Three Years, 30,000 Incidents of Human Rights Abuse: Are Border Patrol Agents the Real Criminals? | Civil Liberties. September 29, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Those are the findings of a new report released by the Arizona humanitarian aid organization No More Deaths. The report, “A Culture of Cruelty,” documents 30,000 incidents of human rights abuses against undocumented immigrants in short-term detention between fall 2008 and spring 2011. Nearly 13,000 people were interviewed in the Mexican border towns of Naco, Nogales and Agua Prieta.
Allegations range from Border Patrol agents denying food and water to adults and children in detention for several days, to purposely separating families during deportation or forcing people to sign removal orders. They also include concerns that detainees were not provided the right to due process. “We didn’t go out looking for these stories. “Many of the grassroots services we provide wouldn’t need to exist if the Border Patrol was doing the right thing,” she said. BREAKING EXCLUSIVE VIDEO! Arrested Bk Bridge Protestors, Inc. 13 Yr Old, On City Buses! #OWS. United Steelworkers union, North America’s largest, joins Occupy Wall Street. PhotOH! Police make arrests of Occupy Wall Street protesters on Brooklyn Bridge.
I grabbed these off the live feed here. Police have a paddy wagon, and are making arrest after arrest: This officer grabbed, tried to swat the camera out of the man's hands. Nufmneuj Shared by TheOther99. Occupy Wall Street Pictures. Live arrest at brooklyn bridge #occupywallstreet by We are Change. Live Blog for #OccupyWallStreet: Day Fifteen, Huge Demonstration Held at NYPD Headquarters. Note: This intro has to do with events that happened yesterday, not the action that just unfolded on the Brooklyn Bridge. Is the English rock band Radiohead responsible for the three to five thousand demonstrators that marched on NYPD headquarters yesterday evening? A rumor spread that the band was going to be playing for the activists in Liberty Park. Then, the band’s spokesperson denied they were playing. It was reported the band had intended to play but wanted to only play for the activists. Hundreds if not more than a thousand people showed up to the park for the band.
The band never showed up but hundreds were now there for a march. What is probably more responsible for the growth in numbers is the increased support from big unions, which the action is achieving. Thousands poured into St. When the crowd had gathered in front of the headquarters, they all sat down. The crowd left the plaza peacefully and went back to the park. FDL’s premier live blog continues. 7:50 PM NickS reports: Declaration of the Occupation of New York City. This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011, with slight adjustments in wording on October 1, 2011: As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.
As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
To the people of the world, [OccupyWallStreet] NYPD sets trap at Brooklyn Bridge, while taking JP Morgan-Chase-Bribe! [1-Oct-11] Dozens arrested in anti-Wall Street protest - Americas. New York City police say they have arrested about 700 protesters after they swarmed onto Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic for several hours. Police said some of the demonstrators, who were taking part in anti-Wall Street protests targeting the financial industry, spilled onto the roadway Saturday night after being told to stay on the pedestrian pathway.
"Over 700 summonses and desk appearance tickets have been issued in connection with a demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge late this afternoon after multiple warnings by police were given to protesters to stay on the pedestrian walkway, and that if they took the roadway they would be arrested," said a police spokesman. "Some complied and took the walkway without being arrested. Others proceeded on the Brooklyn-bound vehicular roadway and were. " Officers cut the marchers off, plunged into the crowd, and began making arrests as marchers chanted, "Shame! Shame! " Movement spreads Friday protest. Cops arresting a CHILD ! NYPD Special Operations Division and Traffic Live Scanner Audio Feed. NYPD Mass Arrests of Occupy Wall Street Protesters: Firsthand Account from AlterNet Staffer Trapped on Bridge. At the time of this posting, hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters, members of the press and bystanders are being penned by the police on the Brooklyn Bridge, waiting to get arrested one by one.
(The livestream is in the previous post.) According to eyewitnesses, the NYPD closed the bridge to traffic as the surge of protesters arrived, but then used the crowd's presence on the roadway to corral them in on both sides, so that no exit is possible. AlterNet's Kristen Gwynne is among the crowd, and here is what she just told us by phone: "They're arresting us one by one. I just asked a cop and they said they're going to arrest all of us. There are hundreds of people who dont have room to sit down. "I'm probably going to be arrested in the next hour or two.
" As for the morale of the crowd, she reports, "It was amazing coming over when we took the bridge. "Some people are upset, but mostly people are hanging tight, dealing with it, waiting to get arrested. " As for morale? Occupy Wall Street Protesters: We Are Americans. <br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy They are hundreds strong, but the protesters calling themselves Occupy Wall Street claim to speak for millions. "It's about democracy; it's about everyone here has a chance to speak and be heard," said Justin Brown of Brooklyn, who joined the protest a week ago.
Their causes include everything from global warming to gas prices to corporate greed, and the Occupy Wall Street website says organizers took their inspiration in part from the so-called Arab Spring demonstrations that have tried to bring democracy across the Arab world. But while their message might be a tad muddled, all are united by their anger over what they say is a broken system, a system that serves the wealthy and powerful at the expense of the rest.
Protester Brendan Burke insists he and the others are fighting for more than 99 percent of the American population. "We're Americans," said Justin Brown. Hundreds of nonviolent protesters getting arrested on Brookly. Occupy Wall Street and the History of Democratic Finance Protest. Given some of my key subjects, I can’t help but be interested in the “occupy” movement that, at the moment, has a few hundred protesters [UPDATE: Now a lot more; I was there on Tuesday] more or less living in Zuccotti Park near the New York Stock Exchange in lower Manhattan, and is apparently starting to engage in similar protests in other cities. You can’t find out much about this action via “mainstream media,” and even much of the left media, such as it is, has been critical in some cases, and outright dismissive in others, regarding the movement’s evident formlessness and absence of specific goals. That absence is pretty much undeniable.
Still, in Salon, Glenn Greenwald has shrewdly criticized liberal-Democrat scorn for Occupy Wall Street. On the other hand, Mother Jonescriticizes the movement on bases other than those that Greenwald attacks. . . . They had high hopes for American independence. And they knew where they’d succeeded and failed. #occupywallstreet helicopters all over, this street is closed. Bc.com Video Player. Is Twitter blocking Occupy Wall Street from trending in the USA? Am. Occupy Wall Street Continues With Showdown on Brooklyn Bridge [LIVE VIDEO] - The ITT List. An attempt by Occupy Wall Street activists to march across the Brooklyn Bridge this afternoon has reportedly resulted in protesters being coralled or "kettled" on the Bridge, and mass arrests by the NYPD.
[Update: as of 6:33pm ET, the Occupy Wall St livestream below reported that 350 people were still stuck on the Bridge and 75 had been arrested.] The Global Revolution livestream has been bringing live video from the Brooklyn Bridge, including the arrest of a young female activist, an action greeted by a cry of "How old is she offiicer?.. Yeah, arrest a child, see how that goes! " from one crowd member. At various points the livestream from the bridge has gone down, replaced by text that reads "members of the media team may have been arrested.
" In These Times' good friend Allison Kilkenny recently wrote on Twitter, "If the NYPD was looking to strengthen this movement, they just did it... "They're arresting us one by one. Quelle Surprise! "J.P. Morgan Chase "donates" $4.6 Million to NYPD" #OccupyWallStreet. Quelle Surprise! “J.P. Morgan Chase “donates” $4.6 Million to NYPD” #OccupyWallStreet Posted on01 October 2011. Tags: 4.6 Million, donation, jamie dimon, jpmorgan chase, NYPD UPDATE: JPMC isn’t alone “Donating” to NYPD, Bank of America, Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs… others did also! H/T Eric Allen Bell JPMorgan Chase recently donated an unprecedented $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation. New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly sent CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon a note expressing “profound gratitude” for the company’s donation. “These officers put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe,” Dimon said.
Hackers leak data of JPMorgan Chase CEO James Dimon&JPMorgan Chase & Co. has invested in a fund that has bought about $400 million in Twitter Inc. © 2010-13 FORECLOSURE FRAUD | by DinSFLA. Share Comments comments Related posts: Why The Tea Party Should Join Occupy Wall Street. The catalyst that brought the original tea party together was the Wall Street bailout in 2008. This was before the tea party lost it’s focus and was hi-jacked by the right wing and began protesting teachers, firemen, and police officers in states like Wisconsin and even Massachusetts. The purpose of Occupy Wall Street right now is to focus on the problem that started the bailouts. The unwavering influences of money in politics and our government.
Millions of dollars are spent by Wall Street to lobby and donate to political parties and politicians in order to influence their votes. The voice of the average person can not and will not be heard over rushing waters of campaign donations. Wall Street writes our laws and regulations. This is also where the Tea Party and the Occupiers of Wall Street have common ground.
The occupiers of Wall Street want to eliminate the monied interests in our government. Their other common ground is the outsourcing of jobs. Image: AIDSoversixty. First official statement from Occupy Wall Street. Hundreds Arrested, Including AlterNet Reporter, as Occupy Wall Street Keeps Growing. Screenshot: #OccupyWallStreet Brooklyn Bridge Mass Arrest! Tr.