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NEW PALTZ — The Occupy movement has made camp in Hasbrouck Park, and those involved say they’re staying for the long haul.”We’re going to be here all winter,” predicted Brent Stewart, 26, a lifelong New Yorker who most recently lived in Poughkeepsie.In fact, this installment of the Occupy movement consists primarily of refugees from one encampment that began in the City of Poughkeepsie back in mid-October. Activists logged 51 days in Hulme Park there before city police moved them out Wednesday.Participants in the New Paltz occupation say the citizens in Poughkeepsie welcomed them, but those in power did not.They’ve found a much more tolerant and accepting environment in the Village of New Paltz, they say.
via Occupiers move into New Paltz park | recordonline.com.
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Poughkeepsie protesters prepare to resist Hulme Park “eviction”POUGHKEEPSIE – Several hundred “Occupy Poughkeepsie” protesters braced for eviction by police Thursday evening, bolstered by numerous sympathizers who rallied in solidarity.They chanted, “This is what democracy looks like.”The activists have been camped out in Hulme Park, at 72 Market Street, since October 15. On Thursday morning they had received written notice from City Administrator Michael Long, telling them Hulme Park closes daily between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.“The City of Poughkeepsie certainly endorses and supports the right of public free speech; however, we just are asking for the organization to comply with the existing rules and regulations,” he told MidHudsonNews.com.As of 2 a.m. Friday morning, however, no police action was taken. Many who had arrived from other towns – to observe and lend moral support – gradually went home as temperatures dropped below frost levels. A counter-protest of about a dozen individuals shouting “get a job” were first to depart, just after midnight.
via Poughkeepsie protesters prepare to resist Hulme Park “eviction”.
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City of Poughkeepsie police said no tickets were issued overnight at the Occupy Poughkeepsie site in Hulme Park.Putnam County resident Jeff Green, 54, was there until about midnight and saw police vehicles drive by slowly at 11 p.m., but that was about the only law enforcement activity noticed.He told the Journal when he arrived there were about 40 protesters and numbers grew quickly to well over 100 by midnight, with small crowds of spectators gathered throughout the night.People, ranging in age from young adult to 60 plus, traveled from between Putnam County and Saugerties, while some said they were from Occupy Wall Street, Green said.Green said sometimes locals honked their car horns in support and a small group leaving a nearby bar "heckled" them."The overall feeling in the crowd was pensive early on and as 11 p.m. approached their spirits were high and the mood positive," he told the Journal.A legal team from the National Lawyers Guild was there to show support.A self-described community activist, Green added that Hulme Park, "has never been cleaner, has never been safer and has been crime free since the occupation began."Protesters at the encampment said Thursday they planned to maintain a presence [...]
Last week the parents of a Wisconsin boy sued Grant County District Attorney Lisa Riniker for charging their son with first-degree sexual assault, a Class B felony, after he played "butt doctor" with a 5-year-old girl. He was 6 at the time. When the boy’s lawyer tried to have the charge dismissed, Riniker replied: "The legislature could have put an age restriction in the statute if it wanted to. The legislature did no such thing."According to the complaint PDF, the girl is "the daughter of a well-known political figure in Grant County," and her brother, who is the same age, also was involved in playing doctor but was not charged. In addition to Riniker, the lawsuit names as defendants retired Grant County Sheriff’s Sgt. James Kopp and Jan Moravits, an investigator with Grant County Social Services "whose regional supervisor…is the political figure’s wife’s sister-in-law"—i.e., the aunt of the alleged victim.Although the boy, now 7, is too young to be prosecuted or named in a juvenile delinquency petitition, Madison.com reports, county officials are using the felony charge to force his parents into accepting "protection or services" for him. The lawsuit says that once he turns 18, he will be [...]
When local police departments are armed with military grade equipment, the soldier’s mentality is not far behind. Domestic policing has come to resemble a string of combat operations in a scene that repeats itself every time an Occupy encampment is raided, which raises the question: exactly what type of policing equipment is in the arsenal of law enforcement agencies in America?The average patrol officer’s belt holds a handgun, pepper spray canister, Taser, handcuffs and baton or nightstick. Multiply that by several hundred, which is the minimum number of police officers deployed to raid a large Occupy encampment, and the amount of firepower is startling. But it doesn’t stop there. Police departments are equipped with much more than is found on the standard on-duty police belt.
via Pepper-Spraying Protesters Is Just the Beginning: Here Are More Hypermilitarized Weapons Your Local Police Force Could Employ | | AlterNet.
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ast week’s ouster of protesters at New York’s Zuccotti Park, and incidents throughout the day of action for the Occupy Wall Street movement on Thursday November 17th show, perhaps more than ever, that it is important for activists wielding cameras to know how to record footage safely, effectively and with intention. Instances of alleged police brutality and the legality of actions by cities and their police forces have been highlighted by the hundreds of activists who are recording events as they happen at various Occupy protests.At WITNESS we’ve been training activists to use video to document human rights abuse for nearly 20 years. We’d like to share our Top 10 Tips for Filming Safely and Distributing Footage with an eye to the events of the Occupy Wall Street movement. We also have additional how-to video resources on our website.Please feel free to adapt, add to, and make suggestions to these in the comments below. And above all, we hope you will share them with activists and anyone who is using video to tell stories in order to create change.
via Witness: Filming Safely and Effectively at Occupy Wall Street and Beyond.
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Now the incident goes viral. The University is launching a probe. Strangely, though, the police act as though these new realities don’t exist or don’t matter. The question for those of us who value civil liberties is whether the police are right. In an age of increasingly diminishing liberty – police abuse, warrantless wire-tapping, indefinite detention, etc. etc. – maybe they really can act with impunity. Maybe a few heads will roll but the machine, the institution itself, will chug along unfettered as ever.
Maybe it’s time to Occupy more than Wall Street. I mean, I see that it’s all wound together. I really do appreciate the focus on crony capitalism and the revolving door between Washington D.C. and Wall Street. But the increasingly scary portrait of an ever more powerful, unhampered system of law enforcement really does worry me. These incidents illustrate why it should worry everyone, regardless of your class or political stripe.
via Maybe It’s Time to Occupy the Police State – Forbes.
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While it’s easiest to note the incidents of police violence, the protesters’ cameras also record what’s not in the images. Authorities have long claimed that they were merely battling the "black bloc" of violent anarchists. But when you look at all these videos, the bogeyman isn’t there.Instead, it’s a dozen scared kids and a police officer named John Pike spraying them in the face from three feet away. And while it’s his finger pulling the trigger, the police system is what put him in the position to be standing in front of those students. I am sure that he is a man like me, and he didn’t become a cop to shoot history majors with pepper spray. But the current policing paradigm requires that students get shot in the eyes with a chemical weapon if they resist, however peaceably. Someone has to do it.
via Why I Feel Bad for the Pepper-Spraying Policeman, Lt. John Pike – Alexis Madrigal – National – The Atlantic.
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This memo is the most concrete evidence yet that Occupy Wall Street is winning and the one percent is terrified that the movement’s message is powerfully resonating with the American people. The greatest irony of all is that the OWS message would have never been this effective if the Republican Party wouldn’t have spent the last three years trying to sabotage the American economy.
via John Boehner’s Lobbyists Plan A Massive Hit Job On Occupy Wall Street.
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A well-known Washington lobbying firm with links to the financial industry has proposed an $850,000 plan to take on Occupy Wall Street and politicians who might express sympathy for the protests, according to a memo obtained by the MSNBC program “Up w/ Chris Hayes.”The proposal was written on the letterhead of the lobbying firm Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford and addressed to one of CLGC’s clients, the American Bankers Association.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 protests and allied politicians. The memo also asserts that Democratic victories in 2012 would be detrimental for Wall Street and targets specific races in which it says Wall Street would benefit by electing Republicans instead.
via Open Channel – Lobbying firm’s memo spells out plan to undermine Occupy Wall Street.
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