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The full pepperspray scene, that shows those in uniform slither away. I've learnt something about "mic checks" from this one.

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Cleared by an internal investigation but fired.
 
audiotech said:
New York City refuse to defend cop who sprayed OWS protestors.
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In 1,376 federal civil rights cases pending against NYPD officers, the city has refused to cover defense costs in fewer than five per cent of cases, said Goode-Trufant. An attorney representing the pepper spray victims said she believes that the YouTube video of the incident affected the city’s decision not to defend the officer.​
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“If it wasn’t on video, I think it would be another he said-she said case,” the attorney said.​
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But the scene, which clearly shows the officer bringing two harmless protesters to their knees, is a powerful image that may have embarrassed the NYPD and the city, leading to their refusal to be associated with the defendant.​
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Looks like another win for the internet, the cops are going to have to wake-up to the fact that they can't get away with the sort of shit they have for years. :thumbs:
 
S17: All Roads Lead to Wall Street


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On September 17, we will occupy Wall Street with non-violent civil disobedience and flood the area around it with a roving carnival of resistance. After assembling in parks throughout the Financial District at 7am, we will converge on the Stock Exchange at 7:30am and surround it with the “People’s Wall” sit-in. We will then fill the Financial District with “99 Revolutions,” a swirl of mobile occupations of corporate lobbies and intersections. At 10am, the Eco Cluster will gather at Bowling Green to “Storm Wall Street” and demand it stop bankrolling climate change. At 11am, we will assess the day, and decide on how to proceed through direct democratic process. After a period of downtime and spontaneous actions, we will conclude the day at 6pm by holding a Popular Assembly at Foley Square and marching to Liberty Plaza for a final celebration.
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http://s17nyc.org/schedule/s17/
 
Occupy Year II
OWS begins ‘Year II’ with three-day convergence and call to debt resistance

by Yates McKee | September 15, 2012
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The back cover of Tidal, issue 3.
“The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!” cried voices across Zuccotti Park on Wednesday night as 30 people sat with their arms interlocked, surrounded by cameras and sympathetic onlookers. NYPD officers were positioned some distance away at the concrete barricades that had begun surrounding the park. Confronting the sit-in with mock dispersal orders were Sam Corbin and Logan Price, OWS Direct Action trainers tasked with helping to prepare participants for the People’s Wall, a nonviolent civil disobedience action in the Financial District planned for the morning of Monday, September 17.
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http://wagingnonviolence.org/2012/0...-day-convergence-and-call-to-debt-resistance/
 
Occupy Wall Street returns for one-year anniversary as NYPD report arrests

Hundreds estimated to have taken part in weekend protests ahead of major stock exchange action planned for Monday
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NYPD confiscate an Occupy Wall Street banner and arrest protesters who were carrying it on Broadway. Photograph: Julie Dermansky/Corbis
Police in New York have made "multiple" arrests during marches and protests ushering in the first anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Around 300 people were estimated to have taken part in a rally Saturday, which saw activists head towards Zuccotti Park – the lower Manhattan site which served as base camp for months of demonstration.
It was part of three days of action celebrating the anti-capitalist movement, which burst into life a year ago but has long since seen its momentum wane.
The main anniversary event will take place on Monday, when activists are expected to attempt to surround the New York Stock Exchange and disrupt morning rush hour traffic in Manhattan's financial district.
As a precursor to that, marchers took to the streets throughout the weekend in a series of smaller protests.
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Pre-Anniversary Occupy Arrests by the NYPD

By: Kevin Gosztola Sunday September 16, 2012 5:29 pm
There have been over fifty arrests of people at Occupy events to mark the one-year anniversary so far, even though the major protest actions to shut down Wall Street are not until tomorrow.

The above video is a compilation of footage of arrests from Saturday, September 15. The video shows occupiers being snatched and grabbed for doing who knows what. An New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) legal observer is arrested after talking to police. Journalists are threatened with arrest (and at least two were arrested). Twenty-five were reportedly arrested on Saturday.

Known Occupy organizer Aaron Black was apparently targeted for arrest Sunday afternoon by NYPD at Foley Square, the site of a free Occupy anniversary concert. He was snatched up and put into an unmarked car and not read his rights. It was unclear why he was under arrest or—to put it another way—why he was being put in the car.

CODEPINK co-director Rae Abileah, at a protest outside of a Bank of America branch, was singled out by the NYPD and arrested.
DNAinfo.com has more details on her arrest:
Abileah, 29, who is the co-director of the women’s social justice group Code Pink, spoke to DNA.com New York after she was released from the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse, around 3:20 p.m.
She was arrested after she paused in the morning’s march in order to do a “bra toss” — throwing bunch of linked bras in the air — before continuing on. She was directing the effort, when an officer arrested her, she said.
“I had the bra in my hand, and all of a sudden this officer just comes over without any warning, doesn’t ask us to move, doesn’t ask us to leave, grabs me, and starts arresting me,” said Abileah.
“I just kept saying ‘Look, I’m not doing anything wrong,’ and I think the cops could see that, but the commanding officer was totally out of control,” she said.​
To anyone following the policing of the Occupy movement closely, this has become typical of the NYPD: heavy-handed policing, intimidation, harassment and arbitrary arrests that clearly violate the rights of individuals engaged in First Amendment-protected activity.
The NYCLU knows this well and, for anyone interested in the often repeated incidents of harassment and intimidation by law enforcement that fly under the radar and do not make news like instances of excessive force do, the NYCLU has been putting together “Free Speech Threat Assessment” reports since March 17, which clearly document the nature of repression by the police.
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Total amount of Occupy protesters arrested nationwide since the birth of the movement one year ago: at least 7,618, including 181 in New York Monday.

Total amount of bankers convicted since Wall Street’s suprime mortgage fraud and derivatives swindle nearly brought the global economy to its knees and forced the 99% to bail out the 1% to the tune of trillions of dollars: ZERO (0).
 
Leah-Lynn Plante is a Political Prisoner of America

  • by Josh Kinney
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  • published 14 hours ago @ 2:49 pm EST

Josh Kinney
CEO, co-founder, and publisher of INN, graduated with a degree in journalism and writes a column for Atlantic City Weekly. He has interned at The Daily Caller and studied at the Washington Journalism Center on Capitol Hill. He's passionate about creative writing, traveling and prefers to live in a perpetual state of crisis and adventure.
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PORTLAND, Ore. – It’s a story that should be seriously troubling Americans, yet has been widely ignored by the mainstream media.
Thursday morning, 24-year-old Portland activist Leah-Lynn Plante was taken into custody and could remain incarcerated in a U.S. federal prison for 18 months. What exactly has she done to deserve this? The answer is nothing. She has not been charged with a crime.
This kitten-loving, bike-riding, chammomile tea-drinking vegan is being held and treated as an enemy of the state. Why? We’re still not quite sure.
On May Day of this year, a small number of Occupy protesters in Seattle, Wash., caused property damage throughout the city’s downtown. Plante, a self-proclaimed anarchist activist, was not among these protesters nor was she in Seattle at the time. However, on July 25, her home was suddenly raided by the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force, seeking information regarding the protest.
“As if they had taken pointers from Orwell’s 1984, they took books, artwork and other various literature as ‘evidence’ as well as many other personal belongings even though they seemed to know that nobody there was even in Seattle on May Day,” Plante wrote in a blog post published last week on her Tumblr page.
Held at gunpoint and ushered into her backyard, the armed FBI agents who busted down her door demanded that she provide them with “anti-government or anarchist literature” flags and or flag-making material, cell phones, hard drives, address books and black clothing.
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http://infinitynewsnetwork.com/2012/10/15/leah-lynn-plante-is-a-political-prisoner-of-america/
 
Write to Leah-Lynn Plante here:
Leah-Lynn Plante
#42611-086
FDC SeaTac
P.O. Box 13900
Seattle, WA 98198
 
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First and foremost, do not panic.
Leah wanted for us to express these points to you with this news:
  • She is extremely traumatized and experienced a lot of very, very bad things, but she is alive. The state of her mental health is also very bad.
  • She asks that people do not jump to wild conclusions about her release because they do not apply.
  • She spent her whole time in SHU / Administrative Detention (solitary confinement) and was told that that is where she would stay for the duration of her incarceration, up to 18 months. She was classified as “different” from Matt and Kteeo.
  • She received probably near 200 pieces of mail, books, postcards in 4 days (mail was not delivered to her every day) and was glad for it, and knows probably a similar amount is being returned to sender right now. She urges people to step up support for Matt and Kteeo on all fronts. Books that didn’t get to her probably go into the prison library, which is still a good thing because from what we heard their selection is limited to romance novels and religious literature.
  • More information is going to be released. At this time, Leah needs space from media. She is overwhelmed by all the publicity. Regardless of who you are, if you have her personal information, PLEASE do not call her, email her, or try to locate her in order to question her. Give her space until she asks otherwise.
  • She was released the night of 10/17. She did not make it public immediately because she did not want the “media shitstorm” to jump down her throat yet.
  • She is very moved by the amount of support and solidarity there has been for her, she expressed concern that Matt and Kteeo were not getting as much publicity. Please write them, support them, send them books.
Again, to reiterate, more information is going to be released in a few days.
Thank you all for keeping an ear to the ground and for supporting these people.
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http://freeleah.tumblr.com/post/33896448680/official-leah-has-been-released
 
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