#OCCUPYWALLSTREET campaign - September 17

[Laodicean]

[eyeno]

Anonymous Hacks Police Websites and Data to Support Occupy Wall Street
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Although they had a hand in starting the Occupy Wall Street protest, the hacktivist collective Anonymous has been pretty quiet since it started. No longer: Anonymous claims they just hacked a ton of police sites and leaked usernames and passwords.

The biggest target of today's hack was the International Association of Chiefs of Police, whose website is still down as of this writing. It's auspicious timing, as the IACP is holding its annual meeting in Chicago.

A press release by Anonymous said that the hack was timed to the IACP meeting as part of a "Day of Action Against Police Brutality."

In solidarity with the Occupation Movement and the International Day of Action Against Police Brutality, allied #anonymous and #antisec vessels took aim at the corrupt bootboys of the 1%: the police. We hacked, defaced, and destroyed several law enforcement targets, leaking over 600MB of private information including internal documents, membership rosters, addresses, passwords, social security numbers, and other confidential data. According to the IACP's development documents, their systems cost several hundred thousand dollars. We are pleased to destroy it all for free, leaking their private info and defacing their websites in one swift blow.

Another document appears to be about 1,000 user names and passwords belonging to the Boston Patrolmans' Association.

It's impossible to verify all of the hackers claims, but an audio recording posted today to YouTube appears to feature a hacker with a British accent calling the Baldwin County, Alabama Sheriff's Office to admit to hacking their site. (Check out 5:25 in the video above.)

"Apparently someone has hacked into the website. We have shut down the website at this time," an officer tells the caller.

"Yeah, that was me," responds the caller. The Baldwin Sheriff's Office website is up at this time. Anonymous' press release said they were attacking Baldwin County because of civil rights abuses in the 60s in Birmingham. Anonymous sure can hold a grudge!

The last time Anonymous tried to hack for Occupy Wall Street, they took down the New York Stock Exchange's website—for about one minute.

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/ano ... s-and.html

[Aurataur]

"I am very pleased with the way things went," interim Police Chief Howard Jordan said at a news conference. "In the end, I think we allowed people to exercise their rights to free speech and free assembly."

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This is what Oakland's Police Chief had to say after raiding the Occupy Oakland encampment with several hundred officers in riot gear from 10 different law enforcement agencies utilizing tear gas, rubber bullets, and possibly even sound cannons.

I think this quote belongs in the "Contemptible quotes from insufferable assholes" thread.

[Bruce Dazzling]

Haven't seen this on here yet.

Lots of Elizabeth Warren goodness.

[eyeno]

Australia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... RYx50jQqAQ

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NY couple files to trademark "Occupy Wall St."

(CBS/AP)

NEW YORK - A Long Island couple has filed to trademark the Occupy Wall Street movement's name, to capitalize on what they said was its potential as a "global brand."

The filing was first reported by The Smoking Gun website.

In a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) application dated Oct. 18, Robert and Diane Maresca sought to trademark the phrase "Occupy Wall St." for use on bumper stickers, hobo bags, gym bags, back packs, carry-ons, umbrellas, clothing and footwear.

Robert Maresca, a former ironworker who describes himself as pro-union, told The Smoking Gun he became interested in Occupy Wall Street after union members began showing up at the protesters' encampment in Zuccotti Park.

Asked if his trademark filing was a "crass attempt" to cash in on an anti-corporate movement, Robert Maresca told The Smoking Gun no, but noted that his was a practical move: "If I didn't buy it and use it, someone else will."

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The Patent Office database shows filings have also been made for Occupy D.C. 2012; 99%er; and both I am the 99% and We Are The 99%.

Maresca told The Smoking Gun said, after coming across the "We Are The 99%" filing, he believed that "Occupy" would prove to be "a more powerful brand."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-201 ... -wall-st./

[Bruce Dazzling]

Australia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... RYx50jQqAQ

Crikey! If everyone just passively accepted multi-trillion dollar fraud and blindly obeyed the "authorities" then those poor shock troops wouldn't be forced to use violence.

[2012 Countdown]

Oct 25 2011 11:11 AM ET
David Letterman 'loves' the Occupy Wall Street protests: 'I'm very sympathetic': VIDEO
David Letterman did not pussyfoot around in making clear his feelings about the Occupy Wall Street protestors. “I love these people causin’ trouble,” he said on Monday night’s Late Show. “Increasingly, this is the way we get change in this country.”
Letterman was interviewing Keith Olbermann when the subject of the protestors came up. Olbermann’s comments could be predicted, in the sense that they are similar to the sentiments he’s consistently expressed on his Current TV show. But Letterman’s remarks were refreshingly adamant and forthright; he remains one of the few late-night variety-show hosts (Craig Ferguson is the other) who isn’t timid about letting you know where he stands on various issues. Check it out:

http://watching-tv.ew.com/2011/10/25/da ... -limbaugh/

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20 Photos Of Police Violently Breaking Up Occupy Oakland
Culture Buzz Early this morning around 500 police officers dismantled Occupy Oakland's camp by allegedly using rubber bullets, tear gas, and sound canons. Democracy at its finest.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/photos-o ... ccupy-oakl

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Protesters Being Dragged By Police In Melbourne, Australia
Oct 23 2011
After six days of peaceful occupation of the city square, and five days before the Queen is due to visit Melbourne, Lord Mayor Robert Doyle warned that if the protestors didn't leave today they would be forcibly removed. The eviction was carried out by 400 police including riot police and dogs. Horses and capsicum spray were also used to attack the crowd at various times. People stood their ground in the square before being removed one by one. Occupy Melbourne then staged a peaceful sit-in in Swanston St which was again brutally attacked. At least 65 people were arrested,video source : http://www.heraldsun.com.au/

http://www.wickedhype.com/videos/detail ... Australia-

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10/25/2011
It’s on: Republicans slam Elizabeth Warren for embracing Occupy Wall Street
By Greg Sargent

Wow, this is going to be good: Occupy Wall Street is now officially an issue in what may be the highest-profile and most polarizing Senate race in the country.
National Republicans are now attacking Elizabeth Warren for embracing the protests, seeking to make a liability out of the fact that Warren, a longtime critic of Wall Street excess, has now aligned herself with the movement’s intellectual underpinnings. What this means: The conservative effort to turn blue collar whites and independents against the protesters and their broader populist message — exploiting a traditional cultural fault line in our politics — will now unfold in the context of a high profile political campaign.
Warren was asked by the Daily Beast for a comment on the protests. She said: “I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do. I support what they do.”
Now the NRSC has opened fire on Warren for the comments, blasting out an email containing links to stories about protesters in Massachusetts battling with cops. Said NRSC spokesman Brian Walsh: “Warren’s decision to not only embrace, but take credit for this movement is notable considering the Boston Police Department was recently forced to arrest at least 141 of her Occupy acolytes in Boston the other day after they threatened to tie up traffic downtown and refused to abide by their protest permit limits.”
The NRSC is also circulating that Doug Schoen Op ed painting protesters as wild-eyed extremists and arguing that Dems who embrace the protests risk driving away independents and moderates, even though it was subsequently proven that Schoen’s conclusions were not supported by his own data.
In other words, national Republicans are placing their bet. They are wagering that the cultural instincts of the working class whites and independents who will decide this race ensure that the excesses of the protesters will make them less inclined to listen to her populist economic message, which is also directed at those voters. This is an old story in American politics, of course. Conservatives have for decades been mining the tension between blue collar whites and liberal middle class activists who resort to outsized protest tactics and occasional violence. That’s why you hear conservatives constantly referring hopefully to today’s protesters as “McGovernites.”
Warren, by contrast, is making the opposite bet. By unabashedly embracing the protests, she is placing a wager on the true mood of the country right now. She’s gambling that these voters will look past the theatrics of these protests; that they will see that she and the protesters are the ones who actually have their economic interests at heart; and that they will ultimately side with Warren’s and Occupy Wall Street’s general critique of the current system and explanation for what’s gone wrong in this country.
The early polling returns suggest that there’s no evidence that ordinary working-class and middle-class voters are being alienated by the protests. It still remains to be seen where public opinion will end up on the movement and whether there’s really any hope of tying it to a broader working class constituency.
This race was already shaping up as a referendum on whether unabashed left wing populism can win back these voters — and on whether left wing populism in general is seeing a genuine and durable resurgence. If Occupy Wall Street becomes a major flashpoint in the race, the argument will get a whole lot more combustible

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plu ... ingtonpost

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Where are the anti-Semites of Occupy Wall Street?
By Richard Cohen, Published: October 24

Reckless Jew that I am, I muscled my way into the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Lower Manhattan despite multiple reports of virulent and conceivably lethal anti-Semitism. Projecting an unvarnished Semitism, I circled the place, encountering nothing and no one to suggest bigotry — not a sign, not a book and not even the guy who some weeks ago held up a placard with the instruction to Google the phrase “Zionists control Wall St.” Google “nut case” instead.
This was my second visit to the Occupy Wall Street site and the second time my keen reporter’s eye has failed to detect even a hint of the anti-Semitism that had been trumpeted by certain right-wing Web sites and bloggers, most prominently Bill Kristol. He is a founder of the Emergency Committee for Israel, which has been running cable TV ads alleging a virtual hate rally at the Occupy Wall Street site and calling on President Obama and other important Democrats to denounce what is — as it happens — not happening there. The commercial ran on Fox News the very day I was at the site.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ ... ingtonpost

[Project Willow]

Crikey! If everyone just passively accepted multi-trillion dollar fraud and blindly obeyed the "authorities" then those poor shock troops wouldn't be forced to use violence.

I actually had two friends from high school making pretty much that same argument, and then admonishing OWS that they could learn from the civil rights movement to make things better for themselves.

"But look if you know the beatdown is coming or even remotely possible and you stick around, your're not opposed to violence, your're asking for it. And then cry and moan that it happened. Pretty hypocritical if you ask me."

If the protesters would respect the laws you so cherish, there would be no police brutality!

[Bruce Dazzling]

Crikey! If everyone just passively accepted multi-trillion dollar fraud and blindly obeyed the "authorities" then those poor shock troops wouldn't be forced to use violence.

I actually had two friends from high school making pretty much that same argument, and then admonishing OWS that they could learn from the civil rights movement to make things better for themselves.

"But look if you know the beatdown is coming or even remotely possible and you stick around, your're not opposed to violence, your're asking for it. And then cry and moan that it happened. Pretty hypocritical if you ask me."

If the protesters would respect the laws you so cherish, there would be no police brutality!

Yeah, I found myself in a similar situation last week on Facebook when a friend's childhood friend began to admonish him for posting police brutality videos.

Well, he probably wouldn't know what the word "admonish" means.

Here's an exact quote:

What have you done to help your.community? Nothing. Except bitch.and complain. The the.smart protesters.here.in DC.actually are supporting law enforcement,but you just hopped on the.bandwagon and waited.for.an excuse to pull out your hippe tent and write on cardboard. In 2 months your gonna forget about all this.and find something else to "protest" while you wait tables and contribute nothing to society. I laugh at people like you, you waste. I got some tissues down here in DC if you want to dry your hippie tears.

Ps Citibank reported profits since your hippie parade started.....way to go!

Turns out that this guy is a DC cop, and he had literally JUST become FB friends with my friend after not having seen him since high school.

What a hoot!

Palm, meet forehead.

[operator kos]

"I am very pleased with the way things went," interim Police Chief Howard Jordan said at a news conference. "In the end, I think we allowed people to exercise their rights to free speech and free assembly."

source

This is what Oakland's Police Chief had to say after raiding the Occupy Oakland encampment with several hundred officers in riot gear from 10 different law enforcement agencies utilizing tear gas, rubber bullets, and possibly even sound cannons.

I think this quote belongs in the "Contemptible quotes from insufferable assholes" thread.

Speaking of insufferable assholes:

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan
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Please call and let this contemptible piece of shit know what you think about her bringing in 500 riot police to crack the skulls of a bunch of completely peaceful demonstrators exercising their basic rights.

[Laodicean]

Crikey! If everyone just passively accepted multi-trillion dollar fraud and blindly obeyed the "authorities" then those poor shock troops wouldn't be forced to use violence.

I actually had two friends from high school making pretty much that same argument, and then admonishing OWS that they could learn from the civil rights movement to make things better for themselves.

"But look if you know the beatdown is coming or even remotely possible and you stick around, your're not opposed to violence, your're asking for it. And then cry and moan that it happened. Pretty hypocritical if you ask me."

If the protesters would respect the laws you so cherish, there would be no police brutality!

Yeah, I found myself in a similar situation last week on Facebook when a friend's childhood friend began to admonish him for posting police brutality videos.

Well, he probably wouldn't know what the word "admonish" means.

Here's an exact quote:

What have you done to help your.community? Nothing. Except bitch.and complain. The the.smart protesters.here.in DC.actually are supporting law enforcement,but you just hopped on the.bandwagon and waited.for.an excuse to pull out your hippe tent and write on cardboard. In 2 months your gonna forget about all this.and find something else to "protest" while you wait tables and contribute nothing to society. I laugh at people like you, you waste. I got some tissues down here in DC if you want to dry your hippie tears.

Ps Citibank reported profits since your hippie parade started.....way to go!

Turns out that this guy is a DC cop, and he had literally JUST become FB friends with my friend after not having seen him since high school.

What a hoot!

Palm, meet forehead.

[Project Willow]

^ Bukowski was an asshole.

Bruce I wouldn't know what to say to that fellow except, "Stop calling me names."
The polemics are still flying on FB, via remote tagging even. Egad, it's tiring.



Apparently there are now 3 OS camps in Seatown, City Hall, Seattle Central CC, and Westlake.

[vondardanelle]

Australia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... RYx50jQqAQ

Crikey! If everyone just passively accepted multi-trillion dollar fraud and blindly obeyed the "authorities" then those poor shock troops wouldn't be forced to use violence.

i went to the occupy sydney rally on saturday and it was kind of a disappointing turnout. maybe 200-300 people. but it was definitely a lovely afternoon and everyone at the site was nice and having a good time, and as with other places, a really diverse seeming crowd. they were also camped out smack in front of the Reserve Bank of Oz, so it was a good spot. but it was completely surrounded by police and some mounted police. and then apparently at 5am the next day they moved in and got rid of everyone. I havent seen any video of that and I'm not really sure how it all went down. But it seems like they saw that not many people turned out and figured it would be easy to get rid of the protesters without any kind of backlash, and that seems to have been what's happened. sad.

i heard that they were rougher with Occupy Melbourne cuz the Queen is headed there. it seems to have worked too-- Occupy Melbourne voted not to protest at the Queen's visit today.

[2012 Countdown]

MAY DAY...its going down in Oakland. the second confrontation today/tonight...

northoaklandnow Oakland North
Police sprayed tear gas. My eyes, my nose and my throat burns. Am using water at the nearby wishing well to wash my face. #OccupyOakland
1 minute ago

spiral_one Spiralnexus
National Lawyers Guild to Oakland & Alameda Co. attorneys regarding arrests at #OccupyOakland - nlgsf.org/docs/EmailReOa… #occupyoakland
1 minute ago

rattlecans Ma
Yeah ABC over there, that's what I call a free media doing it's job telling truth to power, acting as a witness. Not! #occupyoakland
1 minute ago

blogdiva Liza Sabater
MT @AnonNep: #OccupyOakland : Lines of riot police @jankyhellfacehttp://twitpic.com/75ur73 & @KALWinformant twitpic.com/75uqzf #OWS
1 minute ago

KALWinformant KALWinformant
#occupyoakland one demonstrator hit in head w/less lethal. CS gas, point blank flashbang and nonlethal twitpic.com/75uvm0
1 minute ago

northoaklandnow Oakland North
Eyes.burning. throats on fire. Tear gassed. #occupyoakland. Ppl crying and coughing
1 minute ago

AnonMedics Anon Street Medics
ATTACKED US WITH FLASHBANGS AND GAS #occupyoakland
2 minutes ago

BPGulfLeak Green Energy 绿色能源
So.. one minute "If you do not leave in 4 mins, we will deploy chemical agents" & then ABC's livestream goes down #occupyoakland #ows
2 minutes ago

FourYawkeyWay David Ferreira
ABC won't document massive, unprovoked police brutality but there are dozens of citizen journalists risking injury to do so. #occupyoakland
2 minutes ago

beccay2 R E B E C C A Y
RT @kgoradio: "It's my first exp w/tear gas, and I gotta tell ya, I hope it's my last." -- Reporter Jeffrey Schaub covering #occupyoakland
2 minutes ago

H_O_G_ Joan
Put ur #McRib down and pay attention to what's going on in #occupyoakland ...Americans are loosing their freedoms. Ur town can be next
2 minutes ago

blogdiva Liza Sabater
#occupyoakland RT @JoshuaHol: Ok, that's teargas for sure. Retreating.
2 minutes ago

DaveStroup Dave Stroup
If it's true that police deployed tear gas right as the ABC7 helicopter cut the feed.... well, then, yeah. #occupyoakland
2 minutes ago

TheFedUp99 TheFedUp99
"Chem weapons will be used. "#occupyoakland twitpic.com/75ur73 #OccupyOakland
2 minutes ago

kgoradio KGO Radio
"It's my first experience with tear gas, and I gotta tell ya, I hope it's my last." -- Reporter Jeffrey Schaub covering #occupyoakland
3 minutes ago

Catherina_Guate Catherina
RT @draperje: Interesting that both local news feeds of #occupyoakland cut off right after the 5 minute police (cont) tl.gd/dqtphh
2 minutes ago

JackalAnon Jackal | Chacal
Have my gloves on to throw back tear gas #OccupyOakland
3 minutes ago
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apeywoo April
ABC and CBS cut livestreams both down and now reports of tear gas from the ground. WTF #occupyoakland
3 minutes ago