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pdb | 11.30.2011
As Occupy Philly comes to terms with the recent police violence, I can almost hear the white radicals gloating that they were right: "see the police are NOT our friends after all". Silly I say, but more like dangerous. As Occupy Philly comes to terms with the recent police violence, I can almost hear the white radicals gloating that they were right: "see the police are NOT our friends after all".
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Steven Argue | 10.30.2011
Key unions are on board and will shut down construction sites and the Port of Oakland Scott Olsen Cannot Talk Due to the Brain Injury Caused by Police Violence General Strike and Mass Protest on Weds. Nov. 2nd! Drop the Charges Against All Occupy Protesters! By Steven Argue
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Ritt Goldstein | 10.30.2011
We have seen the current 'Battle of Oakland', but this wasn't the first such 'battle' the City's police have waged on peaceful protesters. In a democratic society, one would hope it's 'a crime' if those exercising their constitutionally guaranteed right to dissent become targeted as 'an enemy', with no small paradox when an Iraq vet -- who supposedly fought to bring democracy and freedom -- is seriously wounded for peacefully demonstrating at home. Courageous 2003 protester
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Ritt Goldstein | 10.30.2011
Summary: We have seen the current 'Battle of Oakland', but this wasn't the first such 'battle' the City's police have waged on peaceful protesters. In a democratic society, one would hope it's 'a crime' if those exercising their constitutionally guaranteed right to dissent become targeted as 'an enemy', with no small paradox when an Iraq vet -- who supposedly fought to bring democracy and freedom -- is seriously wounded for peacefully demonstrating at home. OpEd News - "Occupy, the 'Battles of Oakland', and the Face of US Police Abuse" On Tuesday riot police raided the ongoing Occupy demonstration in Oakland, California, beginning a period of sustained police violence against the protesters. But, this 'battle' against those exercising the right to peaceful protest isn't Oakland's first. image: 
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Ritt Goldstein | 10.26.2011
Given the police actions in Oakland, the arrests in Atlanta, in a real way it's a measure of Occupy's success that such a 'climate of repression' exists. However, the key question is what will the 'climate' facing the courageous become, how far will America's police -- police that are a real part of the victimized 99% -- actually go? I personally can well recall Spring 1970, when the National Guard shot and killed four protesting students at Kent State University, the 'Kent State Massacre'. As one such memory in a lifetime is too many, are our government and its police truly eager to provide Occupy and America with more martyrs? Occupy Wall Street and the Criminalization of Non-violent Dissent October 25, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- 'Semper fi' is all one can say after watching video of Sergeant Shamar Thomas, a marine who indeed seems to proudly recall the oath he took to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States", the rights to peaceful protest contained in it. In defending Occupy demonstrators, Thomas told NYPD that there was "no honor" in brutalizing unarmed US citizens, and that's a message that's long needed delivery.
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Arturo Castillon, Iladelph Liberation | 01.14.2011
This is an in-depth analysis of the neighborhood based Peoples Court movement which emerged in September in response to the near death beating of Askia Sabur.    The black working class is currently leading the way in the development of new forms of revolutionary organization in Philadelphia. This is reflected in the community based People’s Courts that formed in response to the near death beating of Askia Sabur in West Philadelphia on September 3rd, 2010. Askia had not complied with police orders to leave a street corner as he was waiting for his food at a Chinese store in his community, on 55th and Lansdowne.
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Rachel Hiskes | 12.09.2010
After midnight on Thursday, December 9, 2010 the Puerto Rican police force, including SWAT forces broke into the Rio Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), as well as other campuses. For more information, check out student-run news at www.radiohuelga.com, www.rojogallito.com or for English language news, www.dailysunpr.org. After midnight on Thursday, December 9, 2010 the Puerto Rican police force, including SWAT forces broke into the Rio Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), as well as other campuses. In multiple police cars, jeeps, and passenger vans, various branches of the police force, including the SWAT team in full riot gear entered the campus, after being prohibited from doing so for over 31 years. Puerto Rico’s ultra-conservative governor, Luis Fortuño, and his political ally the UPR president Jose Ramon de la Torre broke the non-confrontation policy even after the campus dean said that police would not enter after striking students left.
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UhuruNews.org | 09.27.2010
PHILADELPHIA — On Friday, September 17, organizations such as the New Black Panther Party, MOVE, Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation, the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) marched with the African community and the family of Askia Sabur on the 19th police district, demanding justice for Askia and the entire black community. PHILADELPHIA — On Friday, September 17, organizations such as the New Black Panther Party, MOVE, Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation, the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) marched with the African community and the family of Askia Sabur on the 19th police district, demanding justice for Askia and the entire black community. Brother Askia Sabur is a 29-year-old African man who was savagely beaten by a mob of black cops in West Philly in front of a Chinese restaraunt on 55th St. and Landsdowne Ave.
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Internationalist Group | 07.06.2010
Today in the United States, under the Democratic administration of Barack Obama, xenophobic and racist violence is escalating. The criminal agents of the Border Patrol have reached the point of killing in cold blood, before the eyes of hundreds of witnesses. On May 28, construction worker Anastasio Hernández Rojas was beaten to death by some 20 agents of the U.S. Border Patrol. Then on June 7 in Ciudad Juárez, across the river from El Paso, Border Patrol agents fired into a group of youths on the Mexican side of of the border, murdering 14-year-old Adrián Hernández with a shot to the head. These crimes are part of a policy of racist repression looking for scapegoats, typified by the legalization of xeonophobia and police use of racial profiling in Arizona’s SB 1070 law. But while Obama criticize the law, “Obama, listen, we are in the struggle,” his thugs are killing on the border. It is an illusion to think that the commander in chief of U.S. imperialism, or his counterpart and semi-colonial underling, Mexican president Felipe Calderón, will defend the workers. It is necessary to mobilize the power of the working class to defend immigrants.
After Racist Arizona Law, Obama’s Border Patrol Kills MexicansBlood on the Border
Protest march in San Diego, June 3, over the killing of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, murdered by the U.S. Border Patrol on May 28. (Photo: Alexandra Mendoza/Diario San Diego)
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Anonymous | 06.22.2010
San Antonio Park Police and Cellular On Patrol try to frame homeless park visitor For complete story with working pictures and video see links below: http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2010/06/737996.php 
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