Daily Kos: Breaking! Occupy Oakland Police use gas, mass arrests!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/25/1029800/-Breaking-Occupy-Oakland-Police-use-gas-mass-arrests

OK so please click the link above to read the whole live blog that was kept from that night..

I just wanted to pull out a few things that made me smile more than a whole year after this Nazi like raid took place.

Thanks for watching. I hope my style, my observations, and even my anger at injustice, has at least been a p0sitive influence on this crazy, fucked up, beautiful, world. It is my wish that whatever you glean from what I have tried to publish, through the fleeting glance of social media, it helps you to understand yourself, and the current state of the world, just a little bit better.

Enough lamenting. What I wanted to contain in this post, was that, in my first month of streaming and Tweeting for the #Occupy movement, I thought I was totally amateurish. That I lacked professionalism. I know I shouted down many a rank and file officer, especially during the raids, but I know that being the bizarre emotionally centered empath that I am, the anger that  flowed through me, came from the energy all around me in those days (and there certainly was a lot of it). I have since reflected on how unproductive it seems to me now, but I am not living in the time I was then.

Before I get even further off topic, I just need to say, thanks to everyone who has supported me, watched over me from afar, tossed my WePay a couple of bucks when you could, sent me kind words, watched any of my streams, read my tweets, and even just waved or smiled in passing. All this makes it all worth it.

We may not get everything we are demanding out of all this, but the fight for right will wage on, and these unprecedented times will not go un-noticed by amateur historians, like myself.

Expect Us

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• * [new]  Livestream just went into City Hall (12+ / 0-)

  and was escorted by Officer Bolton into the press room.

  This guy, I think he said his name is punkboy??something has been doing a fantastic job with the livestream, narrating all along the way.

  At one point a reporter from Mother Jones asked to interview him and he politely refused, saying he had a couple thousand people on the livestream and could not, needed to attend to the job of livestreaming.

  On the way into City Hall they passed the encampment.  It was larger than I had realized.  The tents were all flattened. That was about all I could see.

  Now he’s in the press room.  I guess the press conference did not start yet.

  I hope he has enough battery power.

  Anyway, mostly I wanted to say that he has been outstanding with the livestream.

   

  by joanneleon on Tue Oct 25, 2011 at 09:12:57 AM PDT

   

  • * [new]  He’s be superb! Twitter account: (1+ / 0-)

    @punkboyinsf

    He’s archived all his raw footage and will (he says) be making some short videos. He got gassed, stayed at the scene during the raid, and then made it inside to the press conference and filmed it.
    Kudos

     

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    “When the powerless are shut out of the media, we will make the media irrelevant” ~Anonymous~

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    by Lisa Lockwood on Tue Oct 25, 2011 at 01:02:08 PM PDT

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This is Chaplin’s speech in English:

“I’m sorry but I don’t want to be an Emperor, that’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say “Do not despair”. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die liberty will never perish. Soldiers: don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate, only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers: don’t fight for slavery, fight for liberty. In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written: “The kingdom of God is within man” Not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men; in you, you the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let us use that power, let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future, and old aged security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfill that promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!”

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Solidarity Park gets cleared out by LAPD OccupyFreedomLA on USTREAM. Citizen Journalist http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18834054#utm_campaign=unknown&utm_source=18834054&utm_medium=social

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CyberGuerrilla AnoNneXus
http://www.cyberguerrilla.org/blog/?p=7718&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Greetings from Anonymous,

It has come to our attention that conservative and pro-Israeli groups throughout the blogosphere have taken advantage of Operation Israel, attempting to solidify public opinion against Anonymous.

TheOtherMcCain.com posted an editorial this morning which stated the following: “If you ever doubted that Anonymous was a terrorist organization, they have now removed all reason for doubt.” The article only contained 55 words of original content by the site itself, the other 90 percent of the article was selected quotations by mainstream media sources.

Let us once again be perfectly clear: Anonymous does not in any way support the use of violence. Anonymous is a world wide collective of individuals whose means pursue human rights, justice, and universal equality for the citizens of every nation.

Pro-Israeli groups throughout the world have grown from a foundation of Israeli/US propaganda and lies. They arbitrarily dismiss the apartheid system of racial segregation and oppression imposed by the Israeli government on the Palestinian people. The fact of the matter is, in the eyes of the media, only the United States and it’s allies are capable of labeling another state or organization as a terrorists. Throughout our campaign, we’ve been inundated with one response in particular; references to Hamas hiding in school buildings or using women and children as human shields. Selective memory seems to have given pro-Israeli organizations the ability to forget that in 2005 Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz appeared in court to defend the practice of using Palestinians as human shields in combat after a supreme court outlawed the practice, noting it violated International Law.

The reasons for Anonymous intervention through #OpIsrael should be abundantly clear: What is happening in Palestine is oppression. They have no navy, no army, or air force. There is no war in Gaza. There is only the continuous application of military force by Israel in an attempt to push every last person out of the Palestinian state, despite international laws that make these efforts illegal. This illegal expansion of territory by Israel in to the Palestinian state has been ongoing since1948, making refugees of over 700,000 Palestinians. Today, Palestinians are not permitted to live in Israeli settlements, drive on Israeli roads or even travel is the “security” areas surrounding them. These Israeli only housing developments are being built on stolen land, even while being called illegal settlements by the International Court of Justice.

The violence inflicted upon the civilian residents of Gaza is well documented, despite the fact that Israel has adamantly opposed intervention by human rights organizations and the IDF constantly blocks and harasses international journalists.

Despite these facts, Anonymous has not used any anti-Semitic language during our campaign. Nor have we vocalized any support for Palestinian military operations or resistance groups. Our goal was to protect the rights of Palestinian people who are threatened with silence as Israel has made attempts to shut down cell phone and internet service throughout Gaza. We know what happens to victims of oppression when the lights go dark.

It is also worthy to note, that as of yesterday, members of Anonymous participating in #OpIsrael were making attempts to augment our Gaza Care Package for civilians in Tel Aviv by translating the same documents in to Hebrew in the event that they lose access to internet service as well. We do not racially or geographically differentiate between victims of violence or oppression anywhere in the world.

Both Palestinians and Israelis need to find common ground and end the violence that has already resulted in the deaths of innocent people, including children. Israel’s advancement on Palestinian Territories and the racist oppression of Palestinian people needs to end.

We are not terrorists. Governments that fund wars, practice deceit against their own citizens, condone corruption, and turn a blind eye to the deaths of innocent people are terrorists. The word terror does not belong to Israel or the United States. We will judge you by your actions.

Peace and Freedom to all,

#OpIsrael #Anonymous

Anonymous Gaza Care Package: http://www.mediafire.com/?hpnne29xvx1ceuv #OpIsrael Information and Tools: http://www.anonpaste.me/anonpaste2/index.php? 052e585589d89b5d#V7ELmwHwFZ6gm+mv3/BH0M2bw035NxDE7qaf55tRIBY=

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