November 2011 Archives
For Occupiers questioning which side the cops are on, the following should help resolve that debate:
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University of California, Berkeley students set up tents after a general assembly voted to again occupy campus as part of an "open university" strike in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement on Nov.15, 2011 in Berkeley, California. Teach-outs, workshops, public readings, and marches culminated in an attempt to re-establish an Occupy Cal encampment that was shut down by police last week. Police raided the new encampment this morning.
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Police-Raid-Occupy-Cal-134027458.html
A protester is carried out of the bank after refusing to stand as she is arrested inside the Bank of America in the financial district, Wednesday November 16, 2011 in San Francisco, Calif. The arrests happened after hundreds of students marched through the streets of San Francisco.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/16/MNDP1M07K8.DTL#ixzz1dveZRl3x
David Herschorn/The Daily Californian
On Tuesday, November 15th, the Berkeley City Council passed, with an 8-1 vote, a resolution urging President Obama to order the army to allow Bradley Manning to have "official" visits with Juan E. Mendez, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Congressperson Dennis Kucinich, member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Amnesty International. All have been denied "official," private visits, free of monitoring or audio or video surveillance and recording, with Bradley Manning...
917 Washington Street
Oakland
... and all others
forming occupations in the Bay Area and beyond. They have not resigned
themselves to accepting the way the world is, but are boldly exposing the
towering crimes and audacious lies of this nation's financial and political
elites.
Their actions are an
extremely welcome development and a gust of fresh air in the
suffocating and poisonous atmosphere that the major parties, the Tea Partiers,
and their billionaire sponsors have been propagating and imposing, in this, the
"land of the free."
We protest all the
crimes of a system that relies on war,
torture, unmanned drone attacks, secret operations and police brutality to
maintain Empire in the interest of America's richest 1%.
And call
on all people to stand with these path-blazing youth and those oppressed by our
government, here and around the world. Put your energies, your funds, your
thoughts, and your bodies on the line to give voice to the most exploited,
ignored, and oppressed who have suffered under the U.S. government's economic,
military, and social crimes here and around the globe.
The future is unwritten...
which one we get is up to us.
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| David Shankbone (CC-BY) |
From Zuccotti Park to Nashville, counterterrorism cops and homeland security officials are spying on and intimidating Occupy protesters. It may have something to do with the way the Patriot Act can be read to classify civil disobedience as domestic terrorism. --PZS
protesters 'occupy' campaign event
What began as a relatively peaceful day of demonstrations in Oakland on Wednesday ended in tear gas, rubber bullets and sound grenades being fired on occupiers. The Oakland Police Department arrested dozens of protesters who had taken over an abandoned building near the Oscar Grant plaza where the occupiers have an encampment.
The confrontation came at the end of a long day of festivities around a General Strike...
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