La raid2on OccupySF. Strike - Occupy Oakland. U.N. Envoy: U.S. Isn't Protecting Occupy Protesters' Rights. 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.
Frank La Rue, who serves as the U.N. "special rapporteur" for the protection of free expression, told HuffPost in an interview that the crackdowns against Occupy protesters appear to be violating their human and constitutional rights. "I believe in city ordinances and I believe in maintaining urban order," he said Thursday. "But on the other hand I also believe that the state -- in this case the federal state -- has an obligation to protect and promote human rights.
" "If I were going to pit a city ordinance against human rights, I would always take human rights," he continued. "One of the principles is proportionality," La Rue said. GLENN BECK GETS MIC CHECKED BY OCCUPY TALLAHASSEE 12-02-11. US war vet gets arrested at Occupy LA. Tent city campers say they aren't leaving - Sacramento City News. Standoff ends between police, Occupy DC protesters. NEW: Structure is dismantled by maintenance crews31 arrests are made, park police sayPolice surround a wood structure erected overnight in McPherson SquarePolice could not be reached for comment on the ongoing situation Are you there?
Send images to Open Story Washington (CNN) -- An hours-long standoff between police and Occupy DC protesters ended Sunday night after officers forcibly removed several people clinging to a wood structure erected earlier in the district's McPherson Square. A total of 31 people were arrested over the course of the day, according to U.S. Park Police spokesman Sgt. The standoff started shortly before 11 a.m. as park police surrounded the structure built overnight as a place where protesters could stay warm in the winter and hold their daily general assembly meetings, according to Wade Simmons, one of the Occupy demonstrators.
Occupy DC protesters sit atop a wooden structure at their encampment in Washington's McPherson Square on Sunday. Occupy World St.: From NYC to Everywhere. Occupy UC Davis protesters adopt resolution calling for break with Democratic Party. LAPD Made Sure The Whole World Ain't WatchingMiseryXchord. During the LAPD raid on OccupyLA on November 30, 2011, press was ordered to leave the site or be subject to arrest and exposure to “less lethal” force. Press remaining to cover the city’s action was penned across the street where this image, captured during livestream broadcast by Spencer Mills/ OakFoSho , is representative of their view of the raid. By Guest Contributer Ruth Fowler As both a journalist who occasionally freelances for the mainstream media, and an Occupier, I find myself in a conflicted position regarding reporting on Occupy LA .
My personal affinity towards the movement means that I am loathe to write about it in the mainstream media with any kind of objectivity. The flipside of this is that rarely is the mainstream media itself impartial or unbiased. Referring again to The Guardian, a recent article by Naomi Wolf , entitled The Shocking Truth About the Crackdown on Occupy, caused a furore across the internet . You can follow Ruth Fowler’s Blog at Occupy Los Angeles. The West Coast Port Shutdown - Port of Seattle. Occupy LA - Arrested occupiers report back to GA. Time magazine reveals Person of the Year 2011 - Today Celebrates 2011.
Time magazine revealed the 2011 choice for its iconic Person of the Year cover live on TODAY Wednesday.
The Protester is this year’s choice, managing editor Rick Stengel told Matt Lauer and Ann Curry. “There was a lot of consensus among our people,” Stengel told the TODAY anchors as he revealed the magazine’s cover. “It felt right.” As it has for the past 84 years, the weekly newsmagazine selected the person (or sometimes group, or thing) that its editors deemed had the single greatest impact during the past year, for better or for worse. Time’s Person of the Year has been a perennial topic of year-end debate ever since aviator Charles Lindbergh was chosen the first Man of the Year back in 1927 (the title was amended to Person of the Year in 1999).
Slideshow: Time Persons of the Year 1999-2013 (on this page) Other candidates Polled online earlier this week, hundreds of TODAY.com readers came up with many other nominees for 2011, including late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Rep.