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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Occupy Cal: Police brutality in Berkeley (video)

Miles Matthews, RT.com, Occupy Cal, The Daily Californian, Wisdom Quarterly

(Nov. 10, 2011) Our own media won't cover what really happens, but RussiaToday, the British tabloid press, CBC.ca, and Al Jazeera sometimes will.

(Video by Miles Mathews, CalTV) US paramilitary forces in riot gear clashed with dissenting students at Cal Berkeley after demonstrators refused to dismantle their Occupy Cal camp. Tents were erected following a march protesting tuition fee increases for students -- in solidarity with the broader Occupy Wall Street movement. Several activists were arrested, some were beaten with impunity by police with batons, guns, spies, mace, cannons, and secret disorienting weapons.

Police are free to riot: totalitarian tactics on kids

The crowds at UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza at 10:30 pm, Wed., Nov. 4, 2011 (dailycal.org)

Occupy Cal protest sees large crowds, police violence

Amruta Trivedi (DailyCal.org)
On a day marked by large crowds and violence between protesters and police, UC Berkeley students and community members established an Occupy Cal encampment on Sproul Plaza, despite it going directly against campus policy.

The encampment, approved in a nearly unanimous general assembly vote by the protest’s participants, was formed to show solidarity with the national Occupy movement but focused on the increased privatization of the UC system... More (Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011 at 1:01 am, updated at 4:19 am).

UC students were arrested and suffered injuries following a police crackdown on an attempted campus. "We had the tents set up for about a half an hour when the police decided they wanted to shut down the camp," student protester Eric Uribe recalled in an interview with RT.

"What the students did is they set up a human wall around the tents. Soon after that, the police approached with full force in riot gear, with batons. We had no intention to move, but they jabbed some of us repeatedly in the stomach, pulling people onto the floor and arresting them." Hundreds of protesters had gathered at the town's Sproul Plaza to protest against tuition fee increases and public education funding cuts.

Police beat children, girls, and defenseless teens

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Police shoot cameraman on video

Ernest A. Canning (BradBlog.com)

New video has emerged, courtesy of ThinkProgress, of an apparently unprovoked Oakland police officer shooting a cameraman during a recent stand-off with Occupy Oakland demonstrators.

In an email to The BRAD BLOG, Sgt. Christopher Bolton, Oakland PD's Chief of Staff, confirmed that the incident involved an "OPD use of force," which took place at 16th Street near San Pablo Ave. in Oakland on the morning of Nov. 3, 2011.

The matter was "under investigation." (Recall that a general strike took place in Oakland on Nov. 2. This event, according to the cameraman, took place shortly after midnight.) More

INN World Report radio's Wall St. Teach-In
VIDEO: Scott Walker gets checked after betraying voters
Wolf: The people versus the police (CNN)
Second Iraq Vet critically injured by Oakland PD
The police's violent Oct. 25 crackdown on Occupy Oakland demonstrators sent another vet to surgery, one who wasn't even protesting...
City Council hears testimony on Occupy Oakland
The Oakland City Council heard hours of emotional testimony on the Occupy Oakland encampment and the city's brutal crackdown. Supporters urged a resolution opposing police brutality.

(democraticunderground.com)

Police State? Who said Police State?

Coast to Coast, InfoWars.com, Josh Tolley, Wisdom Quarterly

Even the "right" opposes a police state. It blames the "left" (Red vs Blue), loves capitalism, supports police and war, tends to be racist and Christian. But nobody wants to live under a totalitarian regime like we do thanks to the shadow government pushing for the NWO.

Preserving freedom -- right wing style. Alternative media activist Alex Jones appeared on Coast to Coast (11-9-11). Like Jesse Ventura he is consumed with exposing the forces really controlling world events and preserving personal freedoms.

Having grown up in Texas, he witnessed corruption (by police) at an early age. He became an avid history student. And while still in high school, he started recognizing anti-gun, anti-family, globalist indoctrination. His college in Austin was pro-World Government... "a eugenics, transhumanist... total scientific dictatorship domination program."

Alex Jones was saying the same things a year ago.

After observing tragic police state oppression in Waco and Oklahoma City, he took to the airwaves on Public Access TV, radio, then the Web. He believes Timothy McVeigh was a patsy similar to Oswald.

"I never intended to try to be in the media; I wanted to work outside," said Jones. But as he learned of "total political takeover" and "New World Order brainwashing," he felt he had to warn people.

Legal to carry, but me frisking you is legal if I say it is.

He claims that what drives him is his quest for liberty, freedom, and fair play. "My goal is for us to learn from history and have a freer, libertarian, constitutional society," he explains. We are at a huge crossroads right now, and rather than the "greedy and hateful Illuminati" controlling human destiny, "I want to empower the better aspects of humanity and really see how far we can go."

Guns, capitalism, and free trade for freedom?

Regarding the TSA's invasive pat downs and [cancer and blindness causing] X-ray machines, he believes they are part of a plan "to break our will, and to train us that we have absolutely zero rights, zero liberties, and that the government any time it wants can pull you over, or come into your house without a warrant."

Jones announced that in addition to his radio show, he is now hosting Info Wars Nightly News, a live video news program covering the day's headlines, with unscripted analysis.

InfoWars.com

Friday, October 28, 2011

It's a Police State now (video)

(Niknak72) This footage is unbelievable. So please spread it as quickly as possible before it gets removed. Authorities have already spoken to Google and YouTube demanding that all police brutality videos be taken down. So much for free speech.

Pretext: "It's not healthy for these kids to camp like they're homeless." Force: Coordinated paramilitary city police. Victim ("enemy"): Peaceful demonstrators occupying public square to call attention to broken economic, political, and educational system. The world is not working under American capitalism, which is owned, controlled, and in service of corporations not the people they purport to serve. Solution: More occupiers.

The police did not feel safe. So they suited up and mowed down the unarmed opposition. It's just like NFL football... except with guns, concussive grenades, tear gas, blunt force trauma inducing batons, torture technique training, and virtual immunity from prosecution for brutality and assault.

Protesters vow return to plaza despite ouster

Photo: Occupy San Diego property seized by police in early-morning sweep. Credit: John Gibbins / San Diego Union-Tribune

(LA Times) Occupy San Diego protesters vowed Friday to return to the civic plaza behind City Hall despite being ousted and their tents removed by a massive police sweep hours earlier. "The police were completely out of line," said protest leader Ray Lutz. "This insidious show of force has only energized our movement. We're going to be even stronger." More

(RT.com)

Occupy The Valley (video)

Wisdom Quarterly

Occupy San Diego will not be stopped by oppressive police tactics. Instead, the Occupy Movement in California is growing in response.

This is our currency! We will occupy it! (occupygeorge.com)

It will soon be in Van Nuys and Sherman Oaks (the world-famous Valley), which is part of the San Fernando Valley in northwest Los Angeles County. It is also coming to Pasadena, in the progressive adjacent northeast San Gabriel Valley. These are largely residential enclaves in the megalopolis that is 50-mile-long "Los Angeles." The people united will never be defeated.

Wolf condemns "Stalinist" erosion of protest rights Author Naomi Wolf is arrested in New York at an Occupy Wall Street protest

Author Naomi Wolf and her partner Avram Ludwig are arrested in New York at an Occupy Wall Street protest (Guardian.co.uk/Mike Shane).

(Guardian) Feminist author Naomi Wolf has criticized the erosion of the right to public protest in the United States after she was arrested alongside Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in New York City. Wolf was led away in handcuffs after addressing protesters outside an awards ceremony held to honor New York's governor, at which she was a guest. The author had disputed claims by police that a permit granted to the event -- organized by the Huffington Post website on Tuesday night -- allowed them to clear the sidewalk outside the venue in the Soho district of Manhattan. More

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Occupy returns, police clamp down (video)

The Blaze, The Guardian, Wisdom Quarterly, RT, SF Chronicle
Minute 2:00 shows Wisdom Quarterly analyzing what is motivating the police state.

Tear gas was used in a military action against peaceful civilian protesters under the pretext of shooting at, arresting, destroying the encampment and materials, and brutalizing them for their own good. Like the My Lai Massacre, the police are "destroying them to save them."

A crowd of roughly 400 Occupy Oakland protesters clashed with police Tuesday evening while trying to reclaim a campsite that they had been ousted from earlier in the day. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the crowd marched from the public library toward [Oscar Grant] Plaza at about 5:00 pm, vowing to confront police.

(The Blaze/Jonathon M. Seidl) - We’ve already brought you some pictures and video from the Occupy Oakland eviction last night, but this morning it seems things were much worse.... police used [deadly, canon-style projectile] rubber bullets on the crowd. Intrepid blogger Zombie put together a collage of videos and pictures the seem to capture the full chaos of what happened. Here’s how he describes it in his piece, “Rioting in Downtown Oakland as Occupiers Clash with Police”... More

Police shoot Vet, toss grenade at people who come to his aid

(Guardian.co.uk) Protesters have returned to downtown Oakland, California, to demand the resignation of the city's mayor and an investigation to explain how an Iraq war veteran, Scott Olsen, was hit in the head by a teargas canister at close range, leaving him critically injured [skull fracture, brain swelling]. About 2,000 people -- half as many as Tuesday night -- massed in front of City Hall on Wednesday, tearing down a steel barricade intended to keep them off the grass in [Oscar Grant] Plaza. More

Friday, October 21, 2011

Veteran: "There is no honor in this" (Occupy)

A Marine at Occupy Wall Street tells NYPD "There is no honor in beating unarmed citizens."

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Occupy Berkeley in the Sixties (video)

Wisdom Quarterly, Occupy Boston, Occupy Los Angeles, AlJazeera.net, Occupy Wall Street

Joined by labor unions, protesters march from Foley Square to Zuccotti Park, NY (Reuters/AlJazeera).

UC Berkeley was occupied giving rise to a generation of activists (Criticalthinking007)

"You will respect my authoritay!" is the police mantra chanted around the country. Teachers, unions, professionals can all join students, activists, and elderly demonstrators. The mantra is the same. As now, so in the 1960s. Then it was illegal wars, racism, and a lack of civil rights for all. Today the issues are far more pressing -- a matter of survival. Having enough to eat as bankers give a new spin to the ancient "Let them eat cake" utterance that preceded the French Revolution commemorated by Bastille Day. Wall Street onlookers from on high giggle "Let them sip champagne."

"People over Profits" as transport unions join Occupy Wall Street demonstration.

Power to the People
AlJazeera.net

A diverse group of powerful unions has joined demonstrations in New York's financial district, lending some focus, credibility and potentially hundreds of participants to a movement that began with a few university students.

The "Occupy Wall Street" protest movement, which began three weeks ago in New York's financial hub, was joined on Wednesday by a dozen US labor unions.

Among those who joined the clamor were members of the Chinatown Tenants Union and the Transit Workers Union, the liberal group MoveOn.org, [CodePink,] and community organizations such as the Working Families Party and United NY. More

(MORE)

Monday, October 3, 2011

What "Occupy Together" wants (list)

The position of Occupy Together as edited by Wisdom Quarterly

Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
Occupylosangeles.org

As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must keep an eye on what brought us together. We write so that all people wronged by corporate forces of the world will know that we stand together as allies. We are here until the fairness that is already law is actually applied to banks, hedge funds, corporations, the military, and the White House. As ONE people, united, we acknowledge that:

The future of the human race requires the cooperation
Our system must protect our rights
If the system is corrupt, it is up to individuals to protect rights
A democratic government derives its (just) power from people
Corporations do not have our consent to extract Earth's wealth
No real democracy is attainable when economic power rules

We come at a time when corporations -- which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality -- run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.

But WHY are you occupying major US cities?

Corporations have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure, despite not having the original mortgage.
Corporations have taken bailouts from [corrupted politicians on the backs of] taxpayers with impunity, yet they continue to give their executives exorbitant bonuses.
Corporations have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on skin color, age, sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation.
They have poisoned the air, water, and food supply and undermined farming through monopolization.
They have profited from illegal torture, unjust confinement, and cruel treatment of countless nonhumans and actively hidden these practices.
They have stripped employees of the right to negotiate for living wages and safer working conditions.
They hold students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt, a human right provided to earlier generations.
They have outsourced labor and used that as leverage to cut workers’ health coverage and pay.
Corporations have corrupted the courts to have the same rights as people, with none of the responsibility.

They have spent millions on legal teams to look for ways to evade taxes and get out of health insurance contracts.
They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
They have bought and traded pollution as a commodity.
They have used our police and military to end freedom of the press.
They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products in pursuit of profits.
They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have and continue to produce.
They have lined the pockets of politicians who are supposed to regulate them.
They HIDE and block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil, gas, plastic, war, coal, and pollution.
They block generic chemicals that have already reaped great profits violating patent promises.
They block and outlaw natural remedies, therapies, vitamins, and supplements.
They promote synthetic poison pharmaceuticals and tainted vaccines.
They purposely cover up oil spills, accidents, criminal bookkeeping, and harmful ingredients in pursuit of profit.
They keep us disinformed, misinformed, and fearful by control of the media.
They accept private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious evidence of their innocence.
They perpetuate colonialism occupying us at home and others abroad.
They encourage and engage in torture and the murder of innocent civilians overseas.
They behave as a military-industrial EMPIRE that has little regard for US citizens.
Corporations create, deploy, and sell weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.*

*THESE GRIEVANCES ARE NOT AN ALL-INCLUSIVE LIST OF WHY WE ARE HERE.

As long as they don't come to DC, I don't care what they do. You won't fund my re-election? Well, these hippies have got to be dealt with with the full authority vested in my office.

People of the world,

We the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you: Assert your power.

Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we all are facing; generate solutions accessible to everyone.

To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.

We will make our voices heard!

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Woman at SF Fed demands Dimon come out hands up

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

London Falling (rioters respond to police abuse)

Wisdom Quarterly

WARNING: Explicit lyrics ("Killing in the Name Of" by Rage Against the Machine)

The number of UK police, whose abuse brought on the rioting, is tripled to deal with the country's worst unrest since the 1980s, adding gasoline to the fire. More

Meanwhile, in the US, Orange County begins to brew.

Protect and Serve (Themselves)

Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)

Good thing our police do not abuse us in America. Our officers may be racist, sexist, and poorly educated, but they would never harm the most vulnerable members of our affluent society. Oh wait, unless such members are mentally disabled and helpless. Police can break laws, commit felonies on a routine basis, murder, execute, assault, and rape -- all under "color of law"?

But if abuse were ever the answer, the police would be right. And rioters should join the police force. The answer to all questions is compassion.

The wrongs police do are doubly wrong because they are done under color of law. A criminal act of mayhem is more reprehensible when six "officers" beat and electrocute a homeless and disabled man than when two sports fans beat a rival fan. The police were not satisfied to beat the face, Taser, and torment their victim; they thought it would be a good idea to kill him and then lie about it on official reports (a serious crime unto itself). But all of Los Angeles was in an uproar to find the assailant in the horrible Dodger Stadium beating. Now the same sort of crime that has sparked England, which twice before set off mass rioting in Los Angeles (most recently due to the abuse of Rodney King), threatens Southern California again.

It's good to "know your enemy." Most Americans watching riot footage on TV mistakenly assume that police protect citizens. The fact is they criminally abuse some of them.

But where will peace of mind and a serene heart be found? In a war zone? On the streets? During a riot? These things are of course found within and nowhere else. Paramilitary police forces cannot take them away even if they concentrate us in FEMA camps.

Having returned from the horrors of Afghanistan and Iraq, where do most soldiers want to show off their savage training? In police agencies around the country. It's the new world order -- force fighting force until nothing but force consumes the country.

"Bulls on Parade" (RATM)