Dear friends,

We are writing to ask for your help. As of today, if you search on

google.com for the term, "Republican National Convention", we are ranked

second. We would like to replace the official GOP website as the number #1

rank. Why is this important? Well, it's just one more way we can outsmart

them and confuse the delegates, bring people to our site and get more

attention for the resistance against the RNC. If you have a site, blog or

other web space, this is how you do this:

If you haven't already linked to us, use this code for your page:

Republican National

Convention

and/or

Republican

Convention

and/or

Republican

Protests

Be a friend and do all three! If you would like a reciprocal link on our

page, feel free to email us. Chance are, you may already be listed on our

site. See http://www.rncnotwelcome.org/directory.html to see.

Some updates:

--Our stickers, all 10,000 of them, are back from the printers and are

being posted all over the city. if you would like some, you can pick them

up locally at the following locations:

-bluestocking books, 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington on the

lower east side

-Mayday books-in the Theater for the New city on First Avenue between 10

and 11 street

-Revolution Books- 9 West 19 street, NYC

-Gorilla Cafe- Fifth Avenue and Park Place, Park Slope, Brooklyn

We will have uptown and more Brooklyn drop off locations soon

You can view the sticker design at

http://www.rncnotwelcome.org/images/sticker.jpg

And of course, they are free.

--Our Visitors Guide to NYC is currently online at

http://www.rncnotwelcome.org/visitorsguide/index.html

A print edition is being designed and will be made available in the next

couple of weeks as a downloadable booklet and will be distributed for free

in the summer. The guide is a detailed introduction to NYC for guests

coming here to protest the RNC. There are sections on culture, housing,

security, legal and more.

--We have just updated two sections on our site which deal with the people

behind the RNC.

-The RNC delegates page at http://www.rncnotwelcome.org/delegates.html

focuses on the people who the Republican party send here to do their

bidding. There is a comprehensive page with maps showing the locations

where RNC delegates will be staying. The idea of activists from other

states 'bird-dogging' or protesting at the hotels where their state

delegates are has been talked about but we trust you can figure out what

to do with this valuable information.

-The RNC funders page at http://www.rncnotwelcome.org/finance.html

points the spotlight at the local business elite who are responsible for

inviting the Republicans to meet in NYC and providing the private

financing of the convention. These are the people who pledge money, set up

fundraisers, secure the convention site and stand to make serious cash off

the convention coming here. Prominent Democrats like Jonathan Tisch

(CEO-Loews Hotels Inc) and Sanford Weil (CEO-Citigroup) are part of this

committee as it the local trinity of Bloomberg, Giuliani and even Democrat

and former Mayor Ed Koch!. There will be substantial information

posted to this page in coming weeks.

-Artists, designers and creative people have been most generous in

submitting their flyers,

images and graphics to us all of which have been posted on our flyers and

graphics page at http://www.rncnotwelcome.org/downloads.html

Finally,here is a quick guide to some pages on the site:

legal http://www.rncnotwelcome.org/legal.html

medical http://www.rncnotwelcome.org/medical.html

flyers http://www.rncnotwelcome.org/downloads.html

housing, transportation http://www.rncnotwelcome.org/housing.html

media archive http://www.rncnotwelcome.org/media.html

logistics timeline http://www.rncnotwelcome.org/logistics.html

merchandise page http://www.rncnotwelcome.org/merch.html

Thanks for reading our update. if you have received this and have no

desire to receive more like it, please let us know.

In solidarity--no RNC in NYC!

www.rncnotwelcome.org collective



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http://www.campshutdown.com

http://rncpunditpatrol.typepad.com

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