New sign proposed for U.S. border control following the beating of science fiction author Dr Peter Watts who was just trying to head home to Canada and was clubbed, gassed, charged with a felony, and left in wet clothes in an unheated cell overnight during a snow-storm just for asking why his car was being searched. Thanks Boing Boing.
Ian Tomlinson was not part of the Wednesday G20 demonstration in London in any way, and yet some Police earned their nickname, “the filth,” as it is shown here that one officer is directly responsible for his death. The Guardian has on its website a video clip of Tomlinson walking through the protest area, hands in pockets, from his job selling newspapers, shortly before he died. The clip shows Tomlinson being assaulted by a masked police officer brandishing a baton (from behind, as all cowards do). Tomlinson was doing nothing to provoke the attack as the video clearly shows and the attack came without warning as the officer who attacked him, or any around them, offered any sign of a warning. He later rose, walked a few paces and then collapsed and died.
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UPDATE: the story has now entered the shaping stage in which the Met’s spin takes over.
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Photo: The Northwest Detention Center was developed by Burgess Weaver in association with HOK, Inc. for Correctional Services Corporation, a private detention contractor for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). — burgessweaver
Join us as we call for an end to discriminatory immigration and deportation policies that target people of color and Muslims in particular. We will start at the Northwest Detention Center on the Tacoma Tideflats and then march to the Tacoma Sheraton, location of the Pacific Northwest National Security Forum, which is bringing together military commanders to chart the course of US foreign aggression “beyond Iraq and Afghanistan”. We will connect the dots between unjust domestic practices and the wars being waged against the countries of the Mideast. We will call for an end to war and the planning of war, and for the inalienable rights of all members of the human family to be recognized and respected.
Speakers and Musicians:
Endorsed By:
United for Peace of Pierce County, the Arab American Community Coalition, Comite Pro Amnestia General y Justica Social, American Friends Service Committee, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, the Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace, the Seattle Raging Grannies, the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, the Tacoma Catholic Worker, and Seattle and Olympia Amnesty International.
Schedule:
Shuttles will be available, starting at 10:30, in front of the main entrance of the Tacoma Sheraton, for those who wish to leave their cars downtown for the first rally and march.
This is a permitted event and the organizers are working with the Tacoma police and volunteer peacekeepers to ensure everyone’s safety.
Or maybe it is related.
Everyone who is an activist is a target.”
— Attorney Lauren Regan, speaking at the
Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
By Paul Fattig
Mail Tribune of Southern Oregon
EUGENE — Environmental groups are being harassed, infiltrated and spied on by the FBI and police as never before, activist attorney Lauren Regan claimed Saturday during the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference here.
A member of a panel discussing government use of the U.S. Patriot Act, Regan urged activists to be cautious in their homes, at work and in legal actions such as civil disobedience. Read the rest at the Mail Tribune.
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“It has the feel in many ways like the difficult times of the ‘60s and the Vietnam War era,” observed Chip Dennerlein, new director of the Siskiyou Regional Education Project in the Illinois Valley.”It’s a very dangerous trend,” he added. “It’s chilling and it is meant to be chilling.”
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Some came and took our land, forced us to leave, forced us to live in camps. I think this is terrorism. Using means to resist this terrorism and stop its effects – this is called struggle.
Interview with Gaza Flotilla participants
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