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NOTES FROM THE OCCUPY LA UNDERGROUND 4 BY NOWHERE MAN

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Chicago's Anti-Capitalist/FTP march NATO--G-8 2012

I ran up a windy street past scattered groups of black bandana-masked protesters till I reached the first line of riot cops.  Night was falling.  This wasn't going to be like the other occupation marches I'd been on for two days.  You could feel it in the air.  Tension.  This was a large urban FTP march with an anti-capitalist theme--never a boring combination.  The Chicago Police Department was about to see civil disobedience in a qualitative way that they hadn't seen in that town since the 60s.  The Occupy Wall Street movement had energized and united group-after-group on the left in a profound way.  The crowd grew and grew in the shadow of mid-level urban buildings.  Hundreds of police, dozens of vehicles and the entire horse line of the CPD were shadowing us, unseen just a few blocks away.  What they were soon to see were teens with black masks, young eyes with far-away looks peering from above bandanas, red flags with letters made of duct tape, etc.   Then the group started to move.  The dance  that is civil unrest in 21st century America began--actually a beautiful thing if you're observant, yet if a right-wing Tea Partier had been there I have no doubt they wouldn't have said much more than : "“Oh, my Lord! They’re the worse kind of Commie, Pinko, Socialist filth I’ve ever had to lay my red-white-&-blue eyeballs on! Are you blind? Don’t you understand the threat that these and their kind are to the American way of life?  What a disgrace! This’ll only go over like a fart in church!”  But there weren’t any right-wingers in this crowd.  The protesters surged along under bridges of steel and concrete holding up pamphlets with words like Revolution and Socialism.

Authorization for Use of Military Force ... On YOU

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AUMF 2001 (PL 107-40) did not target the "terrorists" behind the 9/11 attacks. Its target was and is the taxpaying American citizen. Here are the only two ways to take yourself out of the crosshairs.

If you ask most Americans how many World Trade Center towers were demolished on 9/11, they'll say 2. The correct answer is 3. If you remind them that WTC-7 came down as well as WTC-1 and WTC-2, and then ask them how many World Trade Center towers were struck by airplanes or seriously damaged by debris, they'll usually say 3. The correct answer is 2. Remind them of THAT, however, and you are immediately labelled a 9/11 truther or conspiracy nut.

The "truth" may well be, however, that most Americans simply don't want to think about what really happened at World Trade Center 7 and elsewhere on 11 September 2001 because it forces them to question either (a) the laws of physics and logic or (b) what they were told happened by their government. The cognitive dissonance generated is too much for their media-brainwashed minds to handle, so they block it out and you along with it.

“The 99%” Redefined: 99 Percent of Americans Know Little About the Dangers of AUMF 2001 & NDAA 2012

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According to an #AumfHungerStrike activist 99% of Americans have no idea they can be detained indefinitely without charge under NDAA 2012 Section 1021, and then executed without trial under AUMF 2001.

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#J28 A Year Later

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Its January 29th 2013. I have been occupied for close to 500 days now, with no end in sight. A year ago yesterday was the one year anniversary of “Move In Day” in Oakland, which was a day that changed my life. I cannot believe it has been a year already since I felt the sting of teargas for the first time, was stunned by flash grenades, and ran from “less lethal” rounds. I went to Oakland, already well aware of the atrocities activists were facing, and had historically faced in this city. I knew about Scott Olsen, I knew about the violent evictions, multiple targeted arrests, and non stop political repression of the citizens of Oakland. As much as you can read about it, look at pictures, watch streams and videos of it, you really don’t know what it is like, until you face it yourself. And when you do, it changes you, it affects you on so many levels, and each person in such a unique way, it is hard to capture.

Everybody's Home: A New Movement For Fighting Eviction [counterpunch]

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 Article Originally Published at www.counterpunch.org

Everybody's Home

A New Movement for Fighting Eviction

by LESLIE RADFORD

In the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Van Nuys in northeast Los Angeles, houseless people like JoJo have barricaded themselves for more than ninety days inside the property line of the home of Hernandez family, aspiring to the fabled “middle-class,” to prevent the family’s imminent foreclosure eviction.

Point of Clarification: OLA Political Autonomy

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It has come to our attention that occupylosangelesnews.org, a platform run by Mitch Ward, has issued an ‘endorsement issue’ calling for the reelection of Barack Obama. This platform claims to be “the news of Occupy LA from Occupy LA media live from the ground.” However this is not the case, he has not participated actively or horizontally with the movement and has completely managed the content produced and the agenda set by his paper- at this point implying the position of Occupy Los Angeles’s on the upcoming 2012 elections.

Divide and Conquer in America - 2012! (A Poem of Protest by a 74-Year-Old Great-Grandmother)

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Divide and Conquer in America - 2012!

HISTORIC OPPRESSORS WITH INNOCUOUS NAMES

By: Alice Connally Fisk ( AFisk10302@aol.com )

 

The generic word "oppressor" is rarely heard today

their game's the same but the label itself is very much passé.

Autonomy and Accountability

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This blog contains opinions and arguments that may cause action to be taken. Please be advised.

June 17th was the the 9 month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Most of the world outside of occupy is not aware of this, as the Main Stream Media (MSM) keeps pounding it into their heads that "Occupy is dead".  But this is not the way it looks to many on the ground, as we see what happens day to day, we follow the writings, the live streams, the blogs, and tweets of other occupiers all over the world. Unfortunately most of the world outside Occupy does not follow, or might not even know these things exist. They don't see us on what MSM calls "News" so out of sight, out of mind. There isn't a great amount of media coming out of the occupations, generally because we are really busy with what we are doing, and we always could use more help.

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