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Recently I reported on the highly controversial bill S. 1253, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the fiscal year of 2012 which was introduced back in June.

This bill was replaced by the one introduced on the 15th of November,  Read More >>

A cross-section of 13 news organizations in New York City lodged complaints on Monday about the New York Police Department’s treatment of journalists covering the Occupy Wall

Street movement. Separately, 10 press clubs, unions and other groups that represent journalists called for an investigation and said they had formed a coalition to monitor police behavior [...]

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While nearly all Americans head to family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, the Senate is gearing up for a vote on Monday or Tuesday that goes to the very heart of who we are as Americans. The Senate will be voting on a bill that will direct Read More >>

A retired New York Supreme Court judge has claimed she was manhandled by a policeman after watching him beat a woman at the Zuccotti Park raids.

Karen Smith was working as a legal observer when she saw a distressed woman pushed to the ground and beaten [...]

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The blogosphere has been in an uproar over what appears to be a growing trend of violence toward Occupy Wall Street participants, perhaps most notably with the pepper spraying of 84-year-old Dorli Rainey at Occupy Seattle and the arrest of former Philadelphia police Captain Ray Lewis in New York.

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Retired Philadelphia Police Officer Ray Lewis talks to Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change about his arrest at Occupy Wall Street.

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From Democracy Now:

We host a discussion on policing and the Occupy Wall Street movement with Chuck Wexler, director of the Police Executive Research Forum, which helped organize calls among police chiefs on how to respond to the [...]

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In yet another clash with Riot Police in Oakland, California, another peaceful Iraq War Veteran gets a beating from the Oakland Police.

Video footage has emerged of a police officer beating an Iraq war veteran so hard that he suffered a ruptured spleen in an apparently unprovoked incident at a recent Occupy protest in California.

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Occupy Walls Street: Cops Pepper Spray UC Davis Protesters

YouTube Footage from University of California, Davis Protest Sparks Investigation as Occupy Protests Spread Across the State, The Nation and The World

From ABC World News:

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LRAD (Sound Cannon), Beatings, Protesters putting chains around their necks to prevent eviction, Luke Rudkowski from We Are Change explains exactly what happened as the police moved in to destroy the Occupy Wall Street Camp.

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Liberty Plaza (Zuccotti Park), home of Occupy Wall Street for the past two months and birthplace of the 99% movement that has spread across the country and around the world, was evicted by a large police force in full riot gear. [...]

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The predawn confrontation that Occupy Portland protesters prepared for this weekend unfolded instead in daylight hours Sunday, after throngs of supporters had gone home to sleep and at a time when bleary-eyed campers were caught unaware.

Portland police successfully cleared the two downtown parks where protesters had camped since Oct. 6, but the evictions sparked [...]

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Portland police warned on Friday that anti-Wall Street protesters in the city were fashioning makeshift weapons with wood and nails, in advance of a planned move by authorities to clear their two encampments over the weekend.

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As we’ve reported yesterday, Portland’s Mayor Sam Adams, has given OccupyPortland until midnight tonight to leave their encampment.  After 12:01, who knows what will happen and I would assume (although I really, really hope not), we may see a repeat of what happened at Occupy Oakland about a week or so again.  Like I [...]

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Protesters at a public park in Fresno were harassed and arrested by police for a third consecutive evening Monday as officers told them that local penal code allowed them to ignore First Amendment rights and break [...]

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The video of an Occupy Oakland protester shot by police has been made available, showing perhaps the most outrageous act of overzealous law enforcement action in the weeks since the movement began.

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