. Also contains a hospital, some elderly care apartments, and high-rises.

Sector Seven: Central section of Downtown St. Paul. Gridded traffic from all directions. Contains part of the march route. Mostly high rises, and includes the police station.”

all the claims can be found here:

http://www. nornc. org/sectorcalls/

so far the bash back! network and midwest cluster will be claiming sector four.

Sector one has been claimed by Pog and the North East Anarchists Network

Sector Four has been claimed by UA in the Bay

Sector Six (the one the mid-atlantic as was looking at)
Was claimed by both the Campus Anti-War Network and The North West Anarchists.

Sector 7, 2 and 3 have not been claimed but more then likely we’ll be going to one of those. If 7 then we are probably organizing a black bloc because thats where the financial district is gonna be.

Well, I hope that this helps, and you feel like its been positive and encouraging. There is gonna be a local out reach event in Frederick for people considering going.

Tell any and all your friends who are thinking about going to come to this event. Ill be giving at least one work shop.

So it seems that I am having a blog war with Mike Kaplan. This is very important that as a radical that I am right…so my blog must be better then Mike’s blog.

Hi, I am Dylan Petrohilos. I am involved with several different groups and numerous other projects with in those groups. I am involved with The Frederick Progressive Action Coalition or “FredPAC.” We are a community group tackling the expansion at fort detrick, setting up food not bombs, really really free markets, critical mass and we are working to set up an infoshop and D.I.Y punk spaces in Frederick.

This summer I plan on going on the ride of my life. Me and Olga (girlfriend/best friend) plan on going to from Frederick to Indiana, to Denver, to st paul.  We want to go to protest the planned I-69 expansion, and the Democratic and Republican Conventions. I plan on putting pictures of the events and any stories.

You can find under the Pages section the history of my life style choices, pictures from the protests, stories from my travels, and punk rock shows. Not all of them will be fun or interesting but some of them will be worth wile to read.  There will be catagories which should make it a bit easier.

When I am on the road I will try and make it to the computer as often as possible but do not be surprised if I am unable to everyday.