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This is the live stream video being transmitted from Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan as the NYPD tries to clear out the Occupy Wall Street Movement today.
I find it increasingly apparent that the administrations, the media, the corporations have not begun to understand how radically the Occupy Movement has fundamentally changed the direction of discussion and the way most Americans now view the Corporacracy. Most Americans now identify with the 99% movement. The so called establishment cannot begin to deal with the movement in any way except trying to physically dismantle the physical manifestation of the protests. The biggest error on their part is to use brutal force. The Occupy Movement Demonstrations did not have to be brutally dismantled. The Movement is in a state of evolution.
They made their point and now the Police in their brutal clumsy manner only emphasize the points with their brutality and exposing in a very open and public manner that the masters they serve care nothing about the rule of law.
Last Wednesday night in Berkeley, CA, a peaceful Occupy protest was brutally suppressed by a police attack on the UC campus. Perhaps the most poignant moment of that incident was the report of a Grad Student, Alex Barnard who was beat by police batons and ended up with cracked ribs. He stated that the most disempowering moment for him was when he was being booked and whenever he asked any questions, he was told "You Have No Rights".
The violence was eloquently protested by the faculty of Berkely in this open letter/petition.
This is a video taken on Nov 11, 2011 in Dallas of a protestor being pushed off of a ledge by a Dallas Officer. The protestor, Steven Benevides, was booked for assault and the police claim he assaulted them, The video evidence shows quite the opposite. The police claim that they acted in professional manner.
One good piece of news is that Scott Olsen, the Marine who was brain damaged when he was hit by a tear gas canister in Oakland in October, is out of the hospital. He has a long way to go to recovery, but this very brave man has stated that he will be back on the front lines protesting with his fellow Vets! Bravo, Mon Vieux!
Olsen and the other Vets and Police who have joined the Occupy Movement have very directly demonstrated to Americans that Occupy is not them, they is us. In Atlanta, the Occupy Movement actually saved a Police Officers home from foreclosure.
We are smarter, smarter and better and evolving as the corporacracy becomes more entrenched in protecting what they consider their special interests. Nothing worth fighting for or believing in is easy. Nothing magically happens overnight. Each journey is many small steps. Occupy will not go away by simply smashing it. The dinosaurs howled in terror as the planet changed and they became extinct.
UPDATE! THE DALLAS POLICE OFFICER WHO PUSHED STEVEN BENEVIDES OFF OF THE LEDGE, THEN CLAIMED HE WAS ASSAULTED, WAS SUSPENDED BECAUSE OF THE EVIDENCE IN THE VIDEO ABOVE!
I find it increasingly apparent that the administrations, the media, the corporations have not begun to understand how radically the Occupy Movement has fundamentally changed the direction of discussion and the way most Americans now view the Corporacracy. Most Americans now identify with the 99% movement. The so called establishment cannot begin to deal with the movement in any way except trying to physically dismantle the physical manifestation of the protests. The biggest error on their part is to use brutal force. The Occupy Movement Demonstrations did not have to be brutally dismantled. The Movement is in a state of evolution.
They made their point and now the Police in their brutal clumsy manner only emphasize the points with their brutality and exposing in a very open and public manner that the masters they serve care nothing about the rule of law.
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| confrontation last wednesday in berkeley |
Last Wednesday night in Berkeley, CA, a peaceful Occupy protest was brutally suppressed by a police attack on the UC campus. Perhaps the most poignant moment of that incident was the report of a Grad Student, Alex Barnard who was beat by police batons and ended up with cracked ribs. He stated that the most disempowering moment for him was when he was being booked and whenever he asked any questions, he was told "You Have No Rights".
The violence was eloquently protested by the faculty of Berkely in this open letter/petition.
This is a video taken on Nov 11, 2011 in Dallas of a protestor being pushed off of a ledge by a Dallas Officer. The protestor, Steven Benevides, was booked for assault and the police claim he assaulted them, The video evidence shows quite the opposite. The police claim that they acted in professional manner.
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| scott olsen earlier this week |
Olsen and the other Vets and Police who have joined the Occupy Movement have very directly demonstrated to Americans that Occupy is not them, they is us. In Atlanta, the Occupy Movement actually saved a Police Officers home from foreclosure.
We are smarter, smarter and better and evolving as the corporacracy becomes more entrenched in protecting what they consider their special interests. Nothing worth fighting for or believing in is easy. Nothing magically happens overnight. Each journey is many small steps. Occupy will not go away by simply smashing it. The dinosaurs howled in terror as the planet changed and they became extinct.
UPDATE! THE DALLAS POLICE OFFICER WHO PUSHED STEVEN BENEVIDES OFF OF THE LEDGE, THEN CLAIMED HE WAS ASSAULTED, WAS SUSPENDED BECAUSE OF THE EVIDENCE IN THE VIDEO ABOVE!
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