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The cop group coordinating the Occupy crackdowns

This was in the Bay Gaurdian -Rick

http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2011/11/18/cop-group-coordinating-occupy-cr...
11.18.11 - 11:23 am | Shawn Gaynor |

A national group with ties to Homeland Security helped paln the Occupy Oakland busts

As cities across America evict encampments of the Occupy Wall Street movement, similarities of timing, talking points and tactics among major metropolitan mayors and police chiefs have led critics to wonder: Is some sort of national coordination going on?

The White House says there’s no federal oversight. Speaking November 15 aboard Air Force One, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said “The president’s position is that obviously every municipality has to make its own decisions about how to handle these issues.”

Anonymous Exposing Law Enforcement after Police Brutalize Occupy Movement

This is from Censored News Check it out -Rick

Friday, November 18, 2011
Anonymous exposes e-mails of DOJ agent
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

(Nov. 18, 2011) Anonymous said today it has hacked the e-mails of a Department of Justice special investigator, which contained messages from ex-wives and girlfriends, and "man seeking woman" responses on Craig's List.

Journalist attacked by police while documenting Occupy Wall Street protests

Journalist Luke Rudkowski was attacked by police Wednesday night while trying to document the Occupy Wall Street arrests in NY. NYPD used pepper spray, batons, and brute force to move protesters away from the entrance to Wall Street after many tried to push through police barricades. Rumors immediately circulated that police provocateurs dressed as protesters were to blame for the incident.

Direct link: Luke Rudkowski Attacked by Police, Baton to the Gut at Occupy Wall Street Arrests

London's Burning!!! Anarchy in the UK!

The 2011 London Riots

The riots continue in London and surrounding areas for a third night.

"Fires, riots and looting spread across London." -- BBC

Large Sony distribution center burning out of control
Large Sony distribution center burning out of control

Source: London indymedia "Tumbles"

Police Shut Down Iron Rail Infoshop in New Orleans

On Wednesday the Iron Rail Infoshop was shut down by police under the pretext of permit violations and an inability to produce a business license. The Iron Rail has existed in this location for the past 8 years. The shut down included the entire building known as "The Ark" which also houses the Plan B Community Bike Project and Hasbin Wilby's recycled art supplies, as well as numerous artist's studios which sometimes are used as dwellings. the Iron Rail hosts the Crescent City Anti-Authoritarians meetings and is the hub of anarchist organizing and other alternative projects in the city.

Protest FBI Repression Tuesday Oct 5th

Start: Oct 5 2010 4:00 pm
End: Oct 5 2010 6:00 pm

Protest FBI raids on social justice activists under the guise of "material support" for "terrorism." (which in this case means solidarity work with Palestine, Columbia, and Indigenous America).

Olympia's FBI offices are at:

711 Capitol Way (Evergreen Plaza Building)

Protest there on: Tuesday, October 5th at 4PM until 6PM

http://www.olyblog.net/protest-fbi-repression

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=164587330222070

http://stopfbi.net/

[David Rovics] Report from Cop-enhagen

The signs up all over the airport and various places elsewhere in town
are calling it Hopenhagen, but everybody I know is calling it
Cop-enhagen, which seems far more appropriate. The international media
has been giving this lots of coverage, and rightly so. Of course much
of the media is unable to walk and chew gum at the same time, so other
things, such as the reason the protests are happening in the first
place, can get lost.

Inside the Bella Center lots of stuff is going on. Namely the US,
Australia and others leading the way in making sure nothing meaningful
takes place there, while many other delegates and activists within try
to make the best of it, or at least make the effort to thoroughly

Public Records Request finds Olympia Activists Caught in a National Surveillance Program

From Olympia Works in Progress (print)
By Brendan Maslauskas Dunn

An SDSer (Students for a Democratic Society) in Portland is walking
down the street on May Day. She walks by a police officer sitting
outside a café flipping through photographs of different people the
police plan on identifying at a May Day rally. A picture of her appears
and the cop stares at it for a while.

Spies Amongst Us

John Towery is a professional informant who works for the US Army.
He works on Fort Lewis, WA in ‘force protection’. Between September
2007 and July 2009, using the alias “John Jacob
(agent_orange@riseup.net)”, he illegally infiltrated various anti-war
and “anarchist” groups around the Olympia and Tacoma (WA) area
including Port Militarization Resistance, Students for a Democratic
Society. He also worked closely with the Smash ICE Campaign and Iraq
Veterans Against the War. Much of his time was spent befriending
anarchists or those whose views had anarchist characteristics. People
who knew John Jacob described him as kind, generous, and friendly. He
came to meetings and quickly became a trusted individual, leading to

At least 30 reported killed in Amazon land protest

By CARLA SALAZAR, Associated Press Jun 5, 2009

LIMA, Peru – Indians protesting oil and gas exploration on their lands battled police in Peru's remote Amazon Friday, with authorities and Indian leaders reporting at least 30 deaths.

Nigeria: One Dead, Several Injured As Ajaokuta Steel Workers Protest

All Africa.com June 3, 2009

Ajaokuta (kogi) — ONE person was feared dead and several others
wounded, yesterday, in Ajaokuta when aggrieved workers of the
multi-billion Naira Ajaokuta Steel Company (ASCL) took to the major
road in a violent protest over non-payment of their outstanding wages.

The ASL workers protest is coming barely a month after members of
the House of Representatives Commitee on Steel undertook a working tour
to the complex.

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