Posted on 19 April 2012. Tags: California, glenn dyer jail, joe hoover, occupy oakland, occupy wall street, Police State
[originally posted by Jim Keane at AmericaMagazine.org] Readers of this blog may recall my post from two weeks ago today about Joe Hoover, S.J., a classmate of mine at the Jesuit School of Theology who was found guilty of obstructing a public thoroughfare during an Occupy Oakland march on January 28, 2012. Joe was sentenced [...]
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Posted on 19 March 2012. Tags: Activism, anonymous, art, chalkupy, dandelion, fairy witch, oakland police department, occupy oakland, occupy wall street, oscar grant plaza, scott olsen
UPDATE: Naomi shared this information on the body of an email with the subject line, “Oakland, a Tale of Two Cities.” She said it could be added here. My intention is to help keep those interested updated about what’s going on with this positive community in Oakland. One They had this guy, saw the hurt [...]
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Posted on 03 March 2012. Tags: abraham mckenzie, Ademo Freeman, Alex Hodge, copblock.org, greenfield police department, james atkins, john stossel, jones county sheriffs department, Motorhome Diaries, occupy wall street, Pete Eyre, Police State, Todd M. Dodge, Transparency, Update, wiretapping
Last week Ademo posted about John Stossel’s special “Illegal Everything” as it included footage of our unjust arrests when passing through Jones County, MS in May of 2009 and when attempting to bail out friends in Greenfield, MA in July of 2010. Also included in the Stossel segment was a clip from an interview shot [...]
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Posted on 24 November 2011. Tags: cop block, copblock.org, joshua katz, occupy wall street, peace officer, police, police officers, policing, protection
The time has come for you to make a choice. You must choose where you stand. You must take a stand and decide what society you wish to live in. Do not tell us that you follow orders, we dealt with that one decades ago. We don’t want to hear that policies are set far [...]
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Posted on 24 November 2011. Tags: arbitrary authority, chris ernesto, cop block, individual rights, James Cox, larken rose, occupy arrests, occupy wall street, occupyarrests.com, peace freedom and prosperity, Pete Eyre, Police brutality, stpeteforpeace.org, strike the root
On September 17th, disillusioned individuals gathered in a lower Manhattan park and spawned the Occupy Wall Street movement, which now has a presence in over 1,000 cities and towns worldwide. Those involved represent a diversity of views – from those who wish to control the violence of the State for their own purposes, to those [...]
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Posted on 18 November 2011. Tags: abusive cops, anonymous, cop block, copblock.org, freedom, information, New York City, nypd, occupy wall street, peace, Police State, protest
Anonymous, who’s structure is similar – if not identical – to CopBlock.org’s (decentralized), is seeking the information of New York City Police Officers who abuse protestors. They’ve asked for as many photos and videos as possible (including any information you can add) so they can start to hold those abusing peaceful people accountable. I’m not [...]
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Posted on 15 November 2011. Tags: freedom, Freedom of speech, liberty plaza, new york police, nypd, occupy, occupy wall street, ows, Police State, protestors, rights
Reports and videos are still coming in but it seems that the NYPD was ordered to clear Liberty Plaza (ie – Zuccitti Park) this morning. Below are a few videos I’ve found thus far from the raid. Please leave more as comments or feel free to submit them via the tab above. Media Coverage: YouTube [...]
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Posted on 10 November 2011. Tags: assault, attack, beating, Berkeley police beat students, California, college, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Filming police, occupy wall street, Police brutality, protest, students, university
According to SFGATE.COM Dozens of campus police in riot gear descended on students in a violent confrontation outside UC Berkeley’s Sproul Hall on Wednesday and arrested seven protesters as they tried to set up an “Occupy Cal” encampment. The protesters were among about 1,000 students, faculty and Occupy activists participating in a statewide protest that [...]
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