Fox News calls pepper spray a food product. Fox News Anchor: Pepper Spray is “Essentially a Food Product” - Duly Noted. #Occupy Bat Signal for the 99% Occupy Police. OWS Continues to Dominate the Zeitgeist: Outcry over Abuse of Students at UC Davis Grows, Right-Wing Plan to Smear Protests Exposed. In a few short hours, the video was popping up seemingly every few seconds on Twitter with horrified responses from those who shared it. As a group of students sat on the UC Davis quad Friday evening, arms linked, huddled across a roadway, a cop reached up, flourished a can of pepper spray, and provocatively sprayed it on their faces to horrified shouts from onlookers. Eventually, the students began collapsing, and they were dragged away, arrested. Fast forward to the end of the video, when the remaining students chant "you can go" to the police officers.
If protesters are continually met with brutality that horrifies onlookers and compels them to side with the protesters, well, then Occupy Wall Street isn't going anywhere. Justice Dept: Homeland Security Advised Raids On Occupy Wall Street Camps. President Obama's "position" regarding the NYPD's raid of Zuccotti Park, is that "every municipality has to make its own decision about how to handle" the issues of free speech and the concerns of the community.
But according to Rick Ellis at the Examiner, a Justice Department official says that the recent evictions of Occupy movement across the country including Salt Lake City, Denver, Portland, Oakland, and New York City were "coordinated with help from Homeland Security, the FBI and other federal police agencies. " Ellis reports that his source says though the decision to evict protesters ultimately rested with each individual jurisdiction, the local police departments "had received tactical and planning advice from national agencies" from the feds.
The AP reports that another set of conference calls on October 11 and November 14 were organized by the Police Executive Research Forum and included representatives from 40 different cities. Caught on Camera: 10 Shockingly Violent Police Assaults on Occupy Protesters. November 18, 2011 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Occupations across the country have born the brunt of some violent police tactics, and in a world where everyone has a camera-phone, a lot of their brutish behavior has been caught in photographs and on video. Police work is difficult and dangerous, and the majority of officers on the street behave like pros. But being human, cops are also prone to fear and rage like everyone else. Unlike protesters, cops are also armed, and it's difficult to hold them accountable for their actions when they don't behave professionally. THE BEST VIDEO ON "OCCUPY THE WORLD" Dallas Occupies Donald Rumsfeld Event. Occupy Wall Street - History in the Making. Since the Canadian activist group, Adbusters, called for everyone to Occupy Wall Street on September 17, 2011, millions of people worldwide have joined the movement.
Pushing primarily for greater wealth equality in the US and less corporate influence over the government, the Occupy movement is one that aims to lessen the gap between the 99% and the wealthiest 1% in America. The demonstrations are based in Zuccotti Park in the Wall Street financial district of New York, but since then they have spread to over 900 cities worldwide. However, social media and technology have definitely played a significant role in helping to advance the movement. Youtube, especially has been the group's main mode of communication; as well as Twitter, which has allowed them to feed a steady flow of updates to millions of followers.
One supporter, a Brooklyn software developer, even went so far as to create a special smart phone application to help protesters demonstrating at an Occupy rally. Obama Calls On Authorities To Refrain From Violence Against Peaceful Protestors. The Arab Spring has become the American Fall.
Surely what President Obama believed ten months ago was true for Egypt, is also true for America today? UC Davis Chancellor Katehi walks to car amidst protesters. Occupy UC Davis on USTREAM: Live Stream of Occupy UC Davis, but it schould really be Decolonize UCD. Watch without ads Ustream © Search Log in / Sign up With Facebook (faster)
OccupyNYC. Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi. 18 November 2011 Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B.
Katehi Linda P.B. Katehi, I am a junior faculty member at UC Davis. You are not. I write to you and to my colleagues for three reasons: Police pepper spraying and arresting students at UC Davis. CLGF-msnbc.pdf (application/pdf Object) Interview with creator of Occupy Wall Street "bat-signal" projections during Brooklyn Bridge #N17 march. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi Earlier this evening, tens of thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters marched throughout New York City, many making their way on to the Brooklyn Bridge, carrying LED candles and chanting.
As Occupiers took the bridge in a seemingly endless sea of people, words in light appeared projected on the iconic Verizon Building nearby: "99% / MIC CHECK! / LOOK AROUND / YOU ARE A PART / OF A GLOBAL UPRISING / WE ARE A CRY / FROM THE HEART / OF THE WORLD / WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE / ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE / HAPPY BIRTHDAY / #OCCUPY MOVEMENT / OCCUPY WALL STREET / list of cities, states and countries / OCCUPY EARTH / WE ARE WINNING / IT IS THE BEGINNING OF THE BEGINNING / DO NOT BE AFRAID / LOVE. " A few hours later I spoke with Mark Read, who organized the "bat-signal" project.
XJ: How did this come together? Mark Read: It came up at an action coordination meeting. I said, I think I can do that. I knew I wanted to throw it on the Verizon Building. She wouldn't take my money. Exclusive: Lobbying Firm's Memo Spells Out Plan to Undermine Occupy Wall Street (VIDEO) The Other 99, Ustream.TV: -Twitter- @TheOther99 @Iwilloccupy This channel is being maintained by The Other 99. We continue to be a primary source from. 400 handcuffs: OWS 2-month birthday gift. NYPD blast LRAD sound cannons at OWS. Occupy Wall Street Sept 17.