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Published on May 24, 2012 by OccupyTravels It was estimated that about 10,000 – 15,000 people participated in the NATO protest in Chicago. Video includes Tom Morello, Vermin Supreme, interviews with protesters, black bloc, and more. It’s a must see! Join Us! Subscribe to WAMMToday from our blog website and “Follow” us. wammtoday.wordpress.com. To sign up for WAMMToday’s [...]
NLG RELEASE: NATO Police Violence, Serious Injuries, High-Level Charges & High Bonds Are City’s Reaction to Protests by Occupy Chicago Press Relations on Friday, May 25, 2012 at 5:47pm · PRESS RELEASE Chicago Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild For Immediate Release: May 25, 2012 National Lawyers Guild Provides Wrap-up of Police Actions During Week-long NATO Demonstrations Police [...]
Editor’s note: This list contains some of the media that has come to WAMMToday’s attention, but by no means is intended to be comprehensive. Here is a link to the Chicago Tribune’s gallery of photos for the day. They specialize in confrontation, and have very little about the pre-march activity or the march itself. Jennie, [...]
Scott Thompson> Report-Back From Chicago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl4u489rFeE&feature=youtu.be By now, many of you have probably seen media accounts of a “clash” or (as one paper called it) a “bloody melee” between protesters and riot police at the NATO summit in Chicago. I’m in a position to clarify only some aspects of what really happened, because I was [...]
Published on May 2, 2012 by democracynow DemocracyNow.org – Hundreds of thousands of people across the world marked May Day on Tuesday by filling the streets and demanding better working conditions, greater job security and improved quality of life. May Day, also known as International Worker’s Day, resonated with protesters from Spain to Bangladesh to Iraq and throughout [...]
FROM: Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers MESSAGE: Dear Mayor Rybak, The Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers, a coalition of representatives from over 75 Twin Cities peace organizations and churches which include, to name just a few, the Basilica of St Mary, Hennepin Avenue Methodist, St Luke’s Presbyterian, St Mark’s Cathedral, Macalester Plymouth, Judson Memorial Baptist, The First Unitarian Society of [...]
America’s police are out of control BY TONY BOUZA April 2012 Southside Pride What can possibly justify so sweeping an assertion? I will try. I started in policing on 1/1/53 in the NYPD, rose, over 24 years, to command Bronx forces and then served three as #2 in the Transit Police. This was [...]
UC Davis Pepper Spray Report Released: Campus Police Force ‘Very Dysfunctional’ Pepper spraying incident ‘should and could have been prevented’ Common Dreams staff April 11, 2012 Common Dreams Months after students at UC Davis were filmed being soaked in pepper spray and arrested by police in riot gear after peacefully protesting at their [...]
Uploaded by WAMMMall on Apr 9, 2012 April 7 was Re-Occupy Day in Minneapolis — Occupiers gathered in Peavey Plaza and Loring Park. After being evicted from Peavey at 1:30 am, they peacefully marched down the street and were brutally attacked by the police. Videos at www.occupyminneapolis.mn show the police pulling several people off public sidewalks and violently slamming a [...]
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