Thursday, November 17, 2011

OccupyCal Circumvents No Tent Order.

      OccupyCal attached balloons to tents and sent them up in the air.  The ruling was for the park grounds, nobody specified park airspace.  Keep up the good work.

99% Beacon of Light, Shown Brightly on Verizon Building.

  The Bat Signal for the 99% was projected onto the side of the Verizon Building, by Verizon employee's, showing support and prompting cheers and instilling hope in the 30,000 plus protesters in NYC tonight.  A wonderful sight to behold.

Video: NYPD Brutally Beats Peaceful Occupy Protester.

This video comes from our good friend Luke Rudkowski from WeAreChange.


Peaceful protesters Vs. a violent Police State.

Tim Pool from The Other 99, has Live Mobile Feed.

Watch it here live, Occupy Wall Street Protests.  What the mainstream media is hiding from you.

http://www.ustream.tv/TheOther99

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Breaking News: Occupy Dallas Evicted by Riot Police.

   
      Once again, we have another top secret, night time raid on Occupy Dallas protesters, with excessive force and violence, caused by police in riot gear.  Here is a partial timeline courtesy WFAA, Dallas.

1:15a Dallas police have been building their presence around the Occupy Dallas campground for about two hours; many campers left with valuables, but others remain as police issue final warnings. - Jason Whitely, WFAA

1:20a "Frankly, it's a grossly disproportionate use of force," said Jonathan Winocour, an attorney representing Occupy Dallas. "It's very aggressive, in-your face policing. This is reminiscent of some nascent police state." He said this is an act of civil disobedience. "There's a sense that things didn't work out the way we thought they were going to work out," Winocuour said, adding that  he estimated that 15-20 protesters would be arrested.  -Monika Diaz, WFAA


1:30a Dallas City Council member Angela Hunt was alerted to the Occupy Dallas raid by media reports she saw on Twitter. "The police presence here seems very much like overkill and not a very good use of our resources," she said. "I'm troubled that our City Manager did not consult with the City Council prior to taking this action." Hunt said City Manager Mary Suhm sent Council members an e-mail about the police action at 11:45 p.m. "We did not have sufficient notice, nor did the peaceful protesters," Hunt said. "I think this could have been handled in a much better fashion." -Monika Diaz, WFAA




   More information as soon as it is available.  





Support the Occupy Movement, or at Least Their Right to Protest.

      My first blog is dedicated to the Occupy Movement, which inspired me to speak out.  People who do not support the Occupiers First Amendment rights are foolish.  The slippery-slope, that is the erosion of basic freedoms, has quickly become a vertical cliff.  In the last few months we have seen politicians using local police forces as a tool to silence political opposition.  Mayor Bloomberg went as far as to say public safety trumps constitutional rights, which is very convenient, especially considering it is government that constantly defines and re-defines the meaning of 'public safety concerns', to fit whatever agenda they may have at the time.
     The nationwide collaboration of law enforcement to evict most Occupy movements, was a strategic move by the 1% and their new poster boy Bloomberg, to quash the First Amendment rights of ordinary citizens.  While at the same time the US Supreme Court ruled a majority decision, upholding the First Amendment rights of corporations, essentially claiming that money is speech and corporations are people.  This will allow for unfettered political donations with other people's money, including large foreign investors who will ultimately have a legal way to involve themselves in political decisions reserved for American citizens.  A little ironic, considering one of the Occupier's concerns is where does the normal citizen fit in to a corporate America?  A question that is as difficult to answer, as it is abundantly clear, we do not fit.
      Will the Occupy movement bring about change?  Only time will tell, but it encourages me to see thousands of people who have the same concerns as I do.  It inspires me to see people, who possess unwavering fortitude, to stand up for themselves, in the face of an unrelenting police state that no longer keeps the best interest of it's people in mind.  The Occupy movement speaks truth to power and for that I am grateful.