Occupation
OccupySEATTLE Updates - Police give 24 hour notice to OccupySeattle at Westlake Park - Boston VFP members arrested
Submitted by victimized on 10 October 2011 - 10:56pmLIVE VIDEO: OccupySeattle Live Stream:
- http://www.livestream.com/owsoccupyseattle
- http://www.ustream.tv/channel/igxliam
- http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupyseattle2
- http://www.ustream.tv/channel/a-day-in-the-life-of-nickels-hawkeye
VIDEO: Police in SEATTLE threatening people with arrest if they do not leave Westlake park
VIDEO: BOSTON Police arresting VFP members for exercising their right to peacefully assemble
There's more info below! - PSST! Don't keep this a secret!
Journalist attacked by police while documenting Occupy Wall Street protests
Submitted by victimized on 6 October 2011 - 8:57pmJournalist 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
Lakota: US Justice Department Promise, Visit Pine Ridge and Listen
Submitted by rick on 17 September 2010 - 12:56amThursday, September 16, 2010
This is from Brenda Norrell, Censored News:
US is building two naval bases in Panama.
Submitted by wildleaf on 14 October 2009 - 10:14amThe US is building two naval bases in Panama. I missed this development until yesterday as did many news sources I regularly check. Here is a nice opinion piece on it.
http://www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_15/issue_16/opinion_03.html
Then there is this article:
http://www.articlesbase.com/online-business-articles/us-navy-bases-in-pa...
Which really gets into the ludicrous nature of the whole thing. These bases should be as resoundedly condemned as the ones in Colombia.
Tamil protesters leave Toronto highway
Submitted by pirate on 10 May 2009 - 10:52pm
May. 11 2009 ctvtoronto.ca
Thousands of Tamil protesters have left Toronto's Gardiner Expressway, after surging onto the highway to call attention to the escalating civilian death toll in Sri Lanka.
Around midnight, protesters began making their way down an on-ramp as police monitored the situation. Some told ctvtoronto.ca they planned to take their demonstration to Queen's Park.
Lewisham Bridge school occupation
Submitted by pirate on 25 April 2009 - 12:57pmLibcom.org April 24, 2009
Parents have occupied the roof of a South London primary school in a bid to keep it open.
On the morning of April 23rd, parents of children at Lewisham Bridge Primary School, Elmira Street, Lewisham, occupied the roof of the school buildings. They are protesting against Lewisham Council's decision to demolish the school and replace it with a new school run by a private company for ages 3 through to 16. The school is currently closed and the pupils have to arrive an hour early to be bussed to a vacant site in New Cross. This means a very long day for the children.
Belfast: Hundreds rally in support of Visteon workers occupation
Submitted by pirate on 11 April 2009 - 2:03pm
Libcom.org April 10, 2009
A report and audio recordings of the rally of hundreds of supporters of the Ford Visteon workers occupying their plant against their redundancies with no pay.
Over 200 people marched today from Andersonstown to the factory in Finachy for a rally, which was addressed by Unite Shop Stewards Charlie Maxwell and John Maxwell, including representatives from the SDLP and Sinn Fein.
Sacked workers end sit-in protest
Submitted by pirate on 10 April 2009 - 12:52pm
Workers have vowed to continue fighting for a settlemen
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BBC April 9, 2009
A sit-in protest by 230 London workers made redundant by US car parts firm Visteon has ended.
Canadian auto-workers occupy factory
Submitted by pirate on 19 March 2009 - 10:01pmLibcom.org March 19, 2009
A group of disgruntled workers at a recently closed auto parts supply company in Windsor, Ontario have taken over the plant.
In the latest twist in a saga that has been brewing since two auto
plants in the area shut down early last week, about a dozen workers
occupied the Aradco plant Tuesday night. They have welded the doors
shut from the inside and say they will not leave until they get what
they are owed.
Victory for cleaners union in Greece during new ISAP occupation
Submitted by pirate on 26 February 2009 - 1:39am
Libcom.org Feb. 25, 2009
Cleaners union occupies ISAP (metro) HQs and secures series of concessions.
Tense week in Greece: cultural centre occupied, protest erupts in clashes, doctors stage 48-hour strike
Submitted by pirate on 16 February 2009 - 12:31am
Feb 14 2009 Libcom.org
Tension rises again in Greece with protest marches and occupations of public buildings against repression, as well as 48 doctor strike which sees new methods of struggle like occupying hospital cashiers.
National Opera House occupied in Athens and turned into counterinformation and resistance base
Submitted by pirate on 7 February 2009 - 2:34pm
Feb. 6, 2009 Libcom.org
Last week the National Opera House (Ethniki Lyriki Skini) was occupied by dancers renaming the historic Athens building "Insurgent People's . Opera". Since the Opera has been functioning as a free space for revolutionary workshops and forums in solidarity to K. Kouneva and the arrested insurgents of December, as well as against the police state and the culture of the Spectacle.
Greek workers occupy union offices
Submitted by pirate on 18 December 2008 - 12:47pm
dec. 17, 2008 Infoshop.news
A banner handing from the facade of the building reads:
From labor "accidents"
to the murders in cold blood
State - Capital kill
No persecution:
Immediate release
of the arrested
GENERAL STRIKE
Workers' self-organization
will become the bosses' grave
The historic central offices of the General Confederation of Greek Workers in Athens have been occupied by militant workers
New York, NY: Students Occupied New School University
Submitted by pirate on 18 December 2008 - 12:25pm
Forwarded message from CUNY Students
At 8pm, December 18th, over 75 students reclaimed the cafeteria at the New School University as an autonomous student center. Students from several Universities commandeered this space. Students of City College, Borough of Manhattan Community College, Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center are here participating in this struggle. This is every student's occupation.
If this can happen at the New School, through the organized activity of 75 dedicated students, it can happen at CUNY. And we certainly have reason to be upset: On the first day of the Fall 2008 semester, the
