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Occupy Oakland Speaks Out…
Occupy Albany speaks out on Current TV with Keith Olbermann!
Occupy Albany receives an unlikely ally…
New York law enforcement, defies orders to arrest hundreds of Occupy Albany protesters!
How a lack of transparency enables police brutality…
“Excessive force by law enforcement is clearly a problem in the United States – and the only way to effectively reduce the prevalence of police brutality is to better understand the nature of the problem.”
Occupy Oakland Update..
You can read the following article at: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/10/25/18694892.php However, it has been pasted below, for your viewing: “The camp looks like a tornado went through it. Everything is destroyed, and it is currently occupied by hundreds of police.” IndyBay spoke with Tim, an organizer with Occupy Oakland, at 7:45am on Tuesday, just a few hours after numerous police agencies raided the encampment, using rubber bullets, tear gas and flash-bang grenades against activists, before arresting dozens of them. This is what he said: “Around 2am word spread that riot police were massing in around the area where Occupy Oakland has been for more than two weeks. Hundreds of people gathered and began to make non-violent barricades at all the entrances to the plaza. At about 4:30am, riot police appeared on all corners of the encampment. There were roughly 500 to 700 riot police in total. The entire plaza was completely barricaded on all sides, with palates, trash cans, chairs, a gigantic christmas wreath, police barricades from a neighboring street. Occupiers began chanting ‘go home’ as they always do when police show up at Occupy Oakland, but it quickly became clear that there was an overwhelming number of police from at least four different jurisdictions. As people continued to chant and fell back within the barricade, off of the street, the police announced that we would be arrested within the encampment. They said [they’d use force to disperse demonstrators within] five minutes, and within a minute they fired the first rounds of flash-bang grenades and rubber bullets, and then tear gas into the camp, hitting and injuring multiple people. At this point much of the crowd began to flee through an area the police had opened up to flush the crowd out. All those who remained were arrested. We know of roughly 70 arrests and multiple injuries, none of them extremely serious, but many for sure. At this time people are still standing up to the police line. The camp looks like a tornado went through it. Everything is destroyed, and it is currently occupied by hundreds of police. We’re asking for public condemnations of police repression of the occupy movement in Oakland and we’re also saying that people should re-converge at 14th and Madison at the public library for an emergency demonstration at 4pm today (Tuesday).”
Occupy Oakland
We are standing in solidarity with Occupy Oakland.
The police this morning starting at 4am, retaliated by shutting down public transit and also dispersed crowds using teargas. So far 70 plus have been arrested.
Occupy Oakland, we are in Solidarity with you and support you!
Want us?
Our Occupiers are traveling across the state meeting with other Occupation Groups! Want us in your area? Email us at info@occupycolumbiasc.org! Don’t forget, occupy with us as the capital of South Carolina, help us show our Representative and Senators South Carolinians will no longer tolerate our government continue running ‘business as usual’!
Attention…
Occupy Columbia is in need of Gloves or Mittens, as well Sleeping Bags! We are welcoming donations!
Attention…
STATE HOUSE, COLUMBIA: The participants of Occupy Columbia are celebrating one week of participation on Saturday, October 22. A public invitation is extended to all. Citizens are encouraged to gather at the State House grounds at 8pm for our “Nightmare on Main Street, USA” march into the Vista. Afterwards, there will be a dance on the lawn. Zombie costumes encouraged. No alcohol or drugs in attendance, please.
Thank You SC CIO-AFL!!!
The SC CIO-AFL members just brought some blankets by, we’d like to thank them for their support!! Pictures are coming soon!
A Curtesy Note…
THANK YOU OCCUPIERS AND LEGAL OBSERVERS WE HAD A GREAT MARCH TODAY NO ARRESTS AND THE POLICE MARCHED WITH US
MARCH TO THE BANKS TODAY!!
We are marching to the banks today at 2PM from the State House come to the State House’s North Face @ 1:30 to get ready!!!!
Rev. Martin Niemoller
They came first for the Communists, I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. They came for the Jews, I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. And then they came for me but by that time there was no one left to speak up.
In Recent News…
The Daily Gamecock: During a Flashmob exercise on campus, participants leave flashmob to join Occupy Columbia’s march. Thanks USC!
