The truth about violence at Occupy - Salon.com
“While the camp was in existence, crime went down 19 percent in Oakland, a statistic the city was careful to conceal.”
America, and stuff.
We are calling for February 20th, 2012 to be a “National Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners.”
In the Bay Area we will “Occupy San Quentin,” to stand in solidarity with the people confined within its walls and to demand the end of the incarceration as a means of containing those dispossessed by unjust social policies. …
We call on Occupies across the country to support:
1. Abolishing unjust sentences, such as the Death Penalty, Life Without the Possibility of Parole, Three Strikes, Juvenile Life Without Parole, and the practice of trying children as adults.
2. Standing in solidarity with movements initiated by prisoners and taking action to support prisoner demands, including the Georgia Prison Strike and the Pelican Bay/California Prisoners Hunger Strikes.
3. Freeing political prisoners, such as Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, Lynne Stewart, Bradley Manning and Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald, a Black Panther Party member incarcerated since 1969.
4. Demanding an end to the repression of activists, specifically the targeting of African Americans and those with histories of incarceration, such as Khali in Occupy Oakland who could now face a life sentence, on trumped-up charges, and many others being falsely charged after only exercising their First Amendment rights.
5. Demanding an end to the brutality of the current system, including the torture of those who have lived for many years in Secured Housing Units (SHUs) or in solitary confinement.
6. Demanding that our tax money spent on isolating, harming and killing prisoners, instead be invested in improving the quality of life for all and be spent on education, housing, health care, mental health care and other human services which contribute to the public good.
Endorsers list (in formation)
Angela Davis
Arizona Prison Watch
California Coalition for Women Prisoners
Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Community Futures Collective
Elaine Brown
International Coalition to Free the Angola 3
Jack Bryson
Kevin Cooper
Kevin Cooper Defense Committee
Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu Jamal
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu Jamal
National Committee to Free the Cuban Five
Occupied Oakland Tribune
Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality and State Repression
Peoples’ Action for Rights and Community
Prison Activist Resource Center
Prison Radio
Prison Watch Network
Real Cost of Prisons
Redwood Curtain CopWatch
San Francisco Bay View Newspaper
Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal, former hostages in Iran and human rights activists
Solitary Watch News
Stanley Tookie Williams IV
Stanley Tookie Williams Legacy Network
Occupy protesters stop a group of big-rigs from entering the Port of Oakland, December 12, 2011.
Hearing on #OWS eviction
Court hearing on
#OWS eviction - 60 Centre Street, Stolman room 412 - claiming its already at capacity. People rallying outside.
Occupy Cal/Walk out
Stop Beating Students of the Day: UC Berkeley students clashed with police this afternoon after several tents were set up outside Sproul Hall as part of an Occupy-style protest against tuition and fee hikes as well funding cuts for public education.
Officers in riot gear used their batons in an effort break through a human chain of peaceful “Occupy Cal” protesters that had formed to prevent police from tearing down the tents.
At least seven people were arrested, and the tents were eventually cleared away, but returned later on. According to reports, police plan to remove the tents again later tonight, and a second “showdown” with the remaining protesters is expected.
UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau told students earlier this week that the university supports the spirit of Occupy Wall Street, but will not allow camping on its grounds.
[nbcbayarea / mercury / dailycal.]
I was there.
"There is always some thing that flows or flees, that escapes binary organizations, the resonance apparatus, and the overcoding machine: things that are attributed to a ‘change in values,’ the youth, women, the mad, etc…it was the same with May ‘68: those who evaluated things in macropolitical terms understood nothing of the event because something unaccountable was escaping. The politicians, the parties, the unions, many leftists, were utterly vexed; they kept repeating over and over again that ‘conditions’ were not ripe. It was as through they had been temporarily deprived of the entire dualism machine that made them valid spokespeople."
-Deleuze and Guattari, on micropolitics and the May 1968 protests in France.
Does this not accurately describe the Occupy Wall St movement(s)/response(s) to Occupy?
