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Occupy Congressional District 2 Arrests

Today Oregonians across the state united in Medford, Bend, Hood River, Klamath Falls, and La Grande demanding more transparency and openness from Representative Greg Walden. Organizations including: Citizens for Peace and Justice, Oregon Action, Peace House, Jobs with Justice, Veterans for Peace, Occupy Medford, Occupy Ashland and [...]

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Welcome to Fascist America…

The Senate last night codified into law the power of the U.S. military to indefinitely detain an American citizen with no charge, no trial and no oversight whatsoever with the passage of S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act.

One amendment that [...]

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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 >>

US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis [...]

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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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Egypt’s infamous state security apparatus, notorious for spying on political activists and torturing dissidents, has renamed itself “homeland security,” presumably in homage to its American namesake, which has also been used as a tool of political repression.

As part of the re-branding of dictatorship in Egypt, the same [...]

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How in the world can the United States condemn other nations for how they are handling their protest movements when we treat our own protesters so brutally?  No matter what you may think of Occupy Wall Street and the other protest movements that have sprung up across the United [...]

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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:

Police [...]

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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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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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The US forces, along with the South Vietnamese Army, and Australian allies, were forced to fight a war that they were not allowed to win.

Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, famous for defeating Napoleon’s Grande Armee at Waterloo, once said “I’ve spent my [...]

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The Occupy Wall Street Movement that began on September 17th of this year, has been spreading like wildfire across the globe, though curiously it remains a mystery to some. To give you an idea of the growth of the Wall Street Occupation, this Infograph was created and submitted by economist and language major, Muhammad Saleem and [...]

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Once again, Big Brother is in the news.  This time it’s not the Smart Meters (<- link comes with an example letter that you can send to your power company) (Video: The [...]

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