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Activists In DC Identify Long-Term Police Protest Infiltrator

August 6, 2013 Mike Elk, www.inthesetimes.com , ,
Lacy MacAuley, an activist and media manager for the Institute for Policy Studies, has suspected for the past several years that a protester named “Missy” was an undercover cop. “Missy” seemed to be at every protest, but no one knew her. However, MacAuley had no way of proving her suspicions. Then, in November of 2012, MacAuley was at a bar on U Street when a friend recommended that she follow a Twitter account of a funny person with the handle @snufftastic. MacAuley immediately identified the user in the photographs as the person she knew as “Missy.” The user Tweeted frequently about the daily grind of being a police officer in DC. MacAuley says she then spotted Rizzi as “Missy” at an anti-Keystone pipeline protest at the Canadian Embassy on March 21, 2013. That was when MacAuley decided to approach Jeffrey Light, an attorney who works on police misconduct issues, with her suspicions. Light and his law partner Sean Canavan began searching for evidence to peg Rizzi as an undercover police officer.

Video: What Breaking Bad REALLY Tells Us About The Drug War

August 6, 2013 Brave New Foundation and Drug Policy Alliance, www.vimeo.com , ,
Is the show just entertaining TV, or badass political commentary? This video was produced by Beyond Bars (a project of Brave New Foundation) in partnership with the Drug Policy Alliance. WARNING: this video shows violence. Which makes sense, given what the War on Drugs has brought to our communities. Violence, corruption, enriched drug lords. Want to end the violence? End the war on drugs.

US Double Standards On Free Expression

August 5, 2013 Daya Gamage, www.asiantribune.com , , ,
The story of protests in Weliweriya, Wall Street, Bahrain and the different responses of the United States to each one of them. The US reacts differently to dissent in its own company, allied countries and other countries. The September 2011 Wall Street March ( New York financial district) was a massive gathering to oppose and denounce the manner in which 'corporate America' is making the lives of the middle class and the working people miserable. This was a wide expression of peoples strength to show their displeasure toward the indifference of big corporations. But to the amazement of the free world the freedom of expression was suppressed on the soil of the land that professes civic rights to the wider world.

Video: Dream Defenders Take Testimony On School To Prison Pipeline

August 4, 2013 Staff, www.dreamdefenders.org , , ,
The Dream Defenders, a group of student activists in Florida, aren't deterred by Gov. Rick Scott's refusal to hold a special session on the Stand Your Ground Law that allows individuals like George Zimmerman to claim self-defense. Instead, they are taking their cause - and Trayvon Martin's memory - straight to the lawmakers themselves. Watch as they stand their own ground to repeal the controversial protection law that begets violence. The Florida Black Caucus announces their support for the Dream Defenders. And, the Dream Defenders began to take expert testimony on the school to prison pipeline, for-profit prisons and other racially unfair criminal justice issues. They plan to issue a report for the legislature on their concerns with racism and profiteering in the justice system.

Police Chief In Pennsylvania Allies With Private Militia

August 2, 2013 Josh Horwitz, www.huffingtonpost.com ,
What is happening in Gilberton should be a warning to all those who value our basic, inalienable rights to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." The story there centers around Police Chief Mark Kessler, who drew attention by posting a series of profanity-lacedvideos to YouTube in which he attacks "libtards," fires fully automatic assault weapons, and threatens, "If you f***ing maniacs want to turn this into an armed revolt, knock yourselves out." On Wednesday, during a meeting of the Gilberton Borough Council to consider disciplinary actions against Kessler, his supporters answered his call. While a State Police helicopter circle overhead, more than 100 people gathered outside the borough hall, many of them armed. In the end the chief was suspended 30 days without pay.

Rules for Recording Cops and other Authority Figures

July 31, 2013 Carlos Miller, www.photographyisnotacrime.com , ,
The First Amendment guarantees us all Freedom of the Press, meaning we have as much as right to to report on and disseminate the news as professional journalists, even if we’ve never set foot in a newsroom. In fact, it’s absolutely crucial that we step up to fill the void left by the mainstream media. And we can begin doing that by recording police when they interact with the public, including our very own interactions such as traffic stops. The goal is to not just record possible instances of police abuse, but to remind these officers that we are well aware of our rights to record them in public where they have no expectation of privacy (as they do to us). Here are ten rules that will help citizen journalists film police and others in positions of authority.

‘Fruitvale Station,’ a Landmark

July 29, 2013 Julianne Hing, www.colorlines.com ,
“For me, the most important conversation that is happening now is how do we grow this beyond any individual young man into a larger campaign against police terror? How do we come together to create enough pushback … so they know they can’t get away with it anymore?” Brooks said. Almost five years on from Grant’s death, Brooks, who lives in West Oakland, still avoids the Fruitvale BART station as much as she can. “It is and forever will be where Johannes Mehserle executed Oscar Grant.” Every year on the anniversary of his death, Grant’s family and community gather at Fruitvale for a remembrance of his life. It’s a tradition now. “But what ends up happening,” Blackmon says, “is there’s always five more mothers standing next to [Grant’s mother] Wanda, every year.”

Video: The Dream Defenders Take Over Florida Capital

July 28, 2013 Staff, www.youtube.com , , ,
Here's a video from the Dream Defenders who have taken over Florida Capitol to demand the #TrayvonMartinAct. Since Tuesday morning, July 16, the Dream Defenders have maintained a presence at the Capitol for an extended stay to apply pressure and demand that Governor Rick Scott call for a special session of legislature to address issues related to the environment in Florida that led to this tragedy and injustice. Dream Defenders are pushing for what they are calling the 'Trayvon Martin Act' which addresses the repeal of Stand Your Ground, racial profiling, and the war on the youth.

Cop Who Pepper-Sprayed Seeks Worker’s Comp for Psychaitric Injury

July 27, 2013 Staff, www.AP.org
The former police officer who pepper-sprayed students during an Occupy protest at the University of California, Davis is appealing for worker’s compensation, claiming he suffered psychiatric injury from the 2011 confrontation. John Pike has a settlement conference set for Aug. 13 in Sacramento, according to the state Department of Industrial Relations’ website. Pike was fired in July 2012, eight months after a task force investigation found that his action was unwarranted. Online videos of him and another officer casually dousing demonstrators with pepper spray went viral, sparking outrage at UC Davis leaders. The images became a rallying symbol for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Dream Defenders In Governor’s Office Being Denied Food, Water

July 27, 2013 Staff, www.popularresistance.org , , ,
Perhaps in reaction to the growing support for the Dream Defenders, the governor is now denying access to food and water for the occupiers, which includes a child of 8 years. According to their tweets, staff at the Capitol are telling the Dream Defenders that if they want food and water, they will have to go outside to get it. Of course, the occupiers know that they are not likely to be allowed to return. Supporters are gathering outside of the Capitol to demand that the Dream Defenders be allowed to eat and drink. They urge people to call the Capitol and the Governor's mansion.

Urban Surveillance State Prototype In Oakland

July 25, 2013 Mark Karlin, www.truth-out.org ,
According to the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), the City of Oakland will likely soon approve the acceptance of additional federal funding to complete a citywide surveillance center based on anti-terrorist models. However, its mission will be expanded to include public surveillance that extends to general law enforcement. If one recalls, this would have likely included the violent suppression of the Occupy Movement in Oakland and port worker strikes in the recent past . . . One can speculate that there is a high degree of probability that the Oakland Domain Awareness Center will cooperate with the San Francisco area fusion center. One doesn't need to be conspiratorial to see how a national surveilance system is incrementally developing.

Protesters At Florida Capitol: ‘We Stay Until We Win’

July 24, 2013 Kathleen McGrory, www.miamiherald.com , , ,
When the young activists known as the Dream Defenders marched into Gov. Rick Scott’s office last week, few observers expected the group to attract much attention. But seven days later, the Dream Defenders have proven hard to ignore. What began as a modest protest has morphed into a week-long occupation of the Florida Capitol. The organizers, most of whom are college students and young professionals, say they are prepared to stay for weeks or even months — as long as it takes for Scott to call a special session on racial profiling and the state’s controversial Stand Your Ground law.

Cornel West Responds to Barak Obama on Trayvon Martin

July 23, 2013 Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org , , , , ,
A black president can’t get too close to black folk, because Fox News, with their reactionary self in oft—in so many instances, will attack them, and that becomes the point of reference? No. If they’re going to be part of the legacy of Martin King, Fannie Lou Hamer and Ella Baker and the others, then the truth and justice stuff that you pursue, you don’t care who is coming at you. But, no, this black liberal class has proven itself to be too morally bankrupt, too hypocritical, and indifferent to criminality—Wall Street criminality, no serious talk about enforcement of torturers and wiretappers under the Bush administration. Why? Because they don’t want the subsequent administration to take them to jail. Any reference to the hunger strike of our brothers out in California and other places, dealing with torture? Sustained solitary confinement is a form of torture. And we won’t even talk about Guantánamo. Force-feeding, torture in its core...

I’m Accused Of Being A Racist

July 23, 2013 NJ Weedman, www.njweedman , , ,
I’m absolutely not a racist – but when I speak out about racism I’m accused of being a racist.This was written for my friend James XXXXXX who was reacting to my facebook comments on the George Zimmerman trial and asked me what the fuck happened to me he said, “I’d became a black racist overnight Archie Bunker style”. LOL wow, really for speaking about the incident that totally looks racist to me and millions of other African-Americans. So I decided to write this to all the marijuana legalization activist I have.

Mothers’ Organization Raises Awareness About Police Killings & Violence

July 22, 2013 Luke Broadwater, www.baltimoresun.com
Daphne Alston understands why so many people are outraged by the killing of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed Florida teen shot by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman. She just doesn't get why nobody seems to care about the deaths of many other unarmed young men — especially those in similar situations closer to home, such as Christopher Brown, 17, who died in an altercation with a Baltimore County police officer. Alston, 54, and her group, Mothers of Murdered Sons and Daughters, say they're trying to galvanize the community around those killed locally. An annual event the organization hosts — called Tariq's 5th Memorial Cookout, named after Alston's son — drew more than 100 people Sunday to Turner Station Park. In response to the death, Alston and Brown are working with state Del. Jill Carter to pass a bill that would require better training of police. "In a state where we have repealed the death penalty, we cannot allow it to be administered extrajudicially with impunity," Carter said Sunday.
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