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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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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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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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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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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.

LRAD on scene, pic1pic2.

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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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At what point does a protest movement become an excuse for camping? At what point is utopianism discredited by the seedy, dangerous, derelict fun fair it creates? At what point do the excesses of a movement become so prevalent that they can reasonably be called its essence? At what point do Democratic politicians need to [...]

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NYPD Won’t Tolerate Illegal Behavior

It won’t happen here.

Mayor Bloomberg vowed Friday that the Occupy Wall Street movement would not descend into violence like the protests in [...]

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Meet the Anthropologist, Activist, and Anarchist Who Helped Transform a Hapless Rally into a Global Protest Movement, David Graeber

David Graeber likes to say that he had three goals for the year: promote his book, learn to drive, and launch a worldwide revolution. The first is going well, [...]

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Citizens for Peace & Justice Presents:

Calling All Rebels

CPJ Film Night at 7 p.m. – Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

Film Night by Citizens for Peace & Justice will present a free showing of Calling All Rebels, a filmed speech, which was presented by Chris Hedges [...]

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Zuccotti Park, located in downtown New York City, is usually where bankers and traders from Wall Street would enjoy a quiet lunch.  Recently, though, it [...]

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While more U.S. cities are resorting to force to break up the Wall Street protests, many others – Philadelphia, New York, Minneapolis and Portland, Ore., among them – are content to let [...]

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Occupy movement returns to streets demanding answers after teargas canister hit Iraq serviceman Scott Olsen in the head.

Related Story : Oakland Police Under Scrutiny – Live Updates

Protesters have [...]

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