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3000 Cops Evict Occupy Los Angeles
Miley Cyrus For OWS
Posted to her official YouTube channel.
Read More »Chaos At Occupy Oakland
Tomorrow: Buy Nothing Day
From the same folks that brought you OWS.
Read More »$13M Spent Nationally On OWS
Think Progress reports that wingnut blogs are going apeshit over the just-released estimate on police overtime and other costs related to OWS. The above chart provides some perspective.
Read More »The Cadillac Of Citizen Repression
Ever since the UC Davis incident, wiseguys have been flooding Amazon with reviews of the pepper spray on sale. At this writing, the below is the “most helpful” review. Whenever I need to breezily inflict discipline on unruly citizens, I know I can trust Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray to get the job …
Read More »Photo Of The Day – OWS Note To Obama
That’s the president’s hand clutching the note that an OWS protester slipped him after his jobs speech in New Hampshire this afternoon.
Read More »Best Buy Co-Opts OWS
Anybody with a Facebook account knows how “occupy” has become a pervasive meme applicable to just about any situation. But this may be the first such usage in a national advertising campaign. And just yesterday I was snickering at a press release touting a porn movie titled Occupy My Throat.
Read More »Anti-OWS Douchebag Is A Scam Artist
Those two brothers who protested against OWS? Turns out one of them is a Wall Street scam artist. Working as a broker in New York in the 1990s, Tabacco was barred from the industry, fined $50,000, and ordered to pay $20,000 in restitution after a misconduct incident, according to Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) records. FINRA is not a government …
Read More »Lobbying Firm Offers To “Undermine OWS”
According to a leaked memo, a DC-based lobbying firm often hired by banks pitched its clients on how they could undermine Occupy Wall Street by planting unsavory news items about its participants, among other tactics. CLGC’s memo proposes that the ABA pay CLGC $850,000 to conduct “opposition research” on Occupy Wall Street in order to construct “negative narratives” about the …
Read More »UC Davis Chancellor: I Won’t Resign
Despite widespread condemnation for the pepper-spraying incident on her campus, the chancellor of UC Davis says she will not resign. Via Talking Points Memo: Two police officers involved in a pepper-spraying incident at the University of California-Davis have been placed on leave, and over the weekend, the university’s faculty association called for the chancellor’s resignation. But Chancellor Linda Katehi told …
Read More »UC Davis Investigates Police Brutality
RELATED: The school’s chancellor was the subject of an eerie silent protest by students as she walked to her car. The chancellor is already the subject of a resignation petition.
Read More »Gingrich To OWS: Get A Job & Take A Bath
He’d clearly been saving this line all night.
Read More »Resisting Arrest
(Source) UPDATE: AmericaBlog has the story and information about the already-launched campaign against the cop. UPDATE II: There’s video.
Read More »Fox News Vs. OWS
Occupy Batsignal On NYC Skyline
(Via – Village Voice)
Read More »Pepper-Sprayed At Occupy Portland
New York, New York
NYPD Uses Sonic Weapon On OWS
Twitter is lighting up with OWS reports that the NYPD is using a handheld sonic cannon known as an L-RAD or Long-Range Acoustic Device. “Long-Range Acoustic Devices (L-RADs) send harmful, pain inducing tones over longer distances and are rarely deployed for crowd control purposes.” Note: The below clip doesn’t show the weapon being used.
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