Crashing the Party: Legacies and Lessons from the RNC 2000
352Crashing the Party: Legacies and Lessons from the RNC 2000
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Overview
Crashing the Party explains how the events of 2000 acted as a testing ground in which Philadelphia Police Commissioner John Timoney was able to develop repressive methods of policing that have been used extensively across the U.S. ever since. At the same time, these events also provided a laboratory for the radical, innovative, and confrontational forms of legal support carried out by R2K Legal, a defendant-led collective that raised unprecedented amounts of money for legal defense, used a unique form of court solidarity to overcome hundreds of serious charges, and implemented a PR campaign that turned the tide of public opinion in favor of dissidents. While much has been written about the global-justice era of struggle, little attention has been paid to the legal struggles of the period or the renewed use of solidarity tactics in jail and the courtroom that made them possible. By analyzing the successes and failures of these tactics, Crashing the Party offers rare insight into the mechanics and concrete effects of such resistance. In this way, it is an invaluable resource for those seeking to confront today’s renewed counterintelligence tactics.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781629631028 |
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Publisher: | PM Press |
Publication date: | 09/01/2015 |
Pages: | 352 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Marina Sitrin is a writer, lawyer, teacher, organizer, and dreamer. She is the editor of Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina, author of Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism & Autonomy in Argentina and coauthor of They Can’t Represent US! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy. She has a JD in International Women's Human Rights from CUNY Law School and a PhD in Global Sociology from Stony Brook University.
Heidi Boghosian is the executive director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute and former executive director of the National Lawyers Guild. She is the cohost of the weekly civil liberties radio show Law and Disorder on Pacifica's WBAI in New York and over forty national affiliates. She received her JD from Temple Law School where she was the editor in chief of the Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review. She also holds an MS from Boston Universityand a BA from Brown University. She is the author of Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Foreword ix
Introduction 1
Section I In the Streets
Chapter 1 Preparation and Protest 15
Chapter 2 August 1 37
Chapter 3 The Great Puppet Caper 49
Chapter 4 Jail Solidarity 67
Section II In the Courts
Chapter 5 R2K Legal 93
Chapter 6 Court Solidarity 113
Chapter 7 Political Trials and Early Victories 123
Chapter 8 Judge McCaffery 151
Chapter 9 Felony Trials and Long-Haul Victories 173
Chapter 10 Civil Litigation 195
Section III Legacies and Lessons
Chapter 11 Success and Failure of Civil Litigation 215
Chapter 12 The Legacy of August 1 227
Chapter 13 A New Dawn for Radical Legal Activism 261
Notes 279
Afterword 323
Index 327
About the Contributors 337