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Police Confiscate Permaculture Bus Before Republican Convention

BY Shel Horowitz | 09-04-2008 | 2:04 PM
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This one is reaaallllly bizarre: Police in St. Paul, MN, site of the Republican convention, confiscated an old schoolbus that was serving as a mobile demonstration of the permaculture approach to sustainability--leaving its occupants, who'd been living in the bus, stranded by the side of the road, unable to rescue their computers or other personal possessions. The police *did* allow them to take their chickens and dogs.

I've seen nothing about this outrage in the mainstream media--but you can watch the video of the bus being towed away and the permaculture activists' questions to the police by clicking here.