[youtube=http://youtu.be/ZMe03vnLUJ4] Published on Dec 23, 2013 On Wednesday, December 4th, 2013, Ali Issa, national field organizer with War Resisters League, spoke at an event called "The War Here and Abroad: CUNY and U.S. Empire" at CUNY's Graduate Center in NYC. The City University of New York - one of the largest public university systems in the More
The Over-Policing of America Police Overkill Has Entered the DNA of Social Policy By Chase Madar December 8, 2013 tomdispatch.com Read Tom Dispatch editor Tom Engelhardt's introduction here. Xurble. Art from truthdig.com posting of this article.If all you’ve got is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail. And if police and More
NEWSLETTER November 1st, 2013 PopularResistance.org Powered by Translate Chris Hedges has an important essay in Truthdig this week, Our Invisible Revolution. [Posted separately on WAMMToday] Essentially he describes a revolution of the mind in which people’s consciousness are raised as they become aware of the inability of the current governmental and economic systems to respond to the More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/VijNLRU0v0M] Editor's Note: This interview (and the book) is very good as far as it goes. But they do not talk about the warrior cops in the streets who go after protesters and who quashed the Occupy movement, or rather drove the Occupy movement to different types of protest using militarized police forces, since Occupy More
Twenty Examples of the Obama Administration Assault on Domestic Civil Liberties Bill Quigley December 1, 2011 CommonDreams.org The Obama administration has affirmed, continued and expanded almost all of the draconian domestic civil liberties intrusions pioneered under the Bush administration. Here are twenty examples of serious assaults on the domestic rights to freedom of speech, More
How the Drug War and 9/11 Led to Battle-Dressed Cops Cracking Down on Peaceful Protests If the infrastructure of a police state is created, it's only a matter of time before those aggressive powers are used. The Creeping Militarization of Civil Life Heather "Digby" Parton, Al Jazeera English / AlterNet Submitted by David Culver Photo More
Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, Ms. Civil Society v. Mr. Unaccountable Tom Dispatch When it set up its campsite at Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street was facing in only one direction: toward the financial heart of the planet two blocks away. The police, who promptly surrounded the encampment and organized their own occupation of the neighborhood, were in a sense facing More
Civil Society at Ground Zero You Can Crush the Flowers, But You Can’t Stop the Spring Rebecca Solnit November 22. 2011 Tom Dispatch Last Tuesday, I awoke in lower Manhattan to the whirring of helicopters overhead, a war-zone sound that persisted all day and then started up again that Thursday morning, the two-month anniversary More
The Banality of Evil Reflections on UCDavis Incident and the Occupy Movement I notice that University of California (UC) President Mark Yudof, former president of the University of Minnesota, has spoken up loud and clear against the violence, as has the UCDavis Chancellor herself, with vows to assure the safety of students, etc. There is nothing wrong More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGf9wEIXMns&w=560&h=315] New video of police spraying students: "UC Davis Police Pepper-Spray Seated Students In Occupy Dispute (VIDEO) (UPDATES)" http://tinyurl.com/7dja8lz Uploaded by clickbank120 on Nov 19, 2011 You may subscribe to WAMMToday from this blog website. WAMMToday is now on Facebook! Check the WAMMToday page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYaA-34c-vI] 9-20-11 This video was taken Sept. 20, 2011 at 10:08 a.m. (Eastern) in Zuccotti Park - New York, NY JOIN THE CONVERSATION ON TWITTER UTILIZE THE FOLLOWING HASHTAGS: #OCCUPYWALLSTREET #OURWALLSTREET #TAKEWALLSTREET
Also included is the steady rolling back of the Posse Comitatus Act, which basically prohibits the federal government from using the military for domestic law enforcement. The Strange and Dangerous Militarization of the US Police Force Our Creeping Police State: How Going to the Mall of America Can Land You in an FBI Counterterrorism Report More
