If they own them its theirs to wear IMHO. They do have to turn in their badge right? So a person in a uniform without a badge is not impersonating a officer. (if it is than a lot of strippers are breaking that law)
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Posted 14 February 2012 - 12:09 AM
Not sure about the badge, I think I still have mine from my days as a C.O.
I can't see it being legal to dress as a cop even without the badge, maybe the patch on the sleeve or the medals?
He looks like he has the full uniform here
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Posted 14 February 2012 - 12:40 PM
Conservative protesters 'occupy' Occupy DC
On a chilly Monday morning in Freedom Plaza, David Almasi began the occupation of Occupy DC.
As occupations go, this wasn't one for the record books, but Almasi, the executive director of the National Center for Public Policy Research, was undeterred.
The cold and a nasty flu going around this weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference took a toll, and only two dozen conservatives showed up to claim space in Freedom Plaza next to the Occupy DC camp.
The important thing, Almasi said, was to get out the message. And that message, essentially, is that Occupiers staked out in public parks for four months to protest corporate greed were doing it wrong.
"It's conservative speakers coming out to educate Occupiers," said Tom Borelli, director of the Free Enterprise Project. "Big government and crony capitalism is the problem, not capitalism."
"Occupy Occupy DC" (the event's official name) was born on a whim in November. That's when Almasi heard that Occupiers got a permit to remain at Freedom Plaza and applied for one of his own. The National Park Service granted him permission to spend five weeks next to Occupy.
Before long, conservatives were picking up pointers from Occupy, learning to do a "mic check," the call-and-response system Occupy popularized. Almasi even brought his own tents -- child-sized Lil Nursery tents he placed around a makeshift podium -- to mimic Occupy.
In time, bemused Occupiers and conservatives were shaking hands and bonding over their mutual disdain for government bailouts. Occupy's Anarchist Alliance set up a sign reading "Welcome, NCPPR!" A conservative held up a sign, "Can't we all get along?"
"I can be in solidarity with no bailouts, no crony capitalism," said Occupier James Hill. "We can disagree later -- we have real problems now. There was small turnout, but it shows how much power and potential this movement can have."
The next five weeks are uncertain, but Almasi said he's pleased to be protesting alongside Occupy.
"We don't want to take anyone's thunder from them," he laughed. "We just want to make sure our message gets across as well."
http://washingtonexa...ccupy-dc/270151
On a chilly Monday morning in Freedom Plaza, David Almasi began the occupation of Occupy DC.
As occupations go, this wasn't one for the record books, but Almasi, the executive director of the National Center for Public Policy Research, was undeterred.
The cold and a nasty flu going around this weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference took a toll, and only two dozen conservatives showed up to claim space in Freedom Plaza next to the Occupy DC camp.
The important thing, Almasi said, was to get out the message. And that message, essentially, is that Occupiers staked out in public parks for four months to protest corporate greed were doing it wrong.
"It's conservative speakers coming out to educate Occupiers," said Tom Borelli, director of the Free Enterprise Project. "Big government and crony capitalism is the problem, not capitalism."
"Occupy Occupy DC" (the event's official name) was born on a whim in November. That's when Almasi heard that Occupiers got a permit to remain at Freedom Plaza and applied for one of his own. The National Park Service granted him permission to spend five weeks next to Occupy.
Before long, conservatives were picking up pointers from Occupy, learning to do a "mic check," the call-and-response system Occupy popularized. Almasi even brought his own tents -- child-sized Lil Nursery tents he placed around a makeshift podium -- to mimic Occupy.
In time, bemused Occupiers and conservatives were shaking hands and bonding over their mutual disdain for government bailouts. Occupy's Anarchist Alliance set up a sign reading "Welcome, NCPPR!" A conservative held up a sign, "Can't we all get along?"
"I can be in solidarity with no bailouts, no crony capitalism," said Occupier James Hill. "We can disagree later -- we have real problems now. There was small turnout, but it shows how much power and potential this movement can have."
The next five weeks are uncertain, but Almasi said he's pleased to be protesting alongside Occupy.
"We don't want to take anyone's thunder from them," he laughed. "We just want to make sure our message gets across as well."
http://washingtonexa...ccupy-dc/270151
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Posted 14 February 2012 - 02:45 PM
"It's conservative speakers coming out to educate Occupiers," said Tom Borelli, director of the Free Enterprise Project. "Big government and crony capitalism is the problem, not capitalism."
I'm going to ocuupy, occupy occupy DC as a fiscal conservative and go out and teach the conservatives that the problem is corporatism, crony capitalism is misleading and attempt to revive indirect democracy by showing historically that direct democracy doesn't work.
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Posted 14 February 2012 - 03:04 PM
I'm going to ocuupy, occupy occupy DC as a fiscal conservative and go out and teach the conservatives that the problem is corporatism, crony capitalism is misleading and attempt to revive indirect democracy by showing historically that direct democracy doesn't work.
Let me know how that works for you:smile:
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Posted 14 February 2012 - 05:56 PM
Occupy Oakland Boy, 15, Strangled Foster Parents and Hid Bodies
A 15-year-old has been charged as an adult after admitting strangling his foster parents and hiding their bodies in the family car.
California prosecutors claim that Moses Kamin, a black belt in karate, killed the pair after an argument about the amount of time he was spending at the Occupy Oakland camp.
The bodies of Robert Kamin, 55, and Susan Poff, 50, were found under blankets in the vehicle outside the family home.
Scorch marks were found on the car, suggesting that the suspect had attempted to set the petrol tanks on fire. He was arrested and confessed to strangling the couple.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that he had been adopted within the last 10 years and friends claimed that he frequently clashed with his foster parents.
They argued about the amount of time he was spending at the Occupy Oakland camp, which he ran away to join in November. He was recently suspended from school.
Read more: http://www.ibtimes.c...m#ixzz1mNcnN27t
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Posted 16 February 2012 - 01:51 PM
Occupy Wall Street Plans Fashionable Fashion Week Protest
It's surprising that Occupy Wall Street hasn't yet paid a proper visit to New York Fashion Week, that sparkly distillation of all things 1%. That will change tomorrow, when Occupy Wall Street marches on the last day of Fashion Week, and perhaps attempts to shut down a Calvin Klein show.
Occupy Wall Street plans to arrive at the Calvin Klein show at West 39th St. tomorrow at 2pm, after a long march from lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park. There, they hope to convince 99 attendees of the first of Calvin Klein's two shows to wear dripping red eye makeup, highlighting the plight of the 99 percent in appropriately fashion-y fashion. The red eyes are meant to show solidarity with those students drenched in pepper spray at UC Davis last year, Occupy Wall Street organizer Justin Stone-Diaz told me in a phone interview today.
Occupy Wall Street will have a booth for sympathetic show-goers to get made up. They'll also stage their own Occupy Wall Street fashion show outside Lincoln Center, set, we imagine, to the pounding beat of a drum circle.
But: If protesters don't reach their 99-people-in-red-eye-makeup quota for the 2pm Calvin Klein show, things could get much more heated during the 3pm one.
"If there aren't 99 people at the two o'clock show, we'll decide how we're going to close down [the three o'clock show]," Stone-Diaz said. (And as we've found out, it's not as hard as you might imagine to infiltrate a fashion show.) Occupy Wall Street is always organizationally complex, and in this case the actual shutting down of Calvin Klein will be accomplished by an autonomous entity called the the Queer Transgender Direct Action group, if it happens, according to Stone-Diaz.
The goal of tomorrow's action is to bring the conversation about the 99 percentto the fashion elite, Stone-Diaz said, because the fashion world is too obsessed with the few celebrity designers who show at Fashion Week or appear on reality TV.
"As occupiers, we don't really understand that world the way the people in the fashion industry do," he said. "We know there are people in the fashion world who are going through the same problems we are. A lot of our friends in fashion don't have health insurance, they're working in weird situations."
Occupy Wall Street is a bit last season at this point, but maybe this will spark some interest. We'll be there, to document the meeting of Fashion Week and Occupy Wall Street, two groups opposed in every way except their affinity for tents.
http://gawker.com/58...on-week-protest
It's surprising that Occupy Wall Street hasn't yet paid a proper visit to New York Fashion Week, that sparkly distillation of all things 1%. That will change tomorrow, when Occupy Wall Street marches on the last day of Fashion Week, and perhaps attempts to shut down a Calvin Klein show.
Occupy Wall Street plans to arrive at the Calvin Klein show at West 39th St. tomorrow at 2pm, after a long march from lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park. There, they hope to convince 99 attendees of the first of Calvin Klein's two shows to wear dripping red eye makeup, highlighting the plight of the 99 percent in appropriately fashion-y fashion. The red eyes are meant to show solidarity with those students drenched in pepper spray at UC Davis last year, Occupy Wall Street organizer Justin Stone-Diaz told me in a phone interview today.
Occupy Wall Street will have a booth for sympathetic show-goers to get made up. They'll also stage their own Occupy Wall Street fashion show outside Lincoln Center, set, we imagine, to the pounding beat of a drum circle.
But: If protesters don't reach their 99-people-in-red-eye-makeup quota for the 2pm Calvin Klein show, things could get much more heated during the 3pm one.
"If there aren't 99 people at the two o'clock show, we'll decide how we're going to close down [the three o'clock show]," Stone-Diaz said. (And as we've found out, it's not as hard as you might imagine to infiltrate a fashion show.) Occupy Wall Street is always organizationally complex, and in this case the actual shutting down of Calvin Klein will be accomplished by an autonomous entity called the the Queer Transgender Direct Action group, if it happens, according to Stone-Diaz.
The goal of tomorrow's action is to bring the conversation about the 99 percentto the fashion elite, Stone-Diaz said, because the fashion world is too obsessed with the few celebrity designers who show at Fashion Week or appear on reality TV.
"As occupiers, we don't really understand that world the way the people in the fashion industry do," he said. "We know there are people in the fashion world who are going through the same problems we are. A lot of our friends in fashion don't have health insurance, they're working in weird situations."
Occupy Wall Street is a bit last season at this point, but maybe this will spark some interest. We'll be there, to document the meeting of Fashion Week and Occupy Wall Street, two groups opposed in every way except their affinity for tents.
http://gawker.com/58...on-week-protest
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Posted 17 February 2012 - 12:14 AM
Occupy Wall Street protesters at Fashion Week hindered by rain
A march and protest were planned by Occupy Wall Street organizers for the last day of Fashion Week, but only about 20 people followed through due to inclement weather.
Julie Goldsmith, 29, from Astoria, Queens, was one of the last protesters to leave Calvin Klein's venue at 205 W. 39th St. at around 4 p.m. after a short stint Thursday afternoon.
Goldsmith wore red makeup around her eyes to symbolize protesters who have been pepper sprayed, she said.
"We just wanted to bring awareness to some of the injustices perpetrated by the fashion industry," Goldsmith said. "A lot of women out there and a lot of men too are marginalized by these ideals of beauty that are totally impossible to live up to."
Goldsmith said the cause was personal for her.
"I myself suffered for a long time with body image issues," she said. "I don't want anyone to grow up feeling like they're not good enough."
Goldsmith also named "unfair business practices, elitist attitudes and ethnocentricity" among the reasons protesters rallied against fashion.
Occupier Emily Bruenig, 23, from Upstate New York, argued that animal rights are another issue with the fashion world, telling Newsday that she was against animal testing.
http://www.newsday.c...-rain-1.3536088
A march and protest were planned by Occupy Wall Street organizers for the last day of Fashion Week, but only about 20 people followed through due to inclement weather.
Julie Goldsmith, 29, from Astoria, Queens, was one of the last protesters to leave Calvin Klein's venue at 205 W. 39th St. at around 4 p.m. after a short stint Thursday afternoon.
Goldsmith wore red makeup around her eyes to symbolize protesters who have been pepper sprayed, she said.
"We just wanted to bring awareness to some of the injustices perpetrated by the fashion industry," Goldsmith said. "A lot of women out there and a lot of men too are marginalized by these ideals of beauty that are totally impossible to live up to."
Goldsmith said the cause was personal for her.
"I myself suffered for a long time with body image issues," she said. "I don't want anyone to grow up feeling like they're not good enough."
Goldsmith also named "unfair business practices, elitist attitudes and ethnocentricity" among the reasons protesters rallied against fashion.
Occupier Emily Bruenig, 23, from Upstate New York, argued that animal rights are another issue with the fashion world, telling Newsday that she was against animal testing.
http://www.newsday.c...-rain-1.3536088
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Posted 17 February 2012 - 02:38 PM
Occupy protester charged with kicking Oakland police sergeant
OAKLAND -- An Occupy Oakland protester has been charged criminally for kicking a police sergeant last Saturday night following a peaceful march protesting police brutality.
Stephanie McGarrah, 28, of Fremont, was charged Tuesday with misdemeanor battery, resisting and obstructing arrest, and a probation violation by the Alameda County District Attorney's office for kicking Sgt. Roland Holmgren in the leg following a peaceful Occupy Oakland protest at Frank Ogawa Plaza Saturday night, police said.
Also charged with obstructing arrest was her companion Matthew Henderson, 35, also of Fremont, for trying to pull her away from arresting officers. A third man struck a police sergeant in the head with a picket sign and fled. He was not arrested. Both McGarrah and Henderson are free on bail, according to the Alameda County Sheriff's office records.
The arrests came after a group of about 20 protesters, who were among the estimated 75 that had marched through downtown and West Oakland, surrounded a California Highway Patrol officer who was arresting a motorist for drunken driving. The crowd started angrily shouting, but tensions eased after Oakland police officers arrived at 14th and Clay streets.
As police were leaving, McGarrah was arrested on suspicion of battery after allegedly kicking a police car and Holmgren's leg. He was not seriously injured.
McGarrah is currently on probation following the November 2010 felony arson charge for setting a garbage can on fire during a protest over the killing of Oscar Grant by former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle on New Year's Day 2009. The outcome of that case was not immediately available Thursday.
Aside from the two arrests, the Saturday night march was the second to go off relatively peacefully since a clash between Occupy protesters and Oakland police that led to more than 400 arrests in late January. After the march, protesters broke into and vandalized Oakland City Hall. Days later a judge issued stay away orders against 12 protesters.
http://www.contracos...-oakland-police
OAKLAND -- An Occupy Oakland protester has been charged criminally for kicking a police sergeant last Saturday night following a peaceful march protesting police brutality.
Stephanie McGarrah, 28, of Fremont, was charged Tuesday with misdemeanor battery, resisting and obstructing arrest, and a probation violation by the Alameda County District Attorney's office for kicking Sgt. Roland Holmgren in the leg following a peaceful Occupy Oakland protest at Frank Ogawa Plaza Saturday night, police said.
Also charged with obstructing arrest was her companion Matthew Henderson, 35, also of Fremont, for trying to pull her away from arresting officers. A third man struck a police sergeant in the head with a picket sign and fled. He was not arrested. Both McGarrah and Henderson are free on bail, according to the Alameda County Sheriff's office records.
The arrests came after a group of about 20 protesters, who were among the estimated 75 that had marched through downtown and West Oakland, surrounded a California Highway Patrol officer who was arresting a motorist for drunken driving. The crowd started angrily shouting, but tensions eased after Oakland police officers arrived at 14th and Clay streets.
As police were leaving, McGarrah was arrested on suspicion of battery after allegedly kicking a police car and Holmgren's leg. He was not seriously injured.
McGarrah is currently on probation following the November 2010 felony arson charge for setting a garbage can on fire during a protest over the killing of Oscar Grant by former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle on New Year's Day 2009. The outcome of that case was not immediately available Thursday.
Aside from the two arrests, the Saturday night march was the second to go off relatively peacefully since a clash between Occupy protesters and Oakland police that led to more than 400 arrests in late January. After the march, protesters broke into and vandalized Oakland City Hall. Days later a judge issued stay away orders against 12 protesters.
http://www.contracos...-oakland-police
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Posted 17 February 2012 - 03:10 PM
The heart and soul of the Occupy movement are the protests. These posts are about what goes on at the protests.
You can continue to stick your head up your ass and pretend everything is all unicorns and rainbows but that's not going to change what's actually happening out there.
You can continue to stick your head up your ass and pretend everything is all unicorns and rainbows but that's not going to change what's actually happening out there.
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Posted 17 February 2012 - 03:18 PM
Carter praises Occupy movement
Former President Jimmy Carter said on Wednesday that Occupy organizers have created a "relatively successful" movement because they focused national discussion on wealth disparity despite lacking leadership and a unifying set of goals.
The Georgia Democrat said at an event in Atlanta that Occupy organizers have succeeded in forcing the media and Congress to realize the "chasm is getting greater than leaps and bounds" between the rich and the poor.
"It's been relatively successful even acknowledging there's no leadership, there's no coherence and there's no single list of issues they want to succeed," the former president said of the movement started late last year in lower Manhattan to decry corporate influence in government and wealth inequality.
"That issue was basically ignored by the Congress and the news media a year ago," he said. "I believe they've achieved putting that back on the agenda."
More
http://www.ajc.com/n...nt-1351558.html
Former President Jimmy Carter said on Wednesday that Occupy organizers have created a "relatively successful" movement because they focused national discussion on wealth disparity despite lacking leadership and a unifying set of goals.
The Georgia Democrat said at an event in Atlanta that Occupy organizers have succeeded in forcing the media and Congress to realize the "chasm is getting greater than leaps and bounds" between the rich and the poor.
"It's been relatively successful even acknowledging there's no leadership, there's no coherence and there's no single list of issues they want to succeed," the former president said of the movement started late last year in lower Manhattan to decry corporate influence in government and wealth inequality.
"That issue was basically ignored by the Congress and the news media a year ago," he said. "I believe they've achieved putting that back on the agenda."
More
http://www.ajc.com/n...nt-1351558.html
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Posted 17 February 2012 - 03:21 PM
Jack, you're implying his head was ever removed from there.You can continue to stick your head up your ass
Charles Koch, employees reveal e-mailed threats from past year
Charles Koch, his brother and employees have in recent months been getting death threats, hundreds of obscenity-laced hate messages, and harassment from some far left-wing groups, Koch said on Thursday.
“We are under attack from various directions, both with threats of violence against us personally, and with threats of attacks on our businesses,” Charles Koch said Thursday, in a phone interview from his office in Wichita.
Koch, the billionaire head of Koch Industries, rarely gives interviews, especially about the various political causes that he and his brother David support. The privately held company rarely releases information about its activities.
On Thursday, Charles Koch authorized employees to reveal the contents of hundreds of e-mails that the Kochs and employees have received in the last year, some of them containing death threats. “I hope you all DIE,” one e-mail, received last year, said. “You people are ruining our country, and all for $$$.” “Choose your expiration Date, Brothers…” said another. “The Koch brothers will DIE!!!!!” said another.
There were hundreds more — some from Wisconsin, where the Kochs were accused of aiding Gov. Scott Walker in his disputes against unions. Most of them were signed with what appear to be real names, many contained obscenities, and some Koch employees said these messages had made them nervous.
‘Occupy Koch Town’
Because of the threats the Kochs have seen in recent months, company representatives have had considerable conversations with Wichita police. They decided to speak out Thursday, only two days before hundreds of “Occupy Koch Town” protesters might show up outside the Koch Industries building in north Wichita. Activists will gather this weekend in Wichita to attend a series of events that will focus on the Keystone Pipeline as well as energy, environmental and climate policies.
Yvonne Cather of Wichita, who is conservation chairwoman of the Kansas chapter of the Sierra Club, one of the groups organizing the weekend gathering, said the Koch people are overreacting to the planned activities. “The Sierra Club prides itself on high integrity, so violence is not the way we want to get our point across,” she said.
Most of the death threats came in months ago. What prompted the decision to comment publicly now, said Melissa Cohlmia, a spokeswoman for Koch Industries, was that they were told that some of the protesters coming into town this weekend are from the “Occupy Oakland” movement that tried to shut down the port of Oakland. But Cather said none of the people gathering this weekend are from Oakland. “One person is from South Dakota,” she said.
More at the link.
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Posted 17 February 2012 - 03:39 PM
Yeah, who knows who is making the threats. the way the Koch bros. have entangled themselves in the uncivil political discourse of today, they have made plenty of enemies. Still, the article is an interesting read and referred to the movement, so instead of "start a thread" on it, I put it here.
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Posted 17 February 2012 - 11:00 PM
It's nice when a protest truly is peaceful 
Berkeley: Police clear out small Occupy Cal encampment
BERKELEY -- University police cleared out a roving Occupy Cal camp early Friday morning, with the campers disbanding peacefully and with no arrests, police said.
The encampment consisted of 14 tents and 17 occupants and had settled in front of Doe Library after previously taking up space in front of Sproul Hall, the campus administration building. The campers were left alone for several days until Friday's 5 a.m. action.
Occupy Cal claimed via Twitter that one person had been arrested, but UCPD Lt. Mark DeCoulode said no one was arrested. He said the campers were briefly detained and given the option to leave or be cited, and they chose to leave. They were allowed to take along their belongings, but some items were left behind, DeCoulode said.
He added that seven of the 17 occupiers were UC Berkeley students. Friday's clearing was in stark contrast to their actions involving a much larger encampment last November, where student injuries at the hands of officers drew national scrutiny onto the campus and overall UC system's response to Occupy activities, including the pepper-spraying of protesters at UC Davis.
http://www.mercuryne...upy/ci_19988320
Berkeley: Police clear out small Occupy Cal encampment
BERKELEY -- University police cleared out a roving Occupy Cal camp early Friday morning, with the campers disbanding peacefully and with no arrests, police said.
The encampment consisted of 14 tents and 17 occupants and had settled in front of Doe Library after previously taking up space in front of Sproul Hall, the campus administration building. The campers were left alone for several days until Friday's 5 a.m. action.
Occupy Cal claimed via Twitter that one person had been arrested, but UCPD Lt. Mark DeCoulode said no one was arrested. He said the campers were briefly detained and given the option to leave or be cited, and they chose to leave. They were allowed to take along their belongings, but some items were left behind, DeCoulode said.
He added that seven of the 17 occupiers were UC Berkeley students. Friday's clearing was in stark contrast to their actions involving a much larger encampment last November, where student injuries at the hands of officers drew national scrutiny onto the campus and overall UC system's response to Occupy activities, including the pepper-spraying of protesters at UC Davis.
http://www.mercuryne...upy/ci_19988320
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‘Occupy CPAC’ protesters paid $60 for the day
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http://dailycaller.c...uiv7m1g4lZKnVE7
Protesters at Friday’s “Occupy CPAC” event, organized by AFL-CIO and the Occupy DC movement, told The Daily Caller that they were paid “sixty bucks a head” to protest outside the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.
One protester told TheDC that all the “Occupy” activists were being paid to protest, and that his union, Sheet Metal Workers Local 100, approached him about the money-making opportunity.
“I have nothing nice to say about Local 100. … They just told me ‘you wanna make sixty bucks? So c’mon,’” the protester said.
Other “Occupy CPAC” protesters were unwilling to speak on camera because they were unaware what they were protesting and what the CPAC event was about.
Read more: http://dailycaller.c.../#ixzz1mlCuvgCc
Video
http://dailycaller.c...uiv7m1g4lZKnVE7
Protesters at Friday’s “Occupy CPAC” event, organized by AFL-CIO and the Occupy DC movement, told The Daily Caller that they were paid “sixty bucks a head” to protest outside the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.
One protester told TheDC that all the “Occupy” activists were being paid to protest, and that his union, Sheet Metal Workers Local 100, approached him about the money-making opportunity.
“I have nothing nice to say about Local 100. … They just told me ‘you wanna make sixty bucks? So c’mon,’” the protester said.
Other “Occupy CPAC” protesters were unwilling to speak on camera because they were unaware what they were protesting and what the CPAC event was about.
Read more: http://dailycaller.c.../#ixzz1mlCuvgCc
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Posted 20 February 2012 - 04:21 PM
OSFV MOCK TRIAL FEB. 20
Occupy San Fernando Valley will be holding a Mock Trial on our past and current President, Bush and Obama.
Our purpose is to educate the community on the laws that our Presidents have broken in a humor yet educating way.
We will be joined by " The Billionaires" as our Presidents defense.
Don't you think that enough is enough?
We need to hold our president's accountable for the things they do in our name "We the People".
Obama signing the N.D.A.A. Was against our rights.....
UN-constitutional !
Bush has endless list of crimes against humanity.
We need to bring this to the attention of the Public
The time is now...
Join us as we bring justice to the people!!!
"We the people" vs. Former president Bush (12-1:30pm) approx.
charges :
Extraordinary rendition
Murder
Torture
"We the people " vs. current president Obama (2:00-3:30pm)approx.
Charges:
Accepting Bribes
Murder
NDAA
non vegan/vegan food , Music, Entertainment, Education, and Humor
Occupy Presidents Day
February 20th 2012 Monday
12-4pm
We hope you all can join us
http://www.occupylos...rg/?q=node/8420
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Posted 20 February 2012 - 06:26 PM
Occupy asked to leave the Green
If City Hall has its way, Occupy New Haven may soon leave its home on the New Haven Green.
Two meetings were held at City Hall on Feb. 8 and Feb. 15 to discuss the future of Occupy New Haven, the anti-economic inequality protest that has been encamped on the Green since mid-October. Members of the municipal government have argued that the presence of the protesters on the Green is limiting others
If City Hall has its way, Occupy New Haven may soon leave its home on the New Haven Green.
Two meetings were held at City Hall on Feb. 8 and Feb. 15 to discuss the future of Occupy New Haven, the anti-economic inequality protest that has been encamped on the Green since mid-October. Members of the municipal government have argued that the presence of the protesters on the Green is limiting others
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 03:00 PM
Occupy Oakland, then lock and load
Occupy Oakland activists have filed a lawsuit against Oakland and are seeking damages. The ACLU-backed suit argues that protesters are engaged in "peaceful expressive activity," while Oakland police have used "excessive force" that has inflicted "mental stress" on activists. The lawsuit also complains that police have not sufficiently warned activists before dispersal orders. Thus Occupiers "did not have an opportunity to gather their belongings and leave the camp without being arrested or harmed."
Of course, participants are aware that when they trespass on others' property or block streets to keep people from getting to work that police are supposed to arrest them. Yet, they whine that they aren't given enough warning to get away - with all their stuff.
It's copacetic when Occupy is violent. Its website has announced that certain protests would be "militant" and those who "identify as peaceful" may want to stay home. Occupiers describe their mix of peaceful and hostile protests as a "diversity of tactics" - which is doublespeak for violent anarchists hiding behind clueless lefties.
It's asymmetrical warfare. In the rest of the world, the dissident who fights City Hall is the hopelessly outgunned underdog. In Oakland, City Hall is the underdog.
When activists first pitched their tents on Frank Ogawa Plaza in the first half of October, members of the Oakland City Council welcomed them. After two weeks, the illegal encampment was a health nightmare - as well as toxic for local merchants. Mayor Jean Quan finally told police to remove the tents in front of City Hall on Oct. 25. After Iraq war veteran Scott Olsen was injured and out-of-town liberal wags chastised the mayor, Quan invited Occupy back.
Since November, Occupy protests have been both peaceful and lawless. Police generally have refrained from making arrests unless a protest turns ugly. On Jan. 28, authorities arrested 400 protesters.
Quan's office estimates Occupy's cost to city coffers at close to $3 million. The unquantifiable cost is the diversion of an understaffed Police Department in a city that experienced a homicide rate of 26.4 last year - more than four times the rate in San Francisco. Quan spokeswoman Sue Piper laments that on one night in January, when police were busy with Occupy protests, there were 482 calls to 911.
No worries. The City Council essentially handcuffed the police this month when it failed to pass a resolution to beef up law enforcement against those who assemble without a permit and block streets. Thus, Occupiers know they can close down the Port of Oakland and infringe on the rights of other people to go to work without much hassle from the authorities.
Oakland has few defenses. Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley charged eight people with misdemeanor counts and four with felony offenses relating to the Jan. 28 demonstration. In addition, her department has sought and won stay-away orders against 14 Occupiers believed responsible for "violent conduct or conduct that involved destruction," Deputy District Attorney Teresa Drenick explained.
Drenick says the district attorney's office is serious about winning prosecutions. That's great, but trials take a long time.
So, on one side you have hundreds, at times thousands, of individuals who know they can trample Oaktown and provide cover for anarchists who throw things at police - with little downside.
On the other side is a gaggle of flower-power appeasers, flanked by a hobbled Police Department with a checkered history, and prosecutors who have to preface every statement about enforcing the law with an homage to free speech.
ACLU attorney Linda Lye told me that the suit is intended to enforce existing policies. And: "As a matter of constitutional law, there is a difference between engaging in illegal activity, such as trespass for which you can be arrested because of conduct, and engaging in activity that presents a real risk of substantial harm, for which police can use some force on you." Which sounds like: Oakland PD is supposed to beg on bended knee until Occupiers taking over buildings turn themselves in.
The future of Oakland then will be Phil Tagami. On Nov. 2, as masked vandals ran through Oakland setting fires and vandalizing property, the developer and active Democrat stood with a shotgun to keep the rioters from breaking into Oakland's iconic Rotunda building. At great personal risk, he saved the building.
Just weeks ago, Tagami reminded me, an armed robber tried to hold up taco truck owner Omar Casillas in the Fruitvale neighborhood. Casillas was armed. The two shot each other.
"I don't want to have a gun locker in my office," Tagami told me. But he has been threatened.
And unlike Oakland City Hall, Tagami is free to defend himself.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.co...L#ixzz1n1qXSWbY
Occupy Oakland activists have filed a lawsuit against Oakland and are seeking damages. The ACLU-backed suit argues that protesters are engaged in "peaceful expressive activity," while Oakland police have used "excessive force" that has inflicted "mental stress" on activists. The lawsuit also complains that police have not sufficiently warned activists before dispersal orders. Thus Occupiers "did not have an opportunity to gather their belongings and leave the camp without being arrested or harmed."
Of course, participants are aware that when they trespass on others' property or block streets to keep people from getting to work that police are supposed to arrest them. Yet, they whine that they aren't given enough warning to get away - with all their stuff.
It's copacetic when Occupy is violent. Its website has announced that certain protests would be "militant" and those who "identify as peaceful" may want to stay home. Occupiers describe their mix of peaceful and hostile protests as a "diversity of tactics" - which is doublespeak for violent anarchists hiding behind clueless lefties.
It's asymmetrical warfare. In the rest of the world, the dissident who fights City Hall is the hopelessly outgunned underdog. In Oakland, City Hall is the underdog.
When activists first pitched their tents on Frank Ogawa Plaza in the first half of October, members of the Oakland City Council welcomed them. After two weeks, the illegal encampment was a health nightmare - as well as toxic for local merchants. Mayor Jean Quan finally told police to remove the tents in front of City Hall on Oct. 25. After Iraq war veteran Scott Olsen was injured and out-of-town liberal wags chastised the mayor, Quan invited Occupy back.
Since November, Occupy protests have been both peaceful and lawless. Police generally have refrained from making arrests unless a protest turns ugly. On Jan. 28, authorities arrested 400 protesters.
Quan's office estimates Occupy's cost to city coffers at close to $3 million. The unquantifiable cost is the diversion of an understaffed Police Department in a city that experienced a homicide rate of 26.4 last year - more than four times the rate in San Francisco. Quan spokeswoman Sue Piper laments that on one night in January, when police were busy with Occupy protests, there were 482 calls to 911.
No worries. The City Council essentially handcuffed the police this month when it failed to pass a resolution to beef up law enforcement against those who assemble without a permit and block streets. Thus, Occupiers know they can close down the Port of Oakland and infringe on the rights of other people to go to work without much hassle from the authorities.
Oakland has few defenses. Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley charged eight people with misdemeanor counts and four with felony offenses relating to the Jan. 28 demonstration. In addition, her department has sought and won stay-away orders against 14 Occupiers believed responsible for "violent conduct or conduct that involved destruction," Deputy District Attorney Teresa Drenick explained.
Drenick says the district attorney's office is serious about winning prosecutions. That's great, but trials take a long time.
So, on one side you have hundreds, at times thousands, of individuals who know they can trample Oaktown and provide cover for anarchists who throw things at police - with little downside.
On the other side is a gaggle of flower-power appeasers, flanked by a hobbled Police Department with a checkered history, and prosecutors who have to preface every statement about enforcing the law with an homage to free speech.
ACLU attorney Linda Lye told me that the suit is intended to enforce existing policies. And: "As a matter of constitutional law, there is a difference between engaging in illegal activity, such as trespass for which you can be arrested because of conduct, and engaging in activity that presents a real risk of substantial harm, for which police can use some force on you." Which sounds like: Oakland PD is supposed to beg on bended knee until Occupiers taking over buildings turn themselves in.
The future of Oakland then will be Phil Tagami. On Nov. 2, as masked vandals ran through Oakland setting fires and vandalizing property, the developer and active Democrat stood with a shotgun to keep the rioters from breaking into Oakland's iconic Rotunda building. At great personal risk, he saved the building.
Just weeks ago, Tagami reminded me, an armed robber tried to hold up taco truck owner Omar Casillas in the Fruitvale neighborhood. Casillas was armed. The two shot each other.
"I don't want to have a gun locker in my office," Tagami told me. But he has been threatened.
And unlike Oakland City Hall, Tagami is free to defend himself.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.co...L#ixzz1n1qXSWbY
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 03:38 PM
Mad, Passionate Love -- and Violence
Occupy Heads into the Spring
By Rebecca Solnit
Read the rest at the link. A pretty good write up overall. Although the author does marginalize some things in a favorable to her opinion manner. She certainly doesn't stand alone on that front these days...
Occupy Heads into the Spring
By Rebecca Solnit
When you fall in love, it’s all about what you have in common, and you can hardly imagine that there are differences, let alone that you will quarrel over them, or weep about them, or be torn apart by them -- or if all goes well, struggle, learn, and bond more strongly because of, rather than despite, them. The Occupy movement had its glorious honeymoon when old and young, liberal and radical, comfortable and desperate, homeless and tenured all found that what they had in common was so compelling the differences hardly seemed to matter.
Until they did.
Revolutions are always like this: at first all men are brothers and anything is possible, and then, if you’re lucky, the romance of that heady moment ripens into a relationship, instead of a breakup, an abusive marriage, or a murder-suicide. Occupy had its golden age, when those who never before imagined living side-by-side with homeless people found themselves in adjoining tents in public squares.
All sorts of other equalizing forces were present, not least the police brutality that battered the privileged the way that inner-city kids are used to being battered all the time. Part of what we had in common was what we were against: the current economy and the principle of insatiable greed that made it run, as well as the emotional and economic privatization that accompanied it.
This is a system that damages people, and its devastation was on display as never before in the early months of Occupy and related phenomena like the “We are the 99%” website. When it was people facing foreclosure, or who’d lost their jobs, or were thrashing around under avalanches of college or medical debt, they weren’t hard to accept as us, and not them.
And then came the people who’d been damaged far more, the psychologically fragile, the marginal, and the homeless -- some of them endlessly needy and with a huge capacity for disruption. People who had come to fight the power found themselves staying on to figure out available mental-health resources, while others who had wanted to experience a democratic society on a grand scale found themselves trying to solve sanitation problems.
And then there was the violence.
The Faces of Violence
The most important direct violence Occupy faced was, of course, from the state, in the form of the police using maximum sub-lethal force on sleepers in tents, mothers with children, unarmed pedestrians, young women already penned up, unresisting seated students, poets, professors, pregnant women, wheelchair-bound occupiers, and octogenarians. It has been a sustained campaign of police brutality from Wall Street to Washington State the likes of which we haven’t seen in 40 years.
On the part of activists, there were also a few notable incidents of violence in the hundreds of camps, especially violence against women. The mainstream media seemed to think this damned the Occupy movement, though it made the camps, at worst, a whole lot like the rest of the planet, which, in case you hadn’t noticed, seethes with violence against women. But these were isolated incidents.
That old line of songster Woody Guthrie is always handy in situations like this: “Some will rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen.” The police have been going after occupiers with projectile weapons, clubs, and tear gas, sending some of them to the hospital and leaving more than a few others traumatized and fearful. That’s the six-gun here.
But it all began with the fountain pens, slashing through peoples’ lives, through national and international economies, through the global markets. These were wielded by the banksters, the “vampire squid,” the deregulators in D.C., the men -- and with the rarest of exceptions they were men -- who stole the world.
That’s what Occupy came together to oppose, the grandest violence by scale, the least obvious by impact. No one on Wall Street ever had to get his suit besmirched by carrying out a foreclosure eviction himself. Cities provided that service for free to the banks (thereby further impoverishing themselves as they created new paupers out of old taxpayers). And the police clubbed their opponents for them, over and over, everywhere across the United States.
The grand thieves invented ever more ingenious methods, including those sliced and diced derivatives, to crush the hopes and livelihoods of the many. This is the terrible violence that Occupy was formed to oppose. Don’t ever lose sight of that.
Oakland’s Beautiful Nonviolence
Now that we’re done remembering the major violence, let’s talk about Occupy Oakland. A great deal of fuss has been made about two incidents in which mostly young people affiliated with Occupy Oakland damaged some property and raised some hell.
Read the rest at the link. A pretty good write up overall. Although the author does marginalize some things in a favorable to her opinion manner. She certainly doesn't stand alone on that front these days...
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 05:18 PM
Occupy Wall Street protester John Scott DeKuyper brings gun to court date
Occupier arrested in October for trying to yank badge off of NYPD Chief of Department Joseph Esposito
This Occupy Wall Street protester is definitely not among the 1%
Occupier arrested in October for trying to yank badge off of NYPD Chief of Department Joseph Esposito
This Occupy Wall Street protester is definitely not among the 1%
#1950
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- VibeTribe
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Posted 24 February 2012 - 01:28 PM
NY Occupy protester's tweets at heart of privacy clash
Manhattan prosecutor wants to subpoena tweets sent by a demonstrator facing a disorderly conduct charge
An Occupy Wall Street protester and prosecutors are tussling over his tweets, a clash that's raising legal issues of privacy in an age of living online.
The contest has sounded alarms among electronic privacy advocates, who see ominous overreaching in the Manhattan prosecutor's efforts to subpoena tweets sent by a demonstrator facing a disorderly conduct charge. The protester's lawyer is trying to block the subpoena, calling it an infringement on constitutional rights and "an unwarranted invasion of privacy."
But the Manhattan district attorney's office says it's fair game to go after messages protester Malcolm Harris sent publicly for weeks before and months after his arrest. The messages might contradict Harris' defense that he thought protesters had police permission to march in the street on the Brooklyn Bridge on Oct. 1, prosecutors said in a court filing Wednesday.
"He has no proprietary or privacy interest in tweets that he broadcast to every person with access to the Internet," Assistant District Attorney Lee Langston wrote.
A judge has yet to rule on the dispute, which is underscoring authorities' growing interest in mining social media during investigations. The DA's office won't say whether it is pursuing tweets from other Occupy protesters who've been arrested.
Harris, 23, managing editor for The New Inquiry online magazine, was among more than 700 people arrested on the bridge after authorities said the protesters blocked traffic. Police said the demonstrators disregarded orders not to leave a pedestrian path. Like others, Harris says many demonstrators didn't hear the police warnings and thought officers were letting them onto the road.
more
http://www.policeone...-privacy-clash/
Manhattan prosecutor wants to subpoena tweets sent by a demonstrator facing a disorderly conduct charge
An Occupy Wall Street protester and prosecutors are tussling over his tweets, a clash that's raising legal issues of privacy in an age of living online.
The contest has sounded alarms among electronic privacy advocates, who see ominous overreaching in the Manhattan prosecutor's efforts to subpoena tweets sent by a demonstrator facing a disorderly conduct charge. The protester's lawyer is trying to block the subpoena, calling it an infringement on constitutional rights and "an unwarranted invasion of privacy."
But the Manhattan district attorney's office says it's fair game to go after messages protester Malcolm Harris sent publicly for weeks before and months after his arrest. The messages might contradict Harris' defense that he thought protesters had police permission to march in the street on the Brooklyn Bridge on Oct. 1, prosecutors said in a court filing Wednesday.
"He has no proprietary or privacy interest in tweets that he broadcast to every person with access to the Internet," Assistant District Attorney Lee Langston wrote.
A judge has yet to rule on the dispute, which is underscoring authorities' growing interest in mining social media during investigations. The DA's office won't say whether it is pursuing tweets from other Occupy protesters who've been arrested.
Harris, 23, managing editor for The New Inquiry online magazine, was among more than 700 people arrested on the bridge after authorities said the protesters blocked traffic. Police said the demonstrators disregarded orders not to leave a pedestrian path. Like others, Harris says many demonstrators didn't hear the police warnings and thought officers were letting them onto the road.
more
http://www.policeone...-privacy-clash/
