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By Dave Rice / SanDiegoReader.com
Members of the Tea Party’s San Diego contingent gathered this afternoon at Civic Center Plaza to denounce the Occupy San Diego movement. They were led by Rhonda Deniston, an Oceanside woman who, while filming an altercation with Occupiers (warning: link includes coarse language), was struck by a protester after refusing to stop filming.
Under the weight of the forcible and late night eviction of the epicenter of the Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti…
Via RT.com
If you thought the recent crackdowns of Occupy encampments across the country was more than a coincidence, there is a good chance you were right. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan admits to talking to other cities before the massive coast-to-coast evictions .
In an interview this morning with the BBC, Mayor Quan reveals that she spoke with officials from other cities over the phone before a Monday morning raid that led to the eviction of hundreds of Occupy Oakland protesters and the arrests of many.
This week’s story is the utter appalling hypocrisy exposed in how the police responded to two protests on November 9. The first took place at Cal Berkeley, where a thousand students protested the steep hikes in student tuition and the ongoing administrative tilt toward privatization. They attempted to establish an occupation on the campus with tents. The police viciously lunged with their batons at students who had linked arms. There were 39 arrests that day and no one knows how many of these young people are still walking around with welts on their body from that barbaric attack. As a post script, we now know that linking arms is a form of violence that justified the police response.
“And so, demonstrating like this is as American as apple pie. We have been marching up and down and demonstrating throughout our history…” Former Secretary of State Colin Powell
We’ve all seen by now the “people’s” videos of non-violent women in NYC being surrounded with orange net and pepper sprayed by the police…
By Martha Sullivan
Per the San Diego Police Department’s webpage , “A citizen who is dissatisfied with police services or believes they have witnessed or been a victim of police misconduct can file a complaint using one or more of the following methods:” — which include email to the Police Chief, Citizens Review Board and/or Mayor, all of whom are addressed here.
My name is Martha Sullivan, and I am a resident of the City of San Diego at 2354 Carmel Valley Road, 92014; I also own a small business which is based in Sorrento Valley.
On the evening of Tuesday, November 8, 2011, I attended the musical, “Come Fly Away” at the San Diego Civic Theater ….
Here are matters that concern our very own version of Occupy Wall Street : Occupy San Diego – going since October 7, 2011.
At the City Beat, Dave Maass reports:
Of the 877 emails and phone calls regarding Occupy received by the Mayor’s office, 90 percent have supported the movement.
This is great – as the OB Rag and others solicited support for the occupiers with a call for people to telephone or email the Mayor’s office. Maass doesn’t say over what period of time these emails and calls came in, but we’re smiling like a Cheshire cat. Sanders should start chanting “You are the 90 per cent!”
Editor: This timely article by Norm Stamper – a former assistant police chief of San Diego – and former police chief of Seattle – is worthy of your time. Stamper is also a member of LEAP – Law Enforcement Against Prohibition of marijuana.
By Norm Stamper / The Nation / Nov. 28, 2011 Issue
They came from all over, tens of thousands of demonstrators from around the world, protesting the economic and moral pitfalls of globalization. Our mission as members of the Seattle Police Department? To safeguard people and property—in that order. Things went well the first day. We were praised for our friendliness and restraint—though some politicians were apoplectic at our refusal to make mass arrests for the actions of a few.
The Washington Post has picked up the story about how our local Sheriff mistreated those arrested during the October 28th raids on the Occupy San Diego sites. This report at the venerable DC daily – although only on their blog column – has been nearly the only national attention that San Diego’s movement has received.
The Sheriff has admitted that dozens of arrestees were left in vans and a bus after the raids for many hours with no access to restroom facilities or water. Reports from those arrested have said that they were held from four to eight hours or even as much as twelve hours before they were processed at a detention center.
Dave Maass at San Diego City Beat reported:
The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department has ordered a formal internal review of its involvement in the mass arrest of 51 Occupy San Diego activists on Oct. 28, particularly in regards to detainees who had no choice but to urinate and defecate while detained in county buses and vans.
Come join me, Patty (am I still considered middle-class?), and more than 50 middle-class women from throughout San Diego County as we hold a press conference and rally in the Civic Center Plaza at 4 p.m. this Saturday, Nov. 12, to announce their support for Occupy San Diego.
What began with a few friends a week ago has snowballed as women are signing up by the dozens on Facebook and SignUpGenius.
This is for Carl DeMaio, the San Diego City Council, the muts, the baggers, the weasels, the gators, the creepers, Fox News, the AP, Koch-heads who’d have you think that working parents spawn “Occupiers” by sending their children to daycare, the WSJ, all those people who let the media give them the heebie-jeebies with their talk of piss and blood…
The following is a brief history of Occupy San Diego. Part 1.
This general outline – not meant to be all inclusive – is a recording of what has occurred during the Occupy San Diego movement, beginning in late September and continuing to today, the first part of November. It is an outline to help us recall what we did during those heady first weeks of planning and carrying out our very first actions. But as our movement involved hundreds and thousands of individuals and all kinds of different activities, this is not complete.
September 17, 2011 – Occupy Wall Street begins occupation at Zoccotti Park, next to Wall Street.
Mid to Late September 2011 – Facebook, twitter and other social media are used to generate interest in an Occupy Wall Street type action in San Diego. After some days of discussion, a plan is formulated to hold an Occupy San Diego action that is non-violent, is in solidarity with OWS in New York, and to use the “Egyptian model” of occupying some kind of public / private space to press for changes in the economic and social systems.
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