August 2, 2012

OWS Week: Occupy Storefront Picket Support, ConEd

Yes, IRANIAN television. Who in my experience in LA, tell the truth. Other experiences may differ.

August 2, 2012

NYT Photos Don't Do Justice to Police Presence at Anaheim Protests

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vivien-lesnik-weisman/post_3677_b_1725733.html?icid=hp_search_art

A picture is worth a thousand words is often used as short hand for the power of an image to convey information and elicit emotion. But a snap shot in time can distort reality and mislead, as is the case of the NYT's photo of police in formation in Anaheim with the caption" No Passage to Disneyland."

The real story in Anaheim this weekend was that the protests that were sparked by the Anaheim police killing of two Latino men, Manuel Diaz and Joel Acevedo, was the massive police presence that met a mere 100 to 150 peaceful protestors.

When I arrived at the Anaheim police station I expected to see a police force prepared for a demonstration and possible unruly behavior as tensions had been high all week. Since the shootings, a canine had been unleashed on an unarmed crowd of mostly women and children, and many rounds of non-lethal "rubber bullets" had been fired at the citizens of Anaheim.

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Plenty of photos at the link.

August 1, 2012

There is a petition calling for the state attorney general to investigate the murders in Anaheim

by police.

"They Shot At Little Kids Too!"

In the last year, there have been eight officer-involved shootings in Anaheim. The disturbing images in this video took place just hours after the police killing of Manuel Diaz, as residents gathered to demand answers about his death. The Anaheim Police then fired rubber bullets and unleashed a dog on a crowd that included children.

If it wasn't clear already, it is clear now: the Anaheim Police Department is out of control. This police brutality needs to stop.

Please do something about this, now. Demand that Attorney General Kamala Harris launch an investigation into both the incident on video and the recent increase in officer-involved shootings in Anaheim.

http://act.presente.org/sign/anaheimbrutality/

August 1, 2012

White police profile, draw guns on two black youth in Oakland

http://bambuser.com/v/2870410

Livestreamer bellaeiko was there, bless her soul...

Screenshot by pfailblog:

http://twitpic.com/ae2vmy/full

August 1, 2012

Minneapolis Occupy protesters in court, defend the right to protest

http://www.fightbacknews.org/2012/7/31/minneapolis-occupy-protesters-court-defend-right-protest

By Staff | July 31, 2012

Minneapolis, MN - The Minnesota Occupy movement won a victory in their battle against the Minneapolis city attorney’s office, July 30. Four protesters got their charges reduced to only petty misdemeanors for an October 2011 civil disobedience action at U.S. Bank. This came about despite the Minneapolis city attorney office’s efforts to escalate the charges to crack down on the use of civil disobedience in the fight against home foreclosures.

On October 20, 2011, hundreds of people participated in a demonstration in front of U.S. Bank in downtown Minneapolis to draw attention to the fact that over 25,000 Minnesotans lost their homes to foreclosure in 2010 alone. Seven people were arrested in the intersection in front of the bank and charged with “interfering with pedestrian and vehicular traffic.” Four of them were scheduled to go to trial for that charge on July 30, but on July 20 the prosecutor added the charges of unlawful assembly, public nuisance and not complying with a ‘peace officer.’

In the July 30 hearing, Judge Daniel Moreno sided with the defense’s motion against adding the new charges. He encouraged the prosecution to charge the protesters with petty misdemeanors instead of misdemeanors and, when they would not, he encouraged the accused to do a straight plea to him directly so that he could give them a lesser punishment. All four protesters pled out to petty misdemeanors, despite the prosecution’s courtroom antics to prosecute them to their fullest extent in an effort to crush the local anti-foreclosure movement.

August 1, 2012

Hey Kids! Check out my military police!

Fresh out of Los Angeles, perfect for shirts, protest signs, Facebook avatars, coffee mugs, you name it, your imagination is the limit! If you can't download it directly, right-click to the source and click the image until you see "see all sizes" and download from that page.



But don't get arrested like the guy who designed it!



ohai military police of Anaheim with your M32 grenade launcher!



Hey, don't shoot shoot shoot that thing at me! Oh wait, you shot at the press...



Video:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101745213

August 1, 2012

A Wild WTF! Appears! Disney secretly employed Blackwater

Operation Anaheim ?@OpAnaheim

A Wild WTF! Appears! #Disney secretly employed #Blackwater

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/16/disney-monsanto-discovered-blackwaters-hidden-clients/

Walt Disney, Monsanto discovered among Blackwater’s hidden clients

By John Byrne
Thursday, September 16, 2010 8:31 EDT

Monsanto doesn’t stand alone. Through a network of 30 subsidiaries and shell corporations, Blackwater-linked entities provided “intelligence, training and security services” to a cache of major multinational firms, including: Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Deutsche Bank and Barclays, according to documents Scahill obtained.

Blackwater’s owner and founder, Erik Prince — who has himself been linked to the CIA — helped train companies through two other firms he controlled: Total Intelligence Solutions and the Terrorism Research Center.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, no one responded to requests for comment.

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People wonder why Disney hiring unaccountable, murderous mercenaries is a big deal? That sentence should answer the question.

Backstory of what happened this week:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021042880