Demonstraties VS #3: Wanneer valt 'the wall'?

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Doctors: Scott Olsen suffered brain damage and is unable to speak

The Iraq veteran seriously wounded Tuesday night at “Occupy Oakland” sustained minor brain damage and has been rendered unable to speak, doctors said Friday, adding that he will likely be able to make a full recovery in time.

Scott Olsen, 24, was said to be otherwise lucid and able to communicate with his family by writing notes, but his ability to spell is also damaged, according to sources who spoke with The Guardian. He is, however, able to understand what’s being communicated to him.

Keith Shannon, Olsen’s roommate who served with him in Iraq, explained that “He cannot talk right now, and that is because the fracture is right on the speech center of his brain,” the paper added. “However, they are expecting he will get that back.”

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Uit een deze week verschenen opiniepeiling van de New York Times en CBS News, blijkt dat inmiddels 43 procent van de Amerikanen de ideeën van Occupy Wall Street steunt.

De cijfers wijzen op een snelgroeiende steun onder het volk voor Occupy Wall Street vergeleken met twee weken geleden, het moment waarop de grote media verslag begonnen te doen van de protesten. In een opiniepeiling die half oktober werd gehouden door onderzoeksbureau Gallup, bleek dat slechts 22 procent van de bevolking de doelen van de demonstranten "goedkeurde." Vijftien procent keurde die af en 63 procent zei er te weinig vanaf te weten om een mening te hebben.

"In slechts een maand tijd hebben de demonstranten het nationale debat weten om te buigen van een focus op het begrotingstekort naar de onderwerpen waar mensen werkelijk mee te maken hebben: gebrek aan fatsoenlijk werk, groeiende ongelijkheid, schulden en de verderfelijke invloed van geld in de politiek die ons tot die punt gebracht heeft", schreef Joshua Holland, redacteur van de progressieve website Alternet, in een reactie op de uitslag van de opiniepeilingen.

Van de ondervraagden gaf twee derde aan dat de welvaart in het land eerlijker verdeeld moet worden. Zesentwintig procent had geen problemen met de huidige verdeling.

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Op zaterdag 29 oktober 2011 00:04 schreef deelnemer het volgende:

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A message from Anonymous to the 99% WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!

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Blockade Port of Oakland During Nov 2 General Strike
resolution passed unanimously by the Occupy Oakland strike assembly on Friday October 29

On Wednesday, November 2nd as part of the Oakland General Strike, we will march on the Port of Oakland and shut it down. We will converge at 5pm at 14th and Broadway and march to the port to shut it down before the 7pm night shift.

We are doing this in order to blockade the flow of capital on the day of the General Strike, as well as to show our commitment to solidarity with Longshore workers in their struggle against EGT in Longview, Washington. EGT is an international grain exporter which is attempting to rupture longshore jurisdiction. The driving force behind EGT is Bunge LTD, a leading agribusiness and food company which reported 2.4 billion dollars in profit in 2010; this company has strong ties to Wall Street. This is but one example of Wall Street’s corporate attack on workers.

The Oakland General Strike will demonstrate the wide reaching implications of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The entire world is fed up with the huge disparity of wealth caused by the present system. Now is the time that the people are doing something about it.The Oakland General Strike is a warning shot to the 1% – their wealth only exists because the 99% creates it for them.

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Marine Says Oakland Used Crowd Control Methods That Are Prohibited In War Zones

Read more: http://www.businessinside(...)011-10#ixzz1cADhsPIs

As the events that led to Oakland protester Scott Olsen's head injury continue to unfold and investigations begin, we thought it important to offer some perspective.

This comment is from a former Marine with special operations in crowd control.

He points out that shooting canisters such as those that likely hit Scott Olsen is prohibited under rules of engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan. Regardless of any political position on the Occupy protests, these are some Interesting insights:

Read more: http://www.businessinside(...)011-10#ixzz1cADepAl2

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Occupy Oakland: mayor sorry for clashes that injured Scott Olsen

Jean Quan says she is deeply saddened by violence between police and demonstrators in which former marine was badly hurt

The mayor of Oakland, Jean Quan, has apologised for the clashes between police and demonstrators that left Scott Olsen badly injured.

Quan, who has drawn withering criticism for her handling of the Occupy protests against economic inequality, said she had met Scott Olsen and his parents and was concerned about his recovery.

Olsen, a 24-year-old ex-marine who served in Iraq, was struck in the head during Occupy Oakland protests on Tuesday night and his plight has galvanised the worldwide Occupy movement.

A spokesman for Oakland's Highland General hospital said Olsen remained in "fair" condition on Friday, upgraded from "critical" one day earlier, and had been visited by his parents.

"I am deeply saddened about the outcome on Tuesday," Quan said in a video statement posted online in which the shouts of protesters rallying outside City Hall could be heard in the background.

"It was not what anyone hoped for. Ultimately, it was my responsibility, and I apologise for what happened," she said. "We can change America, but we must unite and not divide our city. I hope we can work together."

Oakland has become one of the focal points of the Occupy movement, which began in Wall Street last month to protest against economic disparities, high unemployment and government bailouts of major banks.

Makeshift camps sprouting up in cities across the country have forced local officials to balance the facilitation of peaceful assembly while addressing concerns about trespassing, noise, sanitation and safety.

On Thursday, Quan attended a rally and speakers' forum organised by protesters at Frank Ogawa Plaza, a public square near the mayor's office that has been the fulcrum of demonstrations. She was greeted with a hail of angry boos and catcalls and hastily retreated with her staff back to City Hall, followed by protesters shouting, "Get out, go home!" and "Resign!"

In Friday's statement Quan pledged to work with the Occupy Oakland activists and asked for "direct communications" between city staff and Occupy representatives.

Quan asked protesters to refrain from sleeping overnight in the makeshift plaza campsite, which was forcibly dismantled by police on Tuesday. Protesters were marching to retake it when Olsen was critically injured in the confrontation with police.

Protest organisers said the ex-Marine was struck in the head with a teargas canister fired by police. City and police officials have not said how they believe Olsen was hurt but police have opened an investigation.

Protesters reclaimed the plaza on Wednesday night when police kept their distance.

On Friday, hundreds of protesters returned to the square for a rally attended by filmmaker and liberal activist Michael Moore, who was loudly cheered as he addressed the crowd.

"We've seen the militarisation of our local police departments because Congress has spent billions to buy them armaments … even spying systems to prepare them for what they believe is the inevitable," Moore said. "Sooner or later the people aren't going to take it anymore."

Organisers have called for a general strike in Oakland one day next week over what they called the "brutal and vicious" treatment of protesters.

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Op vrijdag 28 oktober 2011 21:55 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

Meet the 0.01 Percent: War Profiteers

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Officers Jeer at Arraignment of 16 Colleagues in Ticket-Fixing Investigation

A three-year investigation into the police’s habit of fixing traffic and parking tickets in the Bronx ended in the unsealing of indictments on Friday and a stunning display of vitriol by hundreds of off-duty officers, who converged on the courthouse to applaud their accused colleagues and denounce their prosecution.

As 16 police officers were arraigned at State Supreme Court in the Bronx, incensed colleagues organized by their union cursed and taunted prosecutors and investigators, chanting “Down with the D.A.” and “Ray Kelly, hypocrite.”

As the defendants emerged from their morning court appearance, a swarm of officers formed a cordon in the hallway and clapped as they picked their way to the elevators. Members of the news media were prevented by court officers from walking down the hallway where more than 100 off-duty police officers had gathered outside the courtroom.

The assembled police officers blocked cameras from filming their colleagues, in one instance grabbing lenses and shoving television camera operators backward.

The unsealed indictments contained more than 1,600 criminal counts, the bulk of them misdemeanors having to do with making tickets disappear as favors for friends, relatives and others with clout. But they also outlined more serious crimes, related both to ticket-fixing and drugs, grand larceny and unrelated corruption. Four of the officers were charged with helping a man get away with assault.

Jose R. Ramos, an officer in the 40th Precinct whose suspicious behavior spawned the protracted investigation, was accused of two dozen crimes, including attempted robbery, attempted grand larceny, transporting what he thought was heroin for drug dealers and revealing the identity of a confidential informant.

The case, troubling to many New Yorkers because of its implication that the police officers believed they deserved special treatment, is expected to have long tentacles. Scores of other officers accused of fixing tickets could face departmental charges. Some officers have already retired. Moreover, the indictments may jeopardize thousands of cases in which implicated officers are important witnesses and may be seen as untrustworthy by Bronx juries.

The contentious scene in the Bronx concluded a week of deep embarrassment for the New York Police Department and Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, who at a news conference acknowledged the difficulty of having “to announce for the second time this week that police officers have been arrested for misconduct.”

Federal agents earlier in the week arrested eight current and former officers on accusations that they had brought illegal firearms, slot machines and black-market cigarettes into New York City. Recently, other officers have been charged in federal court with making false arrests, and there was testimony in a trial in Brooklyn that narcotics detectives planted drugs on innocent civilians.

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The outpouring of angry officers at the courthouse had faint echoes of a 1992 march by off-duty officers on City Hall to protest Mayor David N. Dinkins’s call for more independent review of the police. And it raises unsettling questions about the current mind-set of the police force.

“It is hard to see an upside in the way the anger was expressed, especially in Bronx County, where you already have a hard row to hoe in terms of building rapport with the community,” said Eugene J. O’Donnell, a professor of police studies at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “The Police Department is a very angry work force, and that is something that should concern people, because it translates into hostile interactions with people.”

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On Friday morning, on the street outside the courthouse, some 350 officers massed behind barricades and brandished signs expressing sentiments like “It’s a Courtesy Not a Crime.”

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Op zaterdag 29 oktober 2011 12:22 schreef Resonancer het volgende:

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Mijn onderschrift is meteen mijn reactie. 50jr geleden werd hier al voor gewaarschuwd.

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Op donderdag 27 oktober 2011 20:26 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

Bill Maher Defends Occupy Wall Street

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Op zaterdag 29 oktober 2011 13:03 schreef Weltschmerz het volgende:

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Ik krijg er ook een "Told you so"-gevoel bij, net als bij die hele occupy-agenda. Alsof het allemaal recentelijk ontdekt is.

Het was oorlogsheld en republikein Eisenhower die waarschuwde voor de macht van het militair-industrieel complex.

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It is now two years since this latest European war began. From that day in September, 1939, until the present moment, there has been an over-increasing effort to force the United States into the conflict.

That effort has been carried on by foreign interests, and by a small minority of our own people; but it has been so successful that, today, our country stands on the verge of war.

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Do you find these crusaders for foreign freedom of speech, or the removal of censorship here in our own country?

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The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration.
Behind these groups, but of lesser importance, are a number of capitalists, Anglophiles, and intellectuals who believe that the future of mankind depends upon the domination of the British empire.
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Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.

Charles Lindbergh's - September 11, 1941 Des Moines Speech

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How Occupy Wall Street cost me my job.

I was standing beneath a news ticker near West 43rd Street and Broadway, and people began cheering as a headline about the movement scrolled across the ticker. I looked up, and at that moment a photographer took a photo of me holding the sign, and posted it to Twitter shortly thereafter.

The next day, Boing Boing co-editor Xeni Jardin posted the photo as the site's Occupy Wall Street sign of the day, the post circulated around Tumblr, Friedersdorf himself saw it and wrote about it, as did Felix Salmon at Reuters, who called me "one of those protestors that photographers dream of" and the sign "true, and accurate, and touching, and grammatical, and far too long to be a slogan, and gloriously bereft of punctuation, and ending even more gloriously in a mildly archaic preposition."

Beyond that, Salmon noted, the sign's internet notoriety showed that there was something about it that resonated with people. Which was really the whole point of why we made the sign, and of Friedersdorf's piece.

I thought all of this could be fodder for an interesting segment on The Takeaway—a morning news program co-produced by WNYC Radio and Public Radio International—for which I had been working as a freelance web producer roughly 20 hours per week for the past seven months. I pitched the idea to producers on the show, in an e-mail.

The next day, The Takeaway's director fired me over the phone, effective immediately. He was inconsolably angry, and said that I had violated every ethic of journalism, and that this should be a "teaching moment" for me in my career as a journalist. The segment I had pitched, of course, would not happen. Ironically, the following day Marketplace did pretty much the exact segment I thought would have been great on The Takeaway, with Kai Ryssdal discussing the sign and the Goldman Sachs deal it alluded to in terms that were far from neutral.

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Meet the anthropologist, activist, and anarchist who helped transform a hapless rally into a global protest movement

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When Graeber and his friends showed up on Aug. 2, however, they found out that the event wasnt, in fact, a general assembly, but a traditional rally, to be followed by a short meeting and a march to Wall Street to deliver a set of predetermined demands (A massive public-private jobs program was one, An end to oppression and war! was another). In anarchist argot, the event was being run by verticalstop-down organizationsrather than horizontals such as Graeber and his friends. Sagri and Graeber felt theyd been had, and they were angry.

What happened next sounds like an anarchist parable. Along with Kohso, the two recruited several other people disgruntled with the proceedings, then walked to the south end of the park and began to hold their own GA, getting down to the business of planning the Sept. 17 occupation. The original dozen or so people gradually swelled, despite the efforts of the events planners to bring them back to the rally. The tug of war lasted until late in the evening, but eventually all of the 50 or so people remaining at Bowling Green had joined the insurgent general assembly.

The groups that were organizing the rally, they also came along, recalls Kohso. Then everyone stayed very, very late to organize what committees we needed.

While there were weeks of planning yet to go, the important battle had been won. The show would be run by horizontals, and the choices that would followthe decision not to have leaders or even designated police liaisons, the daily GAs and myriad working-group meetings that still form the heart of the protests in Zuccotti Parkall flowed from that.

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Graebers problem with debt is not just that having too much of it is bad. More fundamental, he writes in his book, is debts perversion of the natural instinct for humans to help each other. Economics textbooks tell a story in which money and markets arise out of the human tendency to truck and barter, as Adam Smith put it. Before there was money, Smith argued, people would trade seven chickens for a goat, or a bag of grain for a pair of sandals. Then some enterprising merchant realized it would be easier to just price all of them in a common medium of exchange, like silver or wampum. The problem with this story, anthropologists have been arguing for decades, is that it doesnt seem ever to have happened. No example of a barter economy, pure and simple, has ever been described, let alone the emergence from it of money, writes anthropologist Caroline Humphrey, in a passage Graeber quotes.

People in societies without money dont barter, not unless theyre dealing with a total stranger or an enemy. Instead they give things to each other, sometimes as a form of tribute, sometimes to get something later in return, and sometimes as an outright gift. Money, therefore, wasnt created by traders trying to make it easier to barter, it was created by states like ancient Egypt or massive temple bureaucracies in Sumer so that people had a more efficient way of paying taxes, or simply to measure property holdings. In the process, they introduced the concept of price and of an impersonal market, and that ate away at all those organic webs of mutual support that had existed before.

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Op zaterdag 29 oktober 2011 21:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

CCP Finally Stumbles Over Occupy Wall Street

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Op zaterdag 29 oktober 2011 14:42 schreef Resonancer het volgende:

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Zekers, er was er nog eentje die het WEL durfde te zeggen op de historische symbolische datum 11 sept 1941.:

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Tja, hij kreeg het verwijt anti semitisch te zijn, maar oh..oh. wat heeft hij volgens mij gelijk.

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Oakland mayor under siege from all sides

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan has experienced poverty, racism and gender discrimination. As a student she went on strike at UC Berkeley in support of ethnic studies and boycotted grapes to support farmworkers. She fought to prevent the eviction of poor Asian seniors from the International Hotel in San Francisco, and she considers Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King, Jr., her heroes.

But after Tuesday's predawn raid on the Occupy Oakland camp at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, followed that night with police in riot gear shooting tear gas, bean bags and rubber bullets into large crowds of protesters, Quan finds herself in an unusual position. After less than year in office she is being criticized and booed by the working class, underemployed and unemployed -- the so-called 99 percent she has supported, fought for and defended her entire life.

"I'm pretty sad, and obviously it's very painful," she said Friday. Somebody in the national media "said I should have resigned. But I don't have time to think about politics. I have to keep people safe.

"I've been able to organize the communities and balance the budget. It's painful to have all your work defined by one thing. The city probably did make some mistakes. That's why I apologized to the family of Scott Olsen."