November 2011
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Occupy Seattle: Octogenarian activist Dorli Rainey on being pepper-sprayed by Seattle police, importance of activism
Eighty-four-year-old activist Dorli Rainey tells Keith about her experience getting pepper-sprayed by the police during an Occupy Seattle demonstration and the need to take action and spread the word of the Occupy movement. She cites the advice of the late...
joethewolfe asked: I'd like to begin by saying I watch the Daily Show and Colbert Report regularly (because I can't tolerate any other news station), and on tonight's episode of the Daily Show Jon Stewart and Samantha Bee talked about the "end" off Occupy Wall Street, and Colbert did a segment called "Occu-bye". I'm pretty sure OWS isn't over, but I just needed some...
“I believe change begins in the streets, and all citizens have the power to make...”
– Dorli Rainey (84 year old women pepper sprayed at Occupy Seattle)
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#OWS This May Not Be What A Police State Looks...
abaldwin360:
by WashingtonsBlog
Police State Tactics On Display Nationwide
In the last couple of days, police at Occupy protests:
Bludgeoned peaceful protesters at Berkeley … and then said that the protesters’ locking of arms was “violent”
Beat and reportedly broke the ribs of a peaceful protesting, 70-year old, Pulitzer prize winning literature professor at Berkeley (and see this).
Hit...
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Judge Rules Against Occupy Wall Street Encampment →
A New York judge has upheld the city’s dismantling of the Occupy Wall Street encampment, saying that the protesters’ first amendment rights don’t entitle them to camp out indefinitely in the plaza.
Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman on Tuesday denied a motion by the demonstrators seeking to be allowed back into the park with their tents and sleeping bags.
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Reporters Say Police Denied Access to Protest Site →
carton-rouge:
As New York City police cleared the Occupy Wall Street campsite in Zuccotti Park early Tuesday morning, many journalists were blocked from observing and interviewing protesters. Some called it a “media blackout” and said in interviews that they believed that the police efforts were a deliberate attempt to tamp down coverage of the operation.
The city blog Gothamist put it...
To mail books to The People's Library
kelsium:
The UPS Store
Re: Occupy Wall Street
Attn: The People’s Library
118A Fulton St. #205
New York, NY 10038
(via Occupy Wall Street Library Blog)
#OWS update 12 noon
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Latest info from National Lawyer’s Guild & CCR:
NYPD is still not allowing people to enter Zuccotti Park, despite the temporary restraining order ordering them to do so.
Transit Workers Union and Working Families Party have joined as plaintiffs in the complaint against the city of New York.
The hearing scheduled for 11:30 hasn’t begun yet. No judge has been...
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If a corporation can give HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF...
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Mayor Quan admits cities have coordinated action...
minitruthful:
In an interview on BBC, Mayor Jean Quan of Oakland admitted that there was a recent 18 city conference call to discuss response to the Occupy Wall Street movement. (via capitoilette.com, at 5:30 mark)
“I was recently on a conference call with 18 cities across the country who had the same situation… .”
This coordinated national response lifts the actions out of the realm of...
