#OCCUPYWALLSTREET campaign - September 17

[Wombaticus Rex]

^^Yeah, the audacity is off the charts. Tonight our GA was easily 3x-4x bigger than usual, including three ladies who attempted to "infiltrate" on behalf of local police. Like they'd send their dispatchers over? We welcomed them, thanked them for their interest, and told them to let the police know they're welcome to come and listen in themselves next time.

Jean Quan is fucking up really badly. Dunno why she's being so dumb but I'm betting it's pressure from somewhere else.

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NYC helicopter following march shooting video -feed-
NEW YORK CITY LIVE STREAM 2

http://www.emergencystream.com/video_st ... YC2/a.html

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jessemckinley Jesse McKinley
Crwd now close to 3000....call and response from speakers to crwd; "whole world is watching Oakland" - passing cars honking. #occupyoakland
23 minutes ago

CalFireNews Cal Fire News
#OWS #Alert multiple channels reporting possible raid on #OccupySF tonight around midnight, apparently #DHS wants all cities to clear camps
5 hours ago

OccupyAirForce Air Force anonymous
#OccupyDenver is being bullied by police and needs cold weather gear. #occupysf is supposedly getting raided tonight.
3 minutes ago

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More police lining up at Zuccotti #ows #occupywallstreet

blogdiva Liza Sabater
where? Union Sq? RT @OccupyWallSt: please be aware, COBRA a tactical NYPD unit is mounting, expect gas! #ows
1 minute ago

exiledsurfer exiledsurfer
RT @mtracey: Now there are two groups of riot cops on Liberty St., facing Zucotti. Emotions running high. #OWS
50 seconds ago

[eyeno]

^^^what site are you at 2012?

[Wombaticus Rex]

Those are from "Twitter," dude. Dudette? Either way. Twitter.

Check this out!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/20 ... l-protest/

The cops in Oakland, CA must be insane or have very dense people calling the shots. Their response to Occupy Oakland was so over the top it’s staggering. Tear gas, riot gear, flashbombs. Hundreds of armored police descended on the peaceful encampment.

If you want to create martyrs to a cause you oppose, this is how it’s done people:

"They came in force, bringing hundreds and hundreds of para-military police officers to subdue a group of campers who offered no resistance. JP Dobrin has some amazing pictures of the police assault, if you want to see that. I find myself thinking much more about what isn’t there anymore, the social infrastructure that these people treated as a violent threat to, something. We shouldn’t romanticize what was happening in that camp; parts were incredibly beautiful and inspiring, and then parts were, like anywhere else you have people, problematic. But it was working and growing and struggling, until, of course, it wasn’t allowed to anymore.

I support peaceful protest and democratic dissent. What we should never countenance is state violence against people who are not using violence themselves, whatever the cause. I don’t care if it’s Occupy Wall Street or the Tea Party. Though those Tea Partiers had lots of guns."

A little friendly advice for the police: if you want a protest or a rally to dissipate, ignore it. Until it turns into a violent riot, ignore it. Even if it goes on for weeks and months, eventually people go home.

If you want to make the protests more poignant, more profound, if you want to swell the ranks of the protesters and give them even more legitimacy, attack them with tear gas and flashbombs. Arrest them en masse.

Check that URL! Jean Quan is weeping in a bunker somewhere right now.

[StarmanSkye]

Seems to me the Oakland Police are so amped on decades of malicious US vs Them treachery and contempt for the 'common' people, they're actually eager to demonstrate the real reason for the US war and invasion of Iraq.


Occupy in Solidarity,
Liberate Our Future!

[Nordic]

I tried to call Jean Quan's office. It went to a voice mail, telling me the box was full. Yeah, I'll bet it was.

[Nordic]

Thank you, corporate whore media.

12:11 am on Thursday morning, and this is their front page:



"Oakland Police Action Unnerves Some Protesters"

Unnerves? UNNERVES?

This simply cannot be tolerated.

None of this shit.

And look at the other headlines -- all about Obama's student loan bullshit. The natives are getting restless, spread some propaganda headlines about what he's gonna do for student loans that he's NEVER GONNA ACTUALLY DO and that WON'T ADDRESS ANY OF THE BASIC PROBLEMS WHATSOFUCKINGEVER.

Look at the one headline over to the right under "top stories". Obama's Student Loan Debt-Relief Plan: Too Good To Be True?

What bullshit.

[Plutonia]

Marine, Navy, Army and Airforce Veterans and Police Vow to Protect Innocent Protesters

In response to the police brutality against peaceful American protesters – here, here, here, here, here and here – military and police groups are forming to protect American citizens.

In fact, many in the military support the protests (and see this).

As of today, OccupyMarines, Occupy Police, Occupy Navy, Occupy Airforce, and Occupy Army have formed to protect the people against police brutality.

After Veterans for Peace member Scott Olsen – a Marine Corps veteran twice deployed to Iraq – was critically wounded in the Occupy Oakland protest, Occupy Marines tweeted:

WHEN YOU SHOOT ONE MARINE, YOU SHOOT AT ALL OF US. OORAH. Do It Peacefully Occupy We Stand In Solidarity

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/10/ ... ment-15103

Discussion here:

How I feel, as a United States Marine, about what occurred in Oakland.
http://www.reddit.com/r/occupywallstree ... bout_what/

[Plutonia]

Also this:

ThatSarahSnyder Sarah Snyder

This gives me chills/tears RT Egyptian revolutionaries announced they will march in #Tahrir on Oct 28th in solidarity with #occupyoakland

34 minutes ago

[Plutonia]

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OCTOBER 26, 2011
Official VFP Statement Regarding Occupy Incident in Oakland

Veteran For Peace member, Scott Olsen, a Marine Corps veteran twice deployed to Iraq, is in hospital now in stable but serious condition with a fractured skull, struck by a police projectile fired into a crowd in downtown Oakland, California in the early morning hours of today. Other people were injured in the assault and many were arrested after Oakland police in riot gear were ordered to evict people encamped in the ongoing "Occupy Oakland" movement. Olsen is also a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War.

VFP members are involved with dozens of these local "occupy movement" encampments and we support them fully. In Boston, for example, our members, wearing VFP shirts and carrying VFP flags, stood between a line of police and the encampment, urging police to "join the 99%" and not evict the protesters. In that case, several of our members were banged and bruised when the police decided instead to carry out their eviction orders.

In Oakland, last night, a similar thing happened, according to VFP Chapter 69 member and Navy veteran, Joshua Sheperd, who said he went to downtown Oakland "to see if, as a VFP member, I could help still the anger...to be between the police and the protesters...it seemed unconscionable to me that the police use the cover of darkness like that to do what they were doing." Fortunately, he was not injured in the police assault that left Olsen with a fractured skull

As with virtually every example of the occupy movement across the country, those encamped were conducting themselves peacefully beforehand, protesting current economic, social and environmental conditions in the U.S. brought about by decades of corporate control, a criminal financial industry and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that are driving the U.S. global empire into bankruptcy. These "occupy movement" participants are telling us something we need very desperately to hear. They should be listened to, not arrested and brutalized.

Police in the majority of cities are acting with restraint and humanity towards the encampments, but Veterans For Peace will not be deterred by police who choose to use brutal tactics. In fact, as happens with repression everywhere, more people join the cause. We do believe that the rank and file police officers are part of the 99%, the overwhelming majority of Americans who are suffering at the hands of an intolerable system. Layoffs and cutbacks in city after city prove that we must join together to demand justice for all.

We send our very best to Scott Olsen and his family and wish him a speedy recovery to health.

We shall not be moved.

http://www.veteransforpeace.org/news_detail.php?idx=123
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Mr Keith Smith: http://t.co/alIlZiFV via @twitpic Pic of veteran fighting for his life in Oakland after being shot in head by police
Oct 27, 2011, 11:04 UTC
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Michael Patrick MacD: 3000 re-take the Plaza in Oakland.2000 gather to protect OccupySF from police raid. #OWS #WhatDemocracyLooksLike http://t.co/5S9t67P0
Oct 27, 2011, 10:09 UTC
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David N. Drake: Oakland police deny using rubber bullets… this protester must be holding rabbit shit then: http://t.co/ZXUFrnB3
Oct 27, 2011, 09:51 UTC
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pluginres: Woman sketches police in riot gear at Oscar Grant Plaza @occupyoakland Oct 25 after police #violence occurred in the AM http://t.co/MYGpsIDK
Oct 27, 2011, 08:59 UTC
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sybian 6oh2: @Xylotone here is a pic from #occupyoakland earlier tonight 24 hours after police in riot gear tear gassed them! http://t.co/a4YqlyYU
Oct 27, 2011, 07:44 UTC
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Matt Fisher: WTF… Its getting ugly in Oakland. A police 12 ga. cartridge and a rubber bullet. #OccupyOakland http://t.co/fBfjkhnp via @twitpic
Oct 26, 2011, 06:45 UTC
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Hunter Walker: Used tear gas grenade at #occupyoakland people are collecting them http://t.co/E39fe6FO
Oct 26, 2011, 06:03 UTC

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Guy Fawkes: 2 shells and 1 gas grenade used by police at #occupyoakland http://t.co/uhYnrco3
Oct 26, 2011, 05:37 UTC
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Many more great photos/photojournalism here-
http://www.rightnow.io/breaking-news/au ... 53294.html

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[Jeff]

St Paul's Cathedral canon resigns
Giles Fraser quits over plans to forcibly remove Occupy London Stock Exchange protesters from outside cathedral

Riazat Butt, Shiv Malik, Lizzy Davies
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 27 October 2011

The canon chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, the Rev Dr Giles Fraser, has resigned in protest at plans to forcibly remove protesters from its steps, saying he could not support the possibility of "violence in the name of the church".

Speculation grew in the last 24 hours that Fraser, a leading leftwing voice in the Church of England, would resign because he could not sanction the use of police or bailiffs against the hundreds of activists who have set up camp in the grounds of the cathedral in the past fortnight.

Just after 9am on Thursday, Fraser tweeted: "It is with great regret and sadness that I have handed in my notice at St Paul's Cathedral."

In a statement to the Guardian, Fraser, who was appointed canon in May 2009, confirmed his resignation, saying: "I resigned because I believe that the chapter has set on a course of action that could mean there will be violence in the name of the church."

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Fraser quickly became a hero figure among the Occupy the London Stock Exchange (LSX) movement, clearing police officers off the steps of St Paul's and supporting the group's right to peaceful protest after a court injunction stopped it from setting up camp in nearby Paternoster Square. He also delivered a Sunday sermon decrying corporate greed, which was seen as another sign of his endorsement of the protest.

Occupy London said it was "deeply moved" to hear of his resignation.

"He is man of great personal integrity and our thoughts are with him. He respected our right to protest and defended it. For that we are very grateful, as he ensured that St Paul's could be a sanctuary for us and that no violence could take place against peaceful protesters with a legitimate cause – challenging and tackling social and economic injustice in London, the UK and beyond."

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/2 ... on-resigns