Scott Olsen, U.S. Vet Wounded at Occupy Oakland, on Recovery, Protests, Iraq and Bradley Manning

‘OCCUPY OAKLAND’ INJURED VETERAN ASKS DEFENSE SECRETARY FOR PRIVATE INTERVIEW BETWEEN BRADLEY MANNING AND U.N. TORTURE INVESTIGATOR

WASHINGTON, DC – A popular campaign on Change.org launched by veteran Scott Olsen is calling on Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to grant the UN Special Rapporteur for Torture private access to accused Iraq War whistle-blower Bradley Manning to discuss the conditions of his detainment.


http://www.thecypresstimes.com/article/News/National_News/OCCUPY_OAKLAND_INJURED_VETERAN_ASKS_DEFENSE_SECRETARY_FOR_PRIVATE_INTERVIEW_BETWEEN_BRADLEY_MANNING_AND_UN_TORTURE_INVESTIGATOR/54154

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https://www.change.org/petitions/secretary-of-defense-grant-un-rapporteur-on-torture-juan-mendez-access-to-bradley-manning

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U.N. Envoy: U.S. Isn't Protecting Occupy Protesters' Rights

THIS is a great article!!!!!!


WASHINGTON -- The United Nations envoy for freedom of expression is drafting an official communication to the U.S. government demanding to know why federal officials are not protecting the rights of Occupy demonstrators whose protests are being disbanded -- sometimes violently -- by local authorities.


........"Citizens have the right to dissent with the authorities, and there's no need to use public force to silence that dissension," Frank La Rue, who serves as the U.N. "special rapporteur" for the protection of free expression. "The use of police force is legitimate to maintain public order -- but there has to be a danger of real harm, a clear and present danger. And second, there has to be a proportionality of the force employed to prevent a real danger."

........"The demonstrations are treated as if they're presumptively criminal," she said. "Instead of looking at free speech activity as an honored and cherished right that should be supported and facilitated, the reaction of local authorities and police is very frequently to look at it as a crime scene." said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, co-chair of a National Lawyers Guild committee. 


read more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/02/occupy-wall-street-un-envoy_n_1125860.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

Walker Prettyman, 15,

Scott Olsen awarded OWS purple heart

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/10997276/content/88647969-2-purple-hearts

LIVE PIC: @SgtShamarThomas holding poster of Scott Olsen. Several other military vets in uniform here.. #OWS #OP http://pic.twitter.com/o5WqEWrJ

Democracy Now Headlines for November 07, 2011

Kayvan Sabehgi

Second Iraq War Veteran, Occupy Supporter Seriously Injured by Police in Oakland

  

  

In California, the Guardian newspaper has revealed a second Iraq War veteran involved in Occupy Oakland has suffered serious injuries after being beaten by the police. Kayvan Sabehgi, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is in intensive care with a lacerated spleen. He says he was beaten by police close to the Occupy Oakland camp on the same day another Iraq War veteran protester, Scott Olsen, suffered a fractured skull after being shot in the head by a police projectile.

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/7/headlines#7

Scott Olsen, a former Marine, two-time Iraq war veteran, and member of Iraq Veterans Against the War

Late last night, Scott Olsen, a former Marine, two-time Iraq war veteran, and member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, sustained a skull fracture after being shot in the head with a police projectile while peacefully participating in an Occupy Oakland march. He remains unconscious in critical condition at Oakland's Highland Hospital.

http://occupywallst.org/

OccupyMARINES Are Making Demands

http://www.businessinsider.com/marine-scott-olsen-is-to-undergo-brain-surgery-and-occupymarines-make-demands-2011-10

http://youtu.be/zXj-sbzglfw
Call Mayor Quan's office and demand that she investigate this incident and allow peaceful protests to continue: (510) 238-3141


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9u-f4QQdqc&feature=uploademail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqNOPZLw03Q


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45071048/ns/us_news/#.TqpVZXOOi8s


10/27/11 words of Mayor Jean Quan 
http://blog.sfgate.com/aallison/2011/10/27/occupy-oakland-mayor-quan-issues-contrite-statement-after-police-crackdown/

where is the F!@#$%^ NY TIMES NOW????