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Thursday, December 1, 2011

30 Journalists Arrested Covering Occupy Movement

http://www.care2.com/causes/30-journalists-arrested-covering-occupy-movement.html

Hey Mayor Bloomberg, I think Your confused!!!!

You do not have "the 7th largest Army" aka the NYPD.

Kamran Loghman, the creator of Pepper Spray, is shocked that you are using it on peaceful protesters.

You can not declare a "non First Amendment Zone" on the street where you live.

You can not limit protesters to a “free-speech/frozen zone” marked by police barricades and keep them against their wishes.

Since becoming Mayor in 2001 your personal fortune has increased from $4 Billion to $17 Billion. I think that is called stealing.

AND, BTW....Thank-you for occupying Liberty/Zuccotti with NYPD. Since that base is covered other occupiers can cover other bases and the NYPD doesn't even know they are occupying.

Free Press delivered a petition with more than 40,000 signatures to you Mayor Michael Bloomberg as well as Los Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, president of the United States Conference of Mayors. The petition calls on US mayors to protect First Amendment rights and to protect journalists covering the Occupy movement.

WSJ 12/15/11

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203893404577098853434204024.html

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Pepper-Spray Creator Decries Use of Chemical Agent on Peaceful Occupy Wall Street Protesters

UPDATE 12/2/11

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/01/investigation-of-uc-davis-wall-street-ties_n_1123466.html

Pepper Spray Investigation Lead By Group That Works For Wall Street Firms

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/29/pepper_spray_creator_decries_use_of

http://peppersprayingcop.tumblr.com/post/13105427557/in-espana-we-can-sit-wherever-we-want-unless-we

http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/11/image-as-interest-how-the-pepper-spray-cop-could-change-the-trajectory-of-occupy-wall-street/

We speak with Kamran Loghman, the expert who developed weapons-grade pepper-spray, who says he was shocked at how police have used the chemical agent on non-violent Occupy Wall Street protesters nationwide — including students at University of California, Davis, female protesters in New York City, and an 84-year old activist in Seattle. “I saw it and the first thing that came to my mind wasn’t police or students, it was my own children sitting down having an opinion and they’re being shot and forced by chemical agents,” says Loghman, who in the 1980s helped the FBI develop weapons-grade pepper -spray, and collaborated with police departments to develop guidelines for its use. “The use was just absolutely out of the ordinary and it was not in accordance with any training or policy of any department that I know of. I personally certified 4,000 police officers in the early ‘80s and ‘90s and I have never seen this before. That’s why I was shocked... I feel is my civic duty to explain to the public that this is not what pepper spray was developed for.”

Friday, November 25, 2011

Crackdown on Occupy

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy

The mainstream media was declaring continually "OWS has no message". Frustrated, I simply asked them. I began soliciting online "What is it you want?" answers from Occupy. In the first 15 minutes, I received 100 answers. These were truly eye-opening.

The No 1 agenda item: get the money out of politics. Most often cited was legislation to blunt the effect of the Citizens United ruling, which lets boundless sums enter the campaign process. No 2: reform the banking system to prevent fraud and manipulation, with the most frequent item being to restore the Glass-Steagall Act – the Depression-era law, done away with by President Clinton, that separates investment banks from commercial banks. This law would correct the conditions for the recent crisis, as investment banks could not take risks for profit that create kale derivatives out of thin air, and wipe out the commercial and savings banks.

No 3 was the most clarifying: draft laws against the little-known loophole that currently allows members of Congress to pass legislation affecting Delaware-based corporations in which they themselves are investors.

When I saw this list – and especially the last agenda item – the scales fell from my eyes. Of course, these unarmed people would be having the shit kicked out of them.